Results tagged “boxer shorts” from Birmingham Mail - Bad Dad

MY ELDEST lad wanted a new pair of jeans at the weekend so naturally I was treated to around two hours of charm, which included tea making and general compliments.

When we went to look at the items in question they were black and seemingly made of cardboard...in fact, like the kind of jeans that I used to wear as a kid that stood up on their own.

Just one difference - the price tag of £60.

We decided against the purchase, largely because I refused to spend that amount of money on jeans that always seem to end up halfway down his backside, with his (designer) boxers showing.

God I feel old!

It was clearly extremely unreasonable of me to expect 14-year-old Nick to have opened his curtains by 4.30 in the afternoon.

When asked why this languid lump reclining on his bed in boxer shorts wanted to spend his day in the dark clothes strewn mess of his room, his answer floored me.

With echoes of the sixties he glanced nonchalantly up from his book to declare lazily: "Dad, get off my case - it's just the way I roll."

The way I roll is to stop pocket money until his room resembles something a human being might want to live in.