Vengeance is sweet

Well maybe not vengeance exactly but I must admit to enjoying watching my son interact with his daughters at dinner this evening.  It was my youngest granddaughter's birthday today and seven of us family members gathered for dinner at Bandido's in celebration. The two girls, ages 12 and almost 14, were getting a little silly and totally ignoring their dad's requests to settle down, act their age (they probably were doing that), put away their phones and calm down. Eventually they did calm down of course and I don't think anyone at other tables noticed anything but I was reminded forcefully of times when my son and his sister, at about that same age, would start acting up in restaurants. They would start giggling and pestering each other, in a fairly quiet but still bothersome way, until I couldn't take it any more. Then I would utter very similar words "Calm down, act your age."  O)f course I didn't have my son's ultimate tool of control.  He took their phones away.