[Euro-American Scum]

Now, here's the point I was promising to get to. It is one of the basic building blocks of human development to admit one's mistakes and to clean up after oneself. . . It was idiotic to think that any 17 year old, and especially Tommy, would behave responsibly in a beach house without his father or mother there.

I wonder if a tour in the Marine Corps might not help in this regard. But then, considering what a deadbeat this kid is, probably not.

[Sarah]

'It was idiotic to think that any 17 year old, and especially Tommy, would behave responsibly in a beach house without his father or mother there.....'

Which he then multiplied by cleaning it himself!

I agree, when a son is this age and this spoiled, (and especially with the father refusing to do the heavy lifting of parental authority), I don't see any other alternative than the marines.