Blackbird wrote about how not to embarrass a 15-year-old. It reminded me of a story:

Yesterday, we took the boy (16.5 years of age, 6′6″ in height) to Best Buy to buy the girl a birthday present. He was mortifyingly embarrassed to be shopping for his sister with his parents. In a Best Buy. He’s lucky I didn’t drag him to Limited Too. He was dying a social death being forced to buy a present with is own money for his younger sister (10 tomorrow, 5′3″).

Later the same day . . . buying supplies for the BBQ at the Party Store, the same teenager donned a Viking helmet, making him 7′2″, grabbed an air horn from the clearance box, and roamed the store playing the horn. Guess who was embarrassed then (35.5, 5′11.75″)?

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