what is it with teenagers today?

I'm so angry I could spit. It starts yesterday when I'm doing laundry and I notice ink on my sons school shirt. It doesn't come out and it's right in front. This is part of a school uniform I might add that costs 25 dollars a shirt and which he must wear every school day.

So I say to him, "Could you be more careful with ink around your white school shirt, the ink doesn't come out you know."

"I told him not to do it, " he replies.

What? A kid at school did this and he allowed him to mark his shirt? I told him I'd send a bill to school that this 'friend' can deliver to his mother and see if they will pay for a new shirt.

So that was the first incident, the second is just an illustration of the stupidity of youth. I ordered pictures from his school and he deigned to give them to me this morning. I had bought a collage which is 5 different poses and sizes on one paper in colour and black and white which is framable, and another of magnets for the fridge to give away to far away Aunts and Uncles enclosed in Christmas cards.

I got the pictures but the collage was damaged. It had one corner (picture) cut out of it! I said, "What did you do?". I was so angry, I told him his allowance was paying for another one. It even said on the flap of the envelope that contained the pictures: "WAIT! Please do not open this envelope until you are home and can share your portraits with your family." Obviously, he didn't see that warning. So I'm ordering another one at vast expense, which he will pay for, maybe he'll think before he does something idiotic? Is that too much to ask?