#93 Teenage Standard Time
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My children and I live in different time zones. They live in Teenage Standard Time and I live in the real world.
In the real world, deadlines have mass and momentum and cannot be ignored. Whenever I get a new deadline it starts making a sound like the music from the documentary film Jaws in which unsuspecting swimmers were viciously attacked by a great white cello player.
Take the annual United States Tax Day deadline. Every year on April fifteenth, I’m required to file a an extensive set of documents and a distressingly large check with the Internal Revenue Service. (Historical aside: The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 and I think it’s fitting that America commemorates this tragic event by soaking the rich…)
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NOTES:
- For the record, let me state that the views expressed in this article in no way reflect on my actual flesh-and-blood children. They both do a splendid job of keeping up with their deadlines…but that wouldn’t have been a very funny essay.
- If you’d like to understand Daily Saving Time better (and who wouldn’t!), check out the Wikipedia article at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_Savings_Time - If you have a teen who needs to get organized, check out Organizing from the Inside Out for Teens at:
http://www.organizedteens.com.
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Hi Kevin!
This one had me laughing hard. Though my son is only 10, I can him drifting closer to TST (teenage standard time) everyday. Especially with task akin to taking out the trash. Great show!
Hi Kevin. I attended the Podcast Camp today on March 15, 2008 in SLC. I found your name on the registration and listened to your story about your wife’s “bad” memory. hehe ;o) It was funny and enjoyable. Hey, I teach at a junior high school and was wanting to know if you would consider coming and talking to our students sometime. Maybe telling them a story or two and sharing your talents? I hope to be able to meet and talk to you sometime soon.
Jerry
Hi Jarry–
Thanks for the kind words and the invitation. I’d be honored to talk to your kids. E-mail me at kevin ~at] shortcummingsaudio [dot] com and we can work out the details.
Congratulations! Just 14 out of 78 humor submissions were included in Humor Carnival 2, and this was one of them. Thanks so much for your delightful contribution!