<p>Good point, mimk6 about this thread being for calls we <em>don’t</em> want to get! We’ve had plenty of those from S2 but they aren’t as funny. Like a couple of months ago…</p>
<p>S2: the mechanic said there was no oil in the car and now it needs a new engine</p>
<p>not. funny. at. all.</p>
<p>All from the same DD:</p>
<p>Mom, I cannot find my purse, can you call and cancel my ATM/CC?</p>
<p>Mom, I lost my wallet in the club, can you call and cancel my ATM/CC?</p>
<p>Mom, I was sitting in a coffee shop and now my wallet is gone, can you call and cancel…</p>
<p>etc etc etc</p>
<p>Mom, I was at a thing and now I cannot find my keys and my roommate is gone for the weekend</p>
<p>Mom, my bike is gone- it was locked and now it is gone, I went and looked by all my classes, in case I forgot, but it is gone.</p>
<p>DD grew up in a very small safe town where people not only don’t steal, they actually look out for each other. She has had her wallet or purse taken in coffee shops, in clubs, and some one actually broke in and stole items from the kitchen at a college friend’s house.</p>
<p>Here’s hoping she is a bit more city smart now ;)</p>
<p>The worst lost item was when a different DD in Europe could not find her passport, lucky for her the clerk at the train station kept it when she had purchased her student train pass, if he’d turned it in to lost and found t would have taken about a week to make it’s way through the system, which would have been too late to make it to her next country!</p>
<p>Friend’s son went backpacking in Europe for 3 weeks with his gf after 1st year of college. Mom said to him, repeatedly, “S, please do NOT lose your passport.” So the first thing that happened when he landed in Switzerland and had to change planes? He left his passport at the security check point. This was the call that the parent did NOT get… he dealt with it on his own (a full day sitting in a US Consulate) rather than call Mom and face the “I told you so!!!” music, ha ha. She didn’t learn about it until after he came home.</p>
<p>To timely, a few years from now you will be able to find that funny, maybe even torture your son with the story when he has kids of his own. One of my roommates had no idea a car needed oil, and did the same thing with her car in college.</p>
<p>Had to have this phone call with my mom, yikes!</p>
<p>me: Hi mom! You should sit down.
M: what happened?
me: remember how my finger would sometimes get really swollen after band practice?
M: yes…
me: Well, it turns out I have a tumor, but they don’t think its cancerous! If I have surgery Friday morning will I still be able to come home for Thanksgiving break?</p>
<p>“Mom, I left my laptop sitting in my room. (at home) Can you ship it to me?”</p>
<p>She felt just terrible about her forgetfulness. For what it cost to ship that thing UPS with insurance, it could have had its OWN seat on the plane.</p>
<p>S: “Ive contracted with my ROTC unit which means I will be going into the Army when I graduate.”</p>
<p>Me: “I know you’ve been talking about this, but yikes!”</p>
<p>S: “Yeah. And I’m not going to be getting any scholarship money either because I started too late.”</p>
<p>Me: "$@&<em>! Oh this makes it doubly good! $@&</em> !</p>
<p>S1(at college on NROTC scholarship): I’m think I’m going to quit Navy.</p>
<p>Me: WHHAATTT???</p>
<p>S1: I’ve just spent a month on a ship and hated it. I can’t see myself spending my life driving around in a boat. I would get fat and out of shape.</p>
<p>note:S1 did not quit. He is currently serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy and is very glad he did not quit. However he is NOT driving around in a boat,lol.</p>
<p>From S1 when traveling in Italy: (3am call) “Hi, don’t get upset but my gf said I should let you know I was kidnapped at knife point last night and held for 6 hours. I’m okay, I just got scraped up when I jumped out of car trying to escape”.</p>
<p>From S2: “Uh, I’m in ER and you know I thought I had GI bug, well, they are taking me to surgery for emergency appendectomy”.</p>
<p>From d: “How long to you have to watch for signs of intracranial bleeding or concussion?”
Me: What happened!!!
D: Oh, I fell off horse on cross country course, he’s okay though.
Me: What about you?
D: Oh, just have a headache, but I need a new helmet, it’s cracked.</p>
<p>And any call that starts with, “don’t be mad, but…”</p>
<p>mkm56, wow. I think you win the prize.</p>
<p>“Mom, I shaved off part of my finger and I almost passed out from the pain and blood loss.” This from a child who had already once sliced off part of a fingerpad. She literally managed to have a freak accident with a razor that someone left on the bathroom counter.</p>
<p>Mine was today via text message from my S, which I got at 7:05 am: I broke my leg badly and may have to have surgery. 12:35 am. No surgery but out 4-6 weeks min. 1:35 am</p>
<p>crutches on campus</p>
<p>Call from daughter at 3 am ( she was driving with 3 friends back to school in NY from CA)- “I waited until we all passed our CT scans and had the neck restraints removed to call but the car flipped into a ditch outside Pittsburgh and is totalled and we’re stuck in front of the ER with nowhere to go!” Miraculously no one was hurt and my husband grabbed a red eye flight a few hrs later, rented a car and drove them all back to school.</p>
<p>Wow, longtimelurker, so glad they’re all okay!</p>
<h1>254 LTL :eek: Yikes.</h1>
<p>And we wonder why we have grey hairs…</p>
<p>No, I don’t wonder; I have earned each of mine. And I have never received a phone call like that!</p>
<p>D1 was studying abroad in India. She was travelling with a girlfriend when we got a phone call at 2am.</p>
<p>D1: Mom I think I need to go to the hospital. I’ve been throwing up on the train for the last 24 hours.</p>
<p>So she goes to the hospital and is admitted. We speak to her travelling buddy the next day.</p>
<p>Friend: Don’t worry, it’s clean. All the equipment is covered in plastic.</p>
<p>We speak to the administrator of the study abroad program.</p>
<p>Administrator: If I need to get to the hospital, I can be there quickly. It’s only 18 hours from here.</p>
<p>Me: I can get there in 18 hours too!</p>
<p>(D1 spent 3 days in the hospital suffering from Giardia. My dad (a surgeon) talked to her physician. Turns out the physician got his MD from Johns Hopkins. All was fine.)</p>
<p>Whew. ^^^^</p>