<p>I just received one of those phone calls that a parent does not want to receive. That started me thinking. What are some of the more bizarre actual calls you have received from your child? <a href=“Please%20don’t%20include%20tragic%20phone%20calls.”>b</a>**</p>
<p>Actual phone calls received from S1 and S2:</p>
<ul>
<li>“Can I build a catapult in the backyard?”</li>
<li>“I just hugged a tree on the ski slope. Should I take ibuprofen for the pain?”</li>
<li>“I just got rear-ended in my truck. Again.”</li>
<li>“I was stalked by a mountain lion at the end of my hike. I threw stones at him.”</li>
<li>“I chased a bear today. I threw stones at him.”</li>
<li>“I have a flat tire. How do I change a tire? It’s OK: I just googled ‘How to Change a Tire’ on the internet.”</li>
<li>“Come and pick me up from college. I’ve resigned.”</li>
</ul>
<p>– I just had an accident on the interstate. My car got spun round and is facing the wrong way and there are cars coming towards me real fast. What do I do?</p>
<p>– Can you mail me a knife? A really big knife.</p>
<p>D-Which is better for a sore knee, Tylenol or Aleve?
Me-How did you hurt it?
D-Eighteen flights of stairs.
Me-Why didn’t you take the elevator?
D-Oh. The fire.</p>
<p>Wayoutwestmom…please share with us… What did you do? Is your D2 fine?</p>
<p>D1/I will take the bus in Los Angeles.
Me/No, please take a Taxi.
D1/The public bus cost only 25 cents.
Me/Please take a taxi
D1 took the bus and it was fine
Me in panic/Learned how to text; texted 10 times to see if D1 arrives well to the interview.</p>
<p>mafool - I didn’t want to take away the fun of it by adding this, but she is actually taking stage combat this semester and the class meets on Saturdays. I think she’s having too much fun with her broadsword! The professor was going to order some more for the department and let the kids know he can get a quantity discount on ten or more, so she wants a broadsword (I wonder how her roommates are going to react to that?).</p>
<p>“I couldn’t call you til this morning because they wouldn’t let me out to make a phone call.”</p>
<p>In response to my having spent all night, when my S was 17, frantically calling everyone I could think of when he never came home. I’ve never been so glad (or so furious) to hear my S spent the night in jail. Don’t worry, he turned out great! He’s a grown man now.</p>
<p>Very late night call from son- “The Penn security guards said we should carry guns. What do you think about that?” My daughter said to him “Why did you drunk dial Mom?”</p>
<p>“Do you know any lawyers in Roanoke, Virginia?” </p>
<p>Okay , not a call from one of my children , but this one was just as bad from our nanny in a very shaky voice …
" where is your fire extinguisher ? "</p>
<p>7:00am on a Saturday morning caller ID shows our county government. The woman on the other end wanted to know if I was the mother of S1. She told me I needed to go pick up his car at a location 2 miles from our home. When I asked of S1 was okay, she told me she could not give me any information. I never have been so scared in my entire life and I should have been stopped for speeding on my way; I was sure he was dead on the side of the road. Everything was okay when I arrived; the kind police officer had called dispatch to have them contact me. In the future, I wish they would give a bit more information; at least in my case it would have prevented a near heart attack!</p>
<p>2 AM call, been on campus less than 48 hours. He didn’t have a car, so I knew (OK, I was pretty sure~) he wasn’t driving:</p>
<p>“Uh, Mom, can you refuse to take the breathalyzer test??” </p>
<p>…House party, noise violation, police showed up, kid who answered door offered them entrance, some of the guys jumped out the 2nd story window and ran…Mine was hiding under the bed, cops were pounding on the door, giving them 5 minutes to come out…</p>
<p>Turns out you CAN refuse the breathalyzer, no charges were filed, scared the pajabbers out of my kid! </p>
<p>{Why do kids voluntarily take a breathalyzer? Isn’t there a law about incriminating one’s self? Why don’t they just lower the drinking age??!!}</p>
<p>Phonecall from oldest son, who recently moved out on his own:
Son: “Dad, get Mom on the phone, too. How would you guys feel if I went skydiving?”
Dad: “Uhhhhh…”
Mom: “Well…”
Son: “It’s OK, I did the jump yesterday but I wanted to hear what you would say.”</p>
<p>“I dyed my hair blue. Actually, not all of it. Just in places. Is that OK? It is supposed to wash out in a couple weeks…”</p>
<p>and on a regular basis:</p>
<p>“Um, Mom?..I ran out of money. I am literally down to zero. Can you please put ten or twenty dollars in my account? Like, today? Like, maybe in the next hour or so? I am so sorry! I know I am such a pain! So, um, do you think you could do that?”</p>