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<p>Not so fast. My kid did. A brand new iphone.</p>
<p>My same kid who has lost the half dozen or so phones has also lost the electronic key for the car. And his wallet. And the credit card.</p>
<p>I’ve said this before, it makes me feel so good that my son isn’t the only one who does these things. I always thought that he was unique in that way.</p>
<p>Actual phone call my sister received late Wednesday afternoon from her daughter at the University of Alabama:</p>
<p>Niece: Hey Mom, I’m looking out my window right now and I can see a HUGE tornado that looks like it’s coming straight at us. It’s about 1/4 mile away!! OMG! :click: (hangs up)</p>
<p>Sister: redials - gets no answer…</p>
<p>Fortunately, it turned away from her apartment and she was fine but my sister just about had a heart attack until she could reach her on the cellphone. I can’t even imagine…</p>
<p>Yea, it was our CAREFUL kid who had his phone & wallet stolen when he left it on a bench at the U’s gym “just for a minute” when he went to the bathroom. It didn’t stop him from leaving it unattended at a bench just weeks later at a climbing wall place. 
Fortunately, his aunt scooped them up before anyone else decided to. D has lost her wallet, only to find it a week later in someone’s car & has permanently lost one cell phone. I lost one to the swimming pool when it popped out of my pocket as I leaned over to get a leaf out of the pool. Fortunately for S, he was able to combine two dead phones to make one that worked!</p>
<p>Patsmom, glad your niece was OK but her niece should get such a call when she’s a mom!</p>
<p>Personally I’m hoping that someone is keeping a cosmic scorecard (of all the harmless but heart stopping/breath catching/questionable calls, acts, etc) and will deal it back out to our children when they become parents…</p>
<p>^^^OH, gosh, patsmom, so glad your niece was okay. Very terrifying to see video of that tornado on the news and know how close that came to your child. So grateful to have my son safely at home now.</p>
<p>sistersunnie: Every time one of my kids does something naughty or stupid my dad is always the first to say “you so deserve this”.</p>
<p>^^^My mother always says “you get the children you deserve.” I must have been very good, but VERY spacey.</p>
<p>Tonight’s phone call – from S2. “I have to talk fast cause my phone only works if its cold, so i am keeping it in the freezer and I can only use it for about five minutes an hour or so.” Clearly, he did not have time to explain to me why his phone only works if it’s cold.</p>
<p>That made me laugh, lololu! What could possibly cause that?</p>
<p>I have no idea, but he claims a friend told him to try it and it works, so he is keeping his phone in the freezer until he can get home and get a new one.</p>
<p>Actually, electronic devices (including computers/laptops) can develop “thermal problems,” so that they work better (or at all) when cold and not well (if at all) when they heat up. As a practical matter, that’s not very helpful to have a phone which develops such problems & is generally a sign to us that the device is about to die (at least for all intents & purposes). At least he’s adapting in his own way. ;)</p>
<p>I guess hubby & I must have been OK kids because we’re very happy with our kiddos. 
They do some quirky things, but so did/do we. LOL!</p>
<p>I used to have a watch that slowed down when it got cold. Time warp.</p>
<p>D’s Facebook status this morning: “dear phone, please come home. love me.”</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>Wonder if her phone is on FB…</p>
<p>My mom gets this phone call from my sister (Frosh in college) literally at least 4 times a week. Literally:
Sis: <em>Sobbing hysterically at midnight/1AM</em> “Mom, we broke up. Again. I think I’m gonna go jump out the window”</p>
<p>Mom: “No, xxx, it’s going to be fine. Please don’t go near the windows. It’s gonna be fine.”
Sis: “But my life is over! It’s really over. I can’t live without him!”</p>
<p>Background: She and her boyfriend of about 1.5 years have been on and off for the last few months. They break up and get back together basically every day. It doesn’t help that she has severe anxiety and codependency issues. We got one of these last night, but by this morning she’d called in a cheery voice to say they were back together again. <em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>I know I should be used to it…but, text from S (and I am in airport en route to pick him up on the other coast) “Does blood come out of khaki shorts? And are you coming to campus tonight?”</p>
<p>Of course, my quick text back and subsequent phone calls weren’t responded to…leaving me to wonder --is this the one time I should be worried…or yet another “Mom! Relax, it’s nothing!” Touching down five hours later, I learned it was the latter…sigh. He doesn’t realize all the awful scenarios I conjured up during that flight…</p>
<p>Knowing my kids, any blood would most likely be a nosebleed or similar, but they know me better than to ask about blood w/o any explanation as they try not to have me worry. That’s why D told me in person that her bike was hit by a car while she was riding it instead of calling or texting. She’d knew we’d be upset.</p>
<p>I guess we all need to count our blessings that for the most part, they stay pretty intact, despite worrying us all!</p>
<p>I know when I was hit by a car while riding a bike I did not allow the people with me to contact my daughter at school. I waited until I could tell her, which was on the way home from the ER. I figured before my friend pulled up and I got out of the car looking beat up on crutches, I might want to warn her.</p>
<p>I was quite protective of my folks–did NOT tell them about my mono or my stays at the school infirmary due to mono & food poisoning until AFTER I was fine & everything had resolved. I figured it would unduly worry them & all that could be done for me WAS being done for me. My kids have mostly been considerate in this manner as well, which is why we don’t have more white hairs than we do. :)</p>
<p>Our T/Cs with our 'rents were “short & sweet.” Mostly, they still are. :)</p>