Love in Isolation
The year is 2021. Jacob is happily married, a devoted husband to Nina, and a father to his three children. He works at a modest job as a factory worker in the Midwest United States, somewhere in the…
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We Just Did The 40 Chicken McNugget Challenge
It was a fun way to bond with my son
“How much are the 40-piece nuggets?”
I felt guilty when the question rolled off my lips into the intercom in the McDonald’s drive-through, but it was too late. My son’s ears already perked up in the passenger seat.
“$11.99.”
My thirteen-year-old son and I were too late for the Breakfast Deluxe, and the question about the 40-piece McNuggets was a Freudian slip. It probably entered into my thoughts because a few weeks ago I recorded my son doing a 20-nugget challenge for his YouTube channel.
Now that I’d uttered the word 40 McNuggets … and he heard it there was no backing out.
“I want to do the 40-nugget challenge.”
I looked over at him and he was serious. He wanted to eat 40 nuggets all by himself!
I never imagined these kinds of scenarios when I became a parent long ago. I though we might talk basketball, movies, video games, not about 40-nugget challenges. I didn’t think my teenage son would one day try to convince me to let him do a 40-McNugget challenge because he saw some kid doing it on their YouTube channel.
“Mom would kill me if I let you eat 40 nuggets.”
He persisted.
“I’ll blame the challenge on myself.”
I explained the meaning of the word accomplice and how you can be guilty of a crime and sent to prison when someone else does a crime if you happen to be around at the time it occurs.
“I’m the one buying the chicken nuggets.”
“No, no, no. I’m doing the 40-nugget challenge.”
He was adamant about doing this crazy thing.
“Do you know where Latarian is now?”
“Jail.”
He gave up trying to persuade me. Logic won.
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