By Kyle Frazier
Round Table editor

“Yeah mom/dad, I told you I had to go to this thing.”

It’s a phrase that has been adopted by many teenagers in this day and age. However, I would bet money that about ninety percent of them have told their parents absolutely nothing.

I am guilty of committing this very action. Given, of course, the fact that I’m a pretty darn good convincer, most of the time it works. However, my parents have caught on, seeing as how they don’t really buy my stories of them forgetting anymore.

I have been with friends while they spoke to their parents on the phone. The conversation went something like this:

“Hey Billy Bob, where are you? You were supposed to ride the bus home.”

“Mom, I told you I was hanging with Topanga today!”

“What? You said no such thing.”

“Mom, you know they say the memory is the first thing to go.”

“Billy Bob! You just wait until your father gets home.”

“Whatever mom…”

I usually leave and find something else to do at this point. Seriously though, do kids really think that, by suggesting they have already told their parents, that they will magically remember a non-existent conversation?

I am partial to telling one parent that I told the other one, but that rarely works either.

I guess we teenagers will have to find a new way to make our parents believe our fabricated memories and stories. It shouldn’t be too hard.