<p>text from the bus @ 6:50am ‘MOM, HELP! I forgot Oscar Beauxlachomp’ ‘what is an Oscar Beauxlachomp?’ ‘Just look in my room, you can’t miss him. I have to have him today.’ …
School starts in 20min & I’m in bed 20min away…looking for an ‘Oscar Beauxlachomp’. A poster of a frog for Honors Bio. The ONLY thing I’ve ever driven to school. He met me at the ‘kiss n ride’ just in time.</p>
<p>OMG!!! Mommy, I’m at the Chateau Marmont! And I saw this REALLY old guy…said he was a Rolling Stone. OMG! Mom…I’m going to be on Perez Hilton!!!</p>
<p>(translation: Mommy, your child is at the infamous hotel for misbehavior, aka the Hotel California. This geezer who is older than your parents, who may or may not be who he says he is, has just invited my baby and her friends to a party. And to my further chagrin, it will be on the internet for all to see. Fabulous.)</p>
<p>she showed up 20 minutes later…boy, were they LONG minutes.</p>
<p>“Hey mom, I got a great story! We (roommate and D-19 years old) were in Beverly Hills, and this guy called us over to his limo, Andy Dick, I don’t know who he is but I guess he’s famous, and we got in his limo, and someone came running out from the club and gave him a LOT of money, like $100,000. And we drove around BH for a while …” </p>
<p>After googling “Andy Dick” (I must confess, I didn’t know who he was, but a bigger sleazebag would be hard to find . I nearly had a stroke. I thought I had taught her not to get into cars with strangers. My dumb, star-struck daughter. He let them out, no harm no foul, but boy was I mad.</p>
<p>Wow-tptshorty–I just googled Andy Dick as well and read the Wikipedia entry. I 'm glad you found out about this little escapade after the fact. It’s hard to imagine a person I’d be less likely to want my daughter to get in a limo with.</p>
<p>Isn’t it “wonderful” that SC and UCLA parents can bond over sleazy celebs?</p>
<p>At SC, the kids are told to be “cool” and not make a fuss over celebs who happen onto their campuses. To date, my kids have never told me any celeb stories & they’re VERY careful about whom they hang out with (as far as I know). :)</p>
<p>I don’t know that kids at SC are “told” anything. As a third gen BH kid my daughter has never asked for an autograph…but a possible rock star? Intriguing to say the least. And she is also a 4x legacy to SC as well. Cool is her middle name…until the Chateau…</p>
<p>…I will say that my friend, first generation BH, and a daughter at UCLA does ask for autographs, “for her daughter.”</p>
<p>Gosh darn, I did it. That UCLA/SC thing always pops up. :)</p>
<p>I don’t think this has anything to do with which school they go to, UCLA or that other one across town. It’s all about being a starstruck teenage girl. How even the scummiest of D-list “celebrities” or rock stars yield such power over impressionable young women is my worry. Hopefully, my darling D learned a valuable lesson, albeit the hard way, and won’t be so silly again. Mind you, my H works in show business, and she’s met plenty of celebs, but that was before she became a young woman, so the stakes are different now.</p>
<p>From ds his freshman year: “GF is visiting. She and I are in the ER- have been here all night. She fainted and hit her head last night and was unconscious briefly. No we weren’t drinking. We’ve been waiting here and haven’t seen a Dr. in hours. What happens if we tell them we just want to leave? And no, she isn’t pregnant.”</p>
<p>Still silently thanking my D for NOT calling to tell me she had been hit by a car while riding her bike w/o a helmet. She was dazed and cut but otherwise fine and told me the following day when I saw her and could hug her. She was OK, even if a bit stiff and did go the the student health center for a complete check up. Have still NOT been able to get her to wear a helmet. :(</p>
<p>HIMom: my daughter’s helmet was broken in half (and her collar bone into four pieces) when she was hit by a car. Please please tell your daughter that she’s not immortal. (My daughter has made an uneventful recovery from her injuries and is currently bicycling across the country, from Portland (OR) to Yorktown (VA).</p>
<p>HImom: Tell her a friend of mine had a bike accident 3 weeks ago. She was not wearing a helmet. </p>
<p>Cost of helmet = ~$50-80
Cost of injuries = 6 days ICU, 3 skull fractures, 1 collapsed lung, 5-6 fractured ribs, 1 shattered collarbone requiring surgery to reconstruct. 6 months recovery, ?? days missed from work, ??? hospital bills.</p>
<p>Wear the helmet!!</p>
<p>You are preaching to the choir. I can only control some things once my kids no longer live in my home. I wear MY helmet and will always continue to urge my kids to do the same but really cannot FORCE anything from 2500 miles away.</p>
<p>My brother was hit by a car while riding a bike without a helmet. He ended up with a blood clot on the brain, and had to have brain surgery to remove it.</p>
<p>Quote from a doctor friend: “What do they call bike riders and motorcyclists who don’t wear helmets?”</p>
<p>“Organ donors.”</p>
<p>Just a comment on bike helmets. Most of you know DH and I own a bike business. We sell about thirty different helmets. Recently I bought a new helmet. I tried on all 30 helmets, from the cheap $25 ones to the $300 racing helmets. There is a significant difference in how different helmets fit… I ended up being most comfortable in a mid-price-range helmet (around $70). When I’m wearing it, I actually forget I have it on. I’ve worn it into restaurants and had to be reminded by the waitress to take it off. I <em>hated</em> wearing my old helmet.</p>
<p>If your child is complaining about wearing a helmet, consider a trip to a big big store with a lot of choices; there may be a helmet they won’t mind wearing.</p>
<p>I’ve worn it into restaurants and had to be reminded by the waitress to take it off</p>
<p>rofl
you & Sally Jewell.</p>
<p>I got this one last night, “Mom, I think I’m going bald”.</p>
<p>About a year ago…Call from daughter screaming into the phone while driving on the highway around midnight …“Mom my car is about to die, what do I do?”<br>
Me: Pull the car over to the shoulder, call the police, don’t get into another car, look for a road marker and I will car AAA for a tow. That was an interesting night!</p>
<p>dmd - it’s not the comfort of the helmet, it’s the helmet hair that keeps my daughter from wearing it!</p>