<p>I should thank all of you. It was remembering this thread that I thought to add “No, I’m not hurt” to a text begging my mom to call me as soon as she could the other night… complete with a large number of calls to her cell phone both made before and after the text was sent.</p>
<p>She was very appreciative since I am a bit accident prone and have already had a severely sprained ankle this year (UCSC is a terrible campus to be on crutches at, by the way).</p>
<p>Phone calls you do not want to receive from the student life office: your daughter has been arrested for DUI. That said, there wasn’t an accident and no one was hurt and for those reasons, I count my blessings and vow to emerge from this as a stronger, better person.</p>
<p>Kender–on behalf of all parents, we thank you & all kids who remember to tell us you’re not hurt when we get messages to contact you (& of course no one answers when we try to make contact). As parents, we are VERY GOOD at worrying! When you at least let us know you’re OK & unhurt, we can ease off on the worry. :)</p>
<p>Also, schools. I was very involved at my kids’ elementary school and the lovely ladies in the office called me often about various things. They always started their call with “The kids are fine” because I think they knew that parents hearts race a little when they get a call from the school.</p>
<p>mimk6, I never quite forgave my D’s preschool for once calling and saying “There has been a little accident…” then putting me on hold for a moment before coming back to explain that she had wet her pants. Boy was I fuming.</p>
<p>rosered, sending you {{hugs}} and agreeing that it could have been much, much worse. Here’s hoping it was a learning experience and will never be repeated.</p>
<p>I used to work part-time for our schools, and when I had to call parents for volunteer things (because I was also a member of the Parent Council) I would always call from work. I knew the parents would answer the phone when they saw the school phone number, assuming it was the nurse! (evil cackle) But as soon as they answered I always said, “Hi, it’s me - not the school nurse! Relax!”</p>
<p>Reverse phonecall story-
DS is living at a nearby college frat house this summer while taking classes. DH called DS early this past Sunday morning (well, early by a college student’s definition for a weekend call) to ask DS if he would help his (DH’s) war veterans post put out flags at the cemetary for Memorial Day. DS groggily complains about being woken up, but agrees. DH said "I’ll pick you up- where are you? DS replies “I’m at the Ritz”. :eek: :eek:</p>
<p>This one’s more funny than bad. It’s an email from my son, who is touring Europe with a group of friends after their college graduation. In reference to stitches he received after a fall when he was previously in Europe on his semester abroad, he titled it:</p>
<p>“It wouldn’t be Europe if I wasn’t bleeding profusely from somewhere”</p>
<p>“Everything’s going really well, except that my nose has decided that now is the time to start randomly bleeding. I woke up last night with it bleeding, and today it started again. At the moment it stopped, but only because it has a tampon shoved up it. Thank god I’m traveling with some females.”</p>
<p>Lafalum - I’m rolling!! My sons nose has been randomly bleeding lately so I just read him this saying it was a possible solution. He’s a shy 18yo with no sisters so I think he needs a semester in a co-ed dorm before he’s ready for that. ;)</p>
<p>My S also has a lot of nosebleeds. Once he went on a youth group trip to an amusement park in a rented van. On the way back he had one of his “gushers.” There were only guys in this particular van. No one had a tissue (or any sanitary products!).</p>
<p>One of the boys, a boy scout, took off his shoes, then pulled off his socks and offered them to my S for his nosebleed.</p>
<p>When the boy scout friend got home, his mom (one of my best friends) asked her son where his socks were. When he explained what happened, he told her that he threw them away after my S was done with them. She was grateful that he had!</p>
<p>I was pretty grossed out by the thought of socks that had been worn all day by a teenage boy at an amusement park in hot, humid weather!</p>
<p>Call from S2 yesterday (we were to see him today)…Mom, do you happen to have any aloe you could bring me?
Me: Are you scorched?
S2: Well, just in some places.
Me: Did you not wear sunscreen at the lake?
S2: Nope, used sunscreen and was fine after the lake
Me: Then how did you get fried?
S2:I didn’t know the guy driving me back to school would drive for five hours down the interstate in a Jeep Wrangler with the top off on a 90 degree day.</p>
<p>During my freshman year in highschool, both parents work about an hour away with traffic.</p>
<p>Me: umm hey mom remember the microwave
Mom : what do you mean remember?
Me: welllll themicrowavecaughtfire
Mom: what??
Me: the microwave kinda started sparking, well actually not sparking, more like flaming? But you know how you kept saying we needed a new one?</p>
<p>Turns out metal (including tin foil) does NOT mix with microwaves as my mom emphatically explained when she got home.</p>
Thanks to everyone for helping us make our kids seem more “normal.”</p>