<p>worrywart, I think your D should stick to the NFL. Less dangerous!!</p>
<p>More snowboarding adventures from S2:</p>
<p>S2: I went off a jump & knocked myself out on the landing. I woke up with X and Y staring down at me.
Me: ??!!##??
S2: Don’t worry, I was wearing a helmet.</p>
<p>Good grief, 12rmh18! Unconcious with a helmet?!?! I can’t bear to think of the alternative.</p>
<p>^^ He also broke his cell phone. Would someone please tell me when this reckless phase ends?!</p>
<p>“Mom, dad–my hand is blue. Just my left hand. I googled “blue hand”–do you think I am having a heart attack?”. </p>
<p>(no, but I think I almost had one…)</p>
<p>Turns out to be her response to stress…</p>
<p>“Would someone please tell me when this reckless phase ends?!”</p>
<p>When you no longer remember they are related to you ;-)</p>
<p>Well, here is one I got within the last half hour…</p>
<p>“Dad, can you add $500 to my debit card?”</p>
<p>My son and five friends were traveling from Quito, Ecuador, to the coast for Christmas. They were robbed at gunpoint, and lost all their stuff. He is out a backpack, carry-on bag, Iphone, notebook computer, glasses, contacts, clothes…</p>
<p>He was able to slip his ID, debit card, and cash out of his wallet as the robbery was going down. Passport was not along on the trip.</p>
<p>They only had to walk about 150 yards from a bus station to a taxi stand. En route, three guys on motorcycles swooped in and pulled guns. After it happened, everyone says “oh, that town is very dangerous” but no one warned them before.</p>
<p>Ho, ho, ho.</p>
<p>UT, Wow! Good for your son for remaining so calm during a robbery!</p>
<p>UT,</p>
<p>Your son has gone through what I term terrifying stuff twice now. When does he come home?</p>
<p>How about a phone call you DIDN’T receive, but wish you had?</p>
<p>Posted on my 18 year old son’s Facebook status at 2 am last night: “Just had to walk about a mile and a half by myself in 23 degree weather through the dark cuz it was too icy for my friend to take me home. Ate **** twice.”</p>
<p>And on his friend’s status, around the same time:
“Well [kid 1], [my son] and me were put to the challenge as we were asked to pulled three vehicles up a hill covered in some rough and vigorous ice. After snapping two toe straps we conquered the hills and challanges put on the hill, we were in aww at the power of a 4x4 dodge ram. But thats just another day in the life of the three amigo’s. . .”</p>
<p>So, the truck they were in was powerful enough to pull three vehicles up the highway on sheer ice, but they couldn’t drive 1 1/2 miles into our subdivision to drop my son off at home in the middle of a cold winter’s night?</p>
<p>BTW way we live in a rural mountain area with NO street lights, and our house is 1.5 miles straight uphill from the highway. So he walked home alone at 1 am, uphill, in the pitch dark, on ice, in 23 degree weather. In sneakers.</p>
<p>Oy. . .</p>
<p>^^^ Bless his heart.</p>
<p>Maybe it might be good for your S to have some amigos who have SENSE and care about his health and welfare more than having him walk uphill in the dark icy path for 1.5 miles in such cold weather. Wow! I can’t imagine either of my kids being able to match your son’s feat. BRRRRR!</p>
<p>Sorry, I can’t help lol’ing at HI Mom’s horror of 23 degree weather…where I’m from, that would be a warm winter day. </p>
<p>I’d worry a lot more about getting hit by a car in the dark.</p>
<p>Yes, I’d worry a great deal about being hit by a car in the dark, but walking uphill on an icy road is not my idea of a good time either. I have walked (very slowly & carefully) on ice & did not enjoy the experience.</p>
<p>Finally got the full story from my son - apparently his friends did try to drive him home but found the road blocked by three cars that had spun out on the ice soon after turning into our subdivision from the highway. The three of them spent an hour helping the stranded motorists move their cars (including hauling bags of sand from a neighbor’s garage to create traction, then pulling the cars off the road using a winch) but then, when they tried to continue up the hill towards our house, their own truck could not gain traction on the ice. Hence, the poor kid had to get out and walk the rest of the way home. Fortunately we live in a quiet, gated community so there wasn’t much traffic at that time of night - just steep, icy roads!</p>
<p>So I’m actually proud of them for being good samaritans and helping all those people get their cars unstuck. But I will be happy when my son goes back to school in Santa Barbara next week - at least there, if he is left stranded in the middle of the night, he won’t risk hypothermia trying to make it home!</p>
<p>daughter: Is it OK for the puppy to eat jalapenos? Because he just did.</p>
<p>hilaron–someday your son can tell a great story about how it was cold, icy, and “uphill both ways” :D</p>
<p>This wasn’t a call-- it was a twitter:</p>
<p>“Wind chill is -37F and the inside of the car is frozen, but we remain determined to ski today’s powder.”
:eek:</p>
<p>tx5athome: IS it okay for the puppy to eat jalapenos? Curious minds want to know. From a distance.</p>
<p>I googled it to make sure and it is OK (but evidently onions and grapes are toxic to dogs). He did drink a lot of water that day, but otherwise was perfectly fine.</p>