When you have plans to go out with friends, it is really annoying when your parents drop some extra chores on you at the last minute.

That is what happened in this story, when a young man’s father told him that he had to stack a bunch of firewood and get it off the driveway before he went out with his friend.

The kid stacked the wood in front of the main door to the house, knowing that he would get in trouble when his dad finally got home. Shockingly, however, his mom took his side.

Read through the full story below and see exactly what happened to this very lucky kid.

Have to stack firewood before I can go see my friends? You got it.

Many years ago when I was a teenager I made plans with my friends to go out for a night.

Dad has a lot of work for him.

We planned this several days in advance and I’d told my parents what we were going to do.

However the day of, my dad came home from work for lunch and dumped a trailer load of pre-cut firewood in the driveway and told me I needed to stack it all.

He has something planned.

I reminded him that I was getting picked up in a few hours and would be gone the rest of the day/night, he told me “You’re not leaving until all that wood is stacked nicely and out of the driveway!”

‘Nicely and out of the driveway’ eh? Okay.

Dad is not going to be happy about this.

He left after that and I began my work. I grabbed the key for the front door to the house first and then started stacking the wood… in front of the back door. (our front door isn’t used very much to the point that my parents don’t even have keys to it on their everyday keychain, so I was blocking the back door)

I stacked it up to my chest and wide enough that it couldn’t be squeezed past to get to the door. Then I went in through the front door, grabbed my stuff for me and my friends waited for them and had a fun night.

He is expecting to be in trouble.

Came back the next morning to find half the wood pile re-stacked on the other side of the pile.

I was fully expecting to get chewed out, but when I got inside I saw my mum who chuckled and recounted what happened.

Wow, Mom is taking his side.

Basically, my mum and dad both got home at the same time and saw what I’d done, she was laughing, my dad was fuming, he told her what he’d told me to do.

She ripped into him for dumping the wood on me a few hours before he knew I would be leaving with friends (she was also mad because I’d done the right thing by her for telling them about what we were doing/where we were going and him doing that to me might discourage me from telling them in future).

Dad realized he was in the wrong.

He had to re-stack half the woodpile to get to the door and thankfully wasn’t upset about it the next day.

These types of situations rarely go so well, so it was a great story.

Take a look at what the people in the comments have to say about what happened.

This commenter says that his mom was very wise.

Dad shouldn’t have made him stack the wood, but at least he didn’t get upset.

This would have crossed the line.

Mom handled this perfectly.

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The parents handled the situation very well.

This is some award-winning parenting. Mom for doing the right thing, and dad for realizing he was in the wrong and not doubling down on his mistake.

This kid is lucky to have them, and he is also really funny for what he did.