I just read this story. Imagine if this were your father. How would you, as a kid, feel?

[Stinky The Clown]

Here's the story. I am happy to post a link, but will do that later.

For Christmas, the wife bought son a leather jacket with a hoodie. He would come out school with the thing pulled over his head and I would give him hell about it. Then one day I told how it was, "If I see that thing pulled over your head one more time when it's not super cold or raining, I'm going to cut it off with my pocket knife right here in front of all your schoolmates." I haven't seen it up since.

He used to meet me on one side of the school parking lot....then he got a serious girlfriend and started waiting on the other side so he could get more time with the girlfriend. I waited and worked my way through the long line to that side one day and to top things off, he acted like he didn't see me sitting there. I waited awhile then just sat down on the horn for several seconds....embarrassed the hell out of him. All the kids were dying laughing. He still waits on that side but he comes to me before I get that far down the line now.....

[arcane1]

1. I suppose it would depend on my age

but my feeling would probably be like any other normal kid who has parents around while hanging with my friends.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I would be royally pissed off!

Sounds like a pretty controlling father. Teenagers do not thrive when their parents micro-manage them like this. The parents should be letting go, allowing the kid some leeway in making their decisions.

If I were that kid, I would be looking hard for some other way to get home.

[HopeHoops]

3. Just tell him to put a rubber on it and find his own way home.

I'm not kidding.

[HappyMe]

4. He can walk home.

I would also get him some rubbers. As far as the hoody goes, the dad probably has a good reason for telling him to leave the hood down.

edit to add -
As a kid, I might be glad that at least I have a dad that cares enough. Most teens are never happy with and are embarassed by their parents. No matter what.

[PassingFair]

5. At least he didn't shoot up his computer...

[aptal]

6. Control freak it what he is...

Kids shouldn't be raised under this sort of harassment. And we wonder why kids grow up to be like Zimmerman with so much built up anger.

[geardaddy]

7. Why didn't he tell his kid the reason why he wanted the hood down

and let the kid make his own decision?

What an asshole father IMO.