My 17 year old son had been dating the same girl for several months. This was his first “real” girlfriend. I figured that sooner or later they were going to be having sex. He’d been given many talks about love, sex, disease, pregnancy – the whole ball of wax; so to speak, from the time he was old enough to start asking questions. I felt confident that he would do the right thing especially when it came to protection. Condoms had been discussed and his responsibility. I didn’t think that I had to go into the minute details about condoms.
He took his girl to see the fireworks that 4th of July. We live in a coastal state and the display was done by the ocean. Long lonely stretches of beach, night, blankets … you get the picture.
The following morning, I was picking up discarded clothing from the bathroom floor when a small black package fell out of his pants pocket. I scooped it up and glanced at it before tossing it away. There was a happy little condom man smiling up at me announcing in day-glo color that inside was a “Glow in the Dark” condom made in China!
When my son made his appearance later that morning, I mentioned that I didn’t think using a condom with questionable origins was very smart and in the future he should use better judgment when selecting his protection because it was very important.
Unfazed that I had found the wrapper but was also lecturing on the quality of his condom and that I now knew he wasn’t a virgin, his reply was, “Mom, it WAS the 4th of July!”
Sometimes you just have to admit defeat and hope for the best.
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