Oh, the teenage years. Everyone should have a teenager in their home.

I have a teenage daughter who is ‘going out' with her first ‘real' boyfriend.

Recently, my daughter had been to her boyfriend's house with a group of classmates and it was time to pick her up. As we drove away from his house there were a group of boys walking towards his house. She thought she recognized them as boys that her boyfriend planned to see that same evening.

We took the long way home since it was a nice evening and it lead us past a group of teenage boys at another house. As I looked in my rearview mirror I noticed that my daughter seemed quite interested in them, but didn't want to call too much attention to it. But, yet she asked if we could go back by there.

I drove by slowly and she rolled down the window. She hollers at one of the boys she thinks she recognizes, "Hi, Ryan!" She then tells me that she spotted her boyfriend in the group of 3-4 boys. The only problem is that he isn't Ryan. I asked her if it ever occurred to her that it might have been better to either holler out "Hi, guys", or to at least mention her boyfriend's name instead.

That was the first "oh gosh".

When we got home she decided she should call her boyfriend and apologize. When he answered she quickly blurted out, "I'm sorry I called out Ryan's name instead of yours". His response wasn't quite what she expected to hear. "What on earth are you talking about?"

That was the second "oh gosh".

That's when she realized he wasn't one of the boys at the other house. And she just confessed unnecessarily.

In talking to him further, she also now realized that none of the boys at that house were Ryan. So, now there were a group of boys who MAY have recognized her and wondered why she was hollering ‘hi Ryan".

That was the third "oh gosh".

Now, anytime we're together and I see a group of guys, I holler "Hi Ryan" just to embarrass her.

I think the "oh gosh's" will go on for awhile.