<p>oh my. Out of turn, but I hope all the kiddies are on way to recovery.</p>
<p>Makes S"s lack of phone call since arriving in New haven on friday seem less serious.</p>
<p>Wow, some of you are getting pretty scary calls. Thanks for helping those of us whose kids DON’T call feel a bit better, even when we BEG & threaten them to call! Glad that somehow everyone manages to weather all of our amazing kids!</p>
<p>Do Facebook messages count? On Sunday, I couldn’t get in touch with S2 who is doing study abroad in New Zealand and posted this:</p>
<p>Me: I haven’t heard from Timelyson (he doesn’t have Internet in his dorm yet), but the tsunami was small as it was predicted to be, and there were no reported injuries in NZ, so I am not worried. However, if I find out he went to the beach to wait for the tsunami, I’m going to have to hurt him.</p>
<p>S2 comments (16 hours later): I didn’t even hear about it till afterwards.</p>
<p>About the same time he updated his status to:
Timelyson had a great time jumping off the Auckland Harbor Bridge yesterday. Bungee is freakin amazing!</p>
<p>Haha, Timely. That’s great.</p>
<p>Son 1, college freshman, 2nd semester, has MY car, 500 miles from home, 2:30 a.m. my time:</p>
<p>me: hello? (make it scratchy and weak, that voice)</p>
<p>Son: Mom! the police are here.</p>
<p>me: Are you hurt?</p>
<p>Son: No. I’m ok.</p>
<p>me: are you in jail?</p>
<p>Son (disgusted): no mom! </p>
<p>me: so why do you have to call me at 2:30 in the morning?</p>
<p>Son: A kid jumped onto the roof of the car at Walmart and crashed through it.</p>
<p>Never thought I’d hear that one.</p>
<p>Wow, did you ever find out WHY the kid jumped on your car? Did the jumper survive? That’s pretty startling! Glad your S was OK, but wow, 2:30 a.m!</p>
<p>Son: I just took a dose of my prescription medicine and then realized that I had already taken one. I guess this isn’t a problem, though.</p>
<p>The catch is that this WASN’T a phone call. It was an e-mail sent at midnight, which I didn’t receive until the next day.</p>
<p>I’m so happy to read some of these. I thought that my son was the only one to forget important things and lose passports and wallets. I feel better now.</p>
<p>Got this call one Saurday AM;
FRIEND: Have you see DD this morning?
ME: I think she’s upstairs sleeping.
FRIEND: Well I just go a call from the <nearby town=“”> police and they said my car is wrecked by the side of the road,and when I asked my D about she said that your daughter borrowed my car late last night . . ."
ME: How about if I call you back afte I talk to DD?</nearby></p>
<p>Turns out her daughter had given my DD they keys to friend’s car~ 3 AM and my DD drove to <town> to see a boy . . . hit a parked car . . .took advice from friends that best thing to do was to leave the car there and just come home . . . all without a license!!!</town></p>
<p>Call at 2 in the AM from DD who only applied to one school, the school she fell in love with, a huge midwest flagship university in <state> ~ 800 miles away from where we live, about 4 days into college, crying in the dorm bathroom: </state></p>
<p>“I can’t stay here; I want to come home; there’s nobody here but people from <state> . . .”</state></p>
<p>long time, I’m so glad they were not hurt badly! What a scare!</p>
<p>bugmom, crutches on campus is a real pain.</p>
<p>this was an email from DS who wanted suggestions for items needed for a first aid kit-</p>
<p>"Most likely injuries are going to be burns from the soldering irons
(molten tin/lead alloy at 150 to 850 degrees Fahrenheit) and cuts of
varying type and severity from all of our bladed things. Metal and wood
splinters are also a definite possibility, as are smashed thumbs and the
like from hammers. We should also probably have everything a basic home
kit would have.</p>
<p>So… what should we buy? Our budget can go up to $50 or so, but we would
like to put some of that towards safety glasses and the like."</p>
<p>Son is on an interview while I am doing a campus tour. After the tour, I noticed there was a missed call. Did not want to call son back as I might interrupt his interview. Yes, this would be the one time he would actually have his phone on. Had to wait patiently to get to the airport, hoping son would be there. I asked him, Oh, son, I got a missed call from you. What was it about? Son responds, Oh, I was wondering if you could tell me how to get to Blank Hall. But I got there okay. </p>
<p>This is an OOS school that I did not attend, had only been there once before, a campus of 28K students. How was I supposed to know how to get to Blank Hall? </p>
<p>I am totally expecting the phone call, Mom, where is my next class, I don’t have my schedule? He will be in college at least five hours away. </p>
<p>I’ve already had the, Where did you pack my underwear, three days into his summer away program. Waiting for that one in college as well.</p>
<p>Just reading the above post. Son will be an engineering major. Better get that first aid kit together!</p>
<p>1 am this morning the phone went off. H got the phone. He kept on saying, “Oh dear, that doesn’t sound good.” I said, “Did she get into a car accident? Give me the phone!” D1 was crying on the phone, “I have bedbugs in my bed.” Even in a semi-conscious state I said, “Take your comforter, put it in a dryer for 20 min, and sleep on the sofa. It’s really unpleasant, but you are not going to die from bedbug bites. We’ll deal with it in the morning”</p>
<p>I called the landlord this morning. They don’t think it’s bedbugs, but they cleaned the room, exterminated the room, moved in a new bed for her. She washed almost everything in her room. She asked if I could go up to see her this weekend to make sure everything is ok.</p>
<p>S2: I got a 50 on my History test
Me: Are you kidding me?
S2: Believe me,I’m just as surprised as you are.</p>
<p>^^^ packmom, that one caused me to spew coffee from my mouth!!!</p>
<p>I sent this thread to my mom. She loved it, as have I. Makes me realize how ‘normal’ my son is!</p>
<p>these are hilarious :)</p>
<p>My boys seem to give us a scare mostly in regards to (but not limited to) natural disasters.
S#2 was in Szechuan province during May 2008 earthquake and announced each time he and his students evacuated the classroom during aftershocks. This past weekend he was on small Pacific island near Hong Kong during tsunami warning; of course, he knew nothing about the Chile earthquake or tsunami warning. Then there was the time he was traveling in Europe with a friend; I hadn’t heard from him so called his cell but he said, “I can’t talk now. I’m in a hospital in Rome.” He’s a Type 1 diabetic and forgot his blood glucose meter; he had been traveling over a week without testing his blood sugar and became frightened as he was hiking in the heat and eating little.</p>
<p>S#3 called us August 2007 hours after his arrival in Lima Peru to announce an earthquake had just occurred. Then his call ended. I put on the news and soon heard about the earthquake. We were unable to reach him again till 24 hours later but at least he had called so I knew he was probably okay. Phew!</p>
<p>All my boys know – call home if there’s a natural disaster in your neck of the world.</p>
<p>"I am totally expecting the phone call, Mom, where is my next class, I don’t have my schedule? He will be in college at least five hours away. "</p>
<p>My first day of school I called my mom sobbing because I couldn’t find a building my class was in and I was about to go home and drop it instead, she had to mapquest it for me. XD It was directly across the street from my previous class, but encircled by other buildings and ON TOP of a parking structure, not visible at all from the street, no sign, nobody on the street knew where it was, and I circled the block for over an hour unable to find the building.</p>
<p>I should have seen that as a bad omen and dropped the class anyway.</p>
<p>Wow, talk about an obscure location for a class!?!?!? What was the subject of the course anyway?</p>