<p>S1 called home (he is 600 miles away) @ midnight a few weeks ago. He had borrowed buddies car to go on a date. The car was a “stick-shift” which he had never learned how to drive. He wanted me to coach him how to get the car in reverse - I could hear the transmission GRINDING through his cell phone…I could also hear his date laughing…</p>
<p>D1 was in Telluride staying with her friend’s family and 10 other kids. We were out to dinner in NYC (thousands of miles away).</p>
<p>D1: We are hiking and we are half way there. I am a ballet dancer, not a hiker. I can’t go any more. If I go all the way then I would still need to make it back. We just saw a bear. What do you think I should do?"</p>
<p>She was sobbing by the time she finished talking.</p>
<p>I, not the most outdoorsie person said, “Why don’t you just sit there and wait for them to come back.”</p>
<p>She said, “What if the bear comes back?”</p>
<p>I had a tough day today. This thread made me laugh out loud multiple times!!! Thank you so much to everyone for sharing. :)</p>
<p>I, too, hate those calls that start with a sob. :(</p>
<p>ring…ring… Mom, my credit cards and wallet got stolen and I don’t have any money
. Can you call and cancel them right now? (I have a huge cart of groceries to check out… DD is calling from Chile and I know that the banks aren’t going to want to talk to me, since I’m not ON her account!)</p>
<p>channelswimmer, I laughed so load the cat ran out of the room! One of the two things will happen, either he will never see this girl again, or they will get married and live happily ever after.</p>
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<p>DS lives closer to his grandmother than any of her kids. He also works in Information and Technology, so he gets a lot of calls from her. But my MIL is smart; she knows he likes to eat. So she gets the tech support she wants, and he gets the occasional meal. And we get to live our lives.</p>
<p>“Hey mom, I dropped out so I can move to the Yukon Territories. Gotcha. April Fools.”</p>
<p>D (in HS, calling from an Animie/Manga conference): Mom, I’m having someone who is an adult buy me a Samurai sword.</p>
<p>later</p>
<p>D: Mom, I got the sword & love it; I’m the envy of all my friends!</p>
<p>channelswimmer - LOL. tell him to look on the internet for instructions.
When my daughter bought a stick shift, I spent hours teaching her… after being told multiple times that I was a bad teacher, didn’t know how to drive etc.
She googled it. Got in the car, drove away and never looked back!</p>
<p>paying3 Love April Fools. The first year our DS was at college and totally self absorbed I called him on April Fools and told him his grandparents won the lottery! I kept it going for about ten minutes before I reminded him of the date.</p>
<p>We’ve never done April Fool’s jokes; too much drama already in our lives to want to enhance it.</p>
<p>My S1 was born on April Fool’s Day. That was enough of a joke and a lot of drama.</p>
<p>A friend was married on April Fool’s Day. I thought that was a bad omen; they did get divorced a while back and in the process she learned that he had diverted all the money her folks had given them for their kids’ education to his retirement account. :(</p>
<p>Summer of '07, I was at a summer camp and staying at San Diego State. I called my mom.</p>
<p>Me: Mom, I just wanted you to know that the building we were having a lecture in caught on fire…we’ve been evacuated, but I have to go because they’re taking roll.</p>
<p>I did have the sense later to call her and tell her everything was okay.</p>
<p>Another phonecall my mom and dad received this morning from SSU’s automated emergency response system at about noon: (I got one too)</p>
<p>“Possible gunshots have been fired across the street from SSU, on <em>name of street</em>. Police are investigating. Press “star” to hear this message again.”</p>
<p>I received the call in my dorm, went to check with my roommates to make sure everyone was home and safe (we all were).</p>
<p>Go back into my bedroom, have two IMs from mom. “HGFM. You there???”</p>
<p>I decide to call so that she can hear my voice and know I’m okay. Dial the home phone.</p>
<p>Mom picks up on the first ring.</p>
<p>Mom: HGFM!
Me: Hi, mom.
Mom: What’s going on?
Me: I don’t really know, but I’m okay.
Mom: Okay…what time is your next class?
Me: 5:25.
Mom: Okay. PLEASE stay inside and lock your doors until they give an all clear.
Me: Okay, mom.
Mom: Ask your roommates to please be careful.
Me: Okay, mom.
Mom: I love you.
Me: Love you too, mom.
Mom: Keep me posted, okay?
Me: Kay.</p>
<p>All of my roommates were having the exact same conversation…it was actually kinda funny.</p>
<p>Just got one this morning. daughter is preparing to be snowed in down in MD. I told her to come home since her school canceled today but she declined.
D - Oh yeah, Mom, I am out of pills. I forgot to bring some down with me.
Me - And you start a new pack on Sunday?
D - yeah, so can you call the dr and have them call a precription down here?
Me - (steaming because a new package just arrived from the mail order - $48/ 3 months)
I will give you the number, you call.<br>
D- how much will it cost?
Me - about $60, you pay.
D- can you just drive them down here?</p>
<p>Grrrrr - why is her emergency my emergency???</p>
<p>Because this thread is so good, I’ll share something from the way back machine. But this is about the call NOT received. When DH was in high school, the school would call in the AM if students were absent. As a high school senior, with college acceptance in hand, DH had better things to do than go to school. Like ride his bicycle around and play tennis and listen to music. Ahem. So he would rewire the telephone on the oh 8 or 10 days he decided to do this so it would not ring. (These were the days before answering machines…) When he got home he’d rewire the thing so it could ring. Parents never received a single call. DH became an electrical engineer, lol. This could never happen today!</p>
<p>You married a rascal! ;)</p>
<p>I get plenty of phone calls from my oldest. She often calls me to look up directions on the internet when she is driving. Recently she went to visit a college for a scheduled day. She called in tears that she was lost in a city I had never been in. I was out and could not be of help. She called her Dad who mapquested where she was and walked her through the directions. The best was when she called me from an out of town airport and asked me what was her gate. I have received a few of those I am in the hospital calls. Not the calls you want to receive. Especially when it is the hospital staff calling.
My son on the other hand rarely calls when he has a problem. I wish he would. He tries to work it out on his own. There have been quite a number of things that we hear about much later that he should not have handled a certain way.</p>
<p>It’s pretty easy to turn the ringer off the landline phones. Your H was pretty good at planning and I’m sure is an amazing EE.</p>
<p>My HS for some reason NEVER called my folks for all the classes I missed in HS. I think the HS could never believe that I’d cut any classes (I was a great student). I cut quite a number in my day & my folks never knew!</p>
<p>Justamom: we have the same kid…!! ( and we have had that same conversation…about the same thing)</p>
<p>Older daughter literally lives a block away from a CVS…:</p>
<p>D: "What can I take if I can’t go to the bathroom? (not the word she used but I didn’t want to get “bleeped” by the mods)</p>
<p>me: “well, go to CVS and pick up Benefiber powder to put in your drink…”</p>
<p>D: “Can’t you send it up to me? I have too much work/ have to be at sorority house/ too stressed out about internships”</p>
<p>me: " Um, no…"</p>