"The Unplugged Challenge" - Sex Stories

"The Unplugged Challenge"

... Povich.” That was one for the books. When he had one of his regular episodes on cheating husbands, Mom demanded Dad take a lie detector test to prove he hadn’t been unfaithful during their marriage. He finally told her he’d be happy to, as long as they got a paternity test on the k**s, too. She was instantly offended at the accusation, which made her step back and realize how much she must have offended him, too. Mom took the point and calmed down, one of the rare times Dad had been able to cut her off early before she got too crazy. I hoped whatever she had in mind, this might be another of those times. “Let’s just hope it’s not Jerry Springer,” Krista said, setting Dad up for the old f****y joke. “I hope not. I don’t think I’m ready for your mother to become a transsexual stripper, or to sl**p with her cousin,” Dad said. “Don’t make jokes. You know how I hate that Springer. And this is nothing like those other times.” She took a breath, and then said, “I was watching Oprah…” We collectively groaned. Another f****y joke was that Mom’s queen was Oprah Winfrey. She bought all the books for her Book Club, and supported the causes Oprah supported. She even voted Obama because of Oprah. “But it was about something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. The show just gave me the idea.” We waited for the bomb to drop, what crazy idea Oprah had given her. “I really think this f****y needs some more togetherness. We’re drifting apart, with our cell phones and computers.” She ...

... snatched the phone out of Krista’s hands. My s****r had been racing her thumbs over the keypad, not listening. “And your texting. We’ve forgotten about the basics. Today on Oprah they had a f****y. A lot like ours. They didn’t have time for each other. What they did was they gave up the television, the Net, and all their cell phones for a week. It was called the…” She struggled to remember. That was just like Mom too, get all excited about an idea but forget the specifics. “The No Net Challenge. No, the Unplugged Challenge. Something like that. But I think we need to do the same thing.” No computers for a week? “That’s crazy!” I said. “What are we supposed to do with ourselves?” “We connect, Bobby. We talk about what’s going on in our lives. We could even play board games. You remember how we used to play board games when you were young? It was fun.” I did not recall that at all, and in fact didn’t believe it was true. “Sounds pretty lame, Mom. You can’t take our phones and stuff away,” Krista whined. “That’s like our whole social life.” “No, it isn’t, you just think it is. This f****y’s a kind of social life too, and we’ve all been seriously neglecting it. I blame myself as much as you, but it’s you who are going to pay the price for it.” She looked at the two of us. “Look at you, you used to be inseparable, and now you barely talk. In a few years you’ll be out of the house and on your own lives. I don’t want the two of you winding up as the kind of siblings whose only contact is ...