Miles was a little hesitant to accept the invitation since he tends to faint at the word blood. He even fainted once during history class merely hearing the word "bloodlines". He decided to go anyways. Luckily for him, the topic didn't delve too much into aids. If you're wondering how a world aids conference wasn't so heavy on the topic of aids, let me explain:
As Miles explained, the first person to get up and tell their story was the head of the African American transgender society. She told the kids that aids wasn't her biggest burden since she was both African American and transgender, her biggest obstacles in life had to do with her skin color and gender choice; her aids took a backseat to all that. She was more a victim of racism and regressive bigotry than she was a victim of aids. She moved from that into a tirade about governor Rick Snyder and our education system telling an audience of 600 high school students that governor Rick Snyder doesn't care about education. Then someone in the back laughed which set her off on another five minute tirade about them not listening to her. All this as teachers sat alongside their high school students taking it all in.
I asked Miles, "did you get ANYTHING out of going to this aids conference?"
His response was priceless "Yea, I got a big bag full of condoms, some of them are flavored. I have mint condoms, coke flavored condoms, oral sex condoms, vagina condoms, I even got a condom holder...we all got big bags stuffed full of condoms".
He went to his room and came back with this massive bag of condoms, like hundreds of them.
I have never laughed so hard in my life.
Did I mention, he's a 10th grader?
Miles isn't big on pursuing the ladies quite yet, he seems more interested in where the Dow is closing these days and what value his IRA is holding. We recently told him we would pay for his car insurance on one condition...... as he nervously awaited what condition that would be. When Jeff told him, "no sex before marriage", he was so relieved. "That's it?!, That's all I have to do for you to cover my insurance?! No problem!!" Another gal chosen for the Aids conference trip is looking forward to going to a Christian university to study worship music. It occurred to me that this might not have been the best audience to receive giant bags
of flavored condoms.
So I almost lost it the next day when a friend of mine who counsels at the high school sent me this picture that was tweeted out to the entire high school about the field trip...yes thats Miles holding up a condom.........Oh Miles.....
