Who Would Have Teenagers?

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Let me tell you a story about someone else's teenagers...

It really is a catalog of events leading to much mischief...

My friend had gone out with her husband and left her two sons, 15 and 13, to their own devices. The elder one found out about a house party that he wanted to go to, so he called his mother and asked for permission to go, but she said: "No, not unless the parents call me and say that it is okay".

The 15-year-old decides to go anyway and walks the hour and a half required to get to the roughest part of my town, let's call it Bidley, without transport. When questioned later on this decision, he said that he was going to get the parents to call his Mom, when he got there.

Anyway, the result of this misdemeanor is that the 15 year old ended up in the accident and emergency department of the hospital the next morning, due to a very badly swollen face after getting into a fight.

He was accompanied by a hungover Mom, who had tried to enjoy herself the night before and had mistakingly put a little trust in the fact that her two teenage sons might behave for just one night!

One behaved, so maybe it is not the worse case scenario of what could have happened.

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Let's take a closer look at what happened....

The part of the story that remains the same is:

There was a young lad on his own who came out to one of the fish and chips shops in Bidley and he was recognized as one of the rugby players on an opposing team, who had got away with a crazy foul.

So someone thought it was a great idea to get him to say he was ’sorry’, but not only did he have to say he was sorry, but he had to get down on his knees and say sorry too.

There ended up being a group of people surrounding him and goading him, telling him to get on his knees, or else and he did what he was asked and ran off.

But, a few minutes later he returned, but guess what?

They obviously forgot the area of town that they were in and that they were 'strangers' in that part of town...

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As the boy came back with at least a whole a rugby team worth of guys (the number mentioned was 30, but that is one of the debatable parts) with bats, which had the end result of my friend’s son ending up in accident and emergency for getting beaten up and being involved in some way.

He is okay. Very swollen eye and, swollen mouth from a damaged tooth, but he will be okay.

A lesson learned? Maybe. Although which lesson I don't know. But at least one would be good.

This is where the different stories come in as to what exactly happened.

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Scenario 1

He was among the crowd of people who goaded the lad and made him say sorry and was pointed out as one of the people who were there, so the group went after him.

Scenario 2

He went to a house party (the one that their Mom said they couldn’t go to, unless she heard from the parents, but he went anyway), but the father came home and chased them all out into the street and they ended up being in the wrong place and wrong time and got involved in the fight. It has a ring of truth, but why would they be chased, unless they didn’t leave quietly and nicely, which he insisted he did.

Scenario 3

He joined in the affray because he was defending one his friends who was there at the time of the lad being made to say sorry and he didn’t want his friend to get hurt.

Scenario 4

It was a case of mistaken identity that they came after him because he was part of the group that bullied the boy on and they apologized to him after causing some damage to his face.

It makes me wonder what really happened and makes me dread the teenage years of my own two. They are girls, but in this day and age and DNA, goodness only knows what they will get up to!

What do you think really happened? I’ll guess we will never know, but if I had to guess I would say he might have been involved in the initial event with the young lad when he was on his own. However, he doesn’t want to admit that he was that cruel and was part of what initiated the whole situation.