<p>Faline - Thank you for the good laugh. I can imagine the different assignments. Who wants to get the calls about OMG I Don’t Have Time to Shower!? Who wants to get the calls about Why Friend1
Is So Crabby? Who wants to get the calls about What Should I Have For Dinner? Who wants to get the calls about Why Do Only The Boys I Don’t Like IM Me and Want To Hang Out?</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I feel as though Sinner’s Alley has moved into the puddle of pee. Hmmm.</p>
<p>Who wants to get the calls about What Should I Have For Dinner? </p>
<p>oh, I do. really. its sad but true. Boys are so simple. They never want to talk to you about Why a Friend Ignores me or My favorite dress got ruined in the Dryer or anything.</p>
<p>its a win-win. She gets a new college resume builder for Lifting Parent/University Relations to a new intimacy level, and I get to talk to someone else’s child about the weather and what shoes would truly suit today’s activities.</p>
<p>Ok, as I’m reading the new posts from this morning on this thread I get a phone call from my son, the senior. I answered the phone and from the other end of the line I hear-“Can I wash my jeans with my khakis?” No hello, no how are you, just straight to the point. I had to laugh because this is typical of out phone conversations. I tried to ask a few questions before he was tired of talking.</p>
<p>I was just glad I got to speak to him for the few moments I did!</p>
<p>I’ve got Alum’s D and Faline’s S–if I could only mix the two together! My delightful D can talk for hours and hours; everything in her life needs to be disected, commented on, laughed and/or cried over. She’s about to make several huge life changes at once, so the fun never stops.</p>
<p>My S? Will call back if I call, but is usually on his way out somewhere important, like buying groceries.</p>
<p>However–we did IM last night about possible permutations of the Mets line-up this year for about an hour–thank God we do share a common obsession!</p>
<p>Well, as a middle-aged parent who hasn’t received any Daily Dish since about age 8 (12? 13? who can remember), I would still sign up for AluD’s service.</p>
<p>I was envisioning it a little differently though. Can’t she offer a variety of “packages?” Package A - she tells us what’s going on in <em>her</em> life. Package B - she finds a way to find out what’s going on in <em>our</em> kids lives and reports it to us without the grunts, complaints that we are annoying, urgent need to ring off/sign off after 1/3 of a sentence. Package C - the Deluxe Model-- she “channels” our kids. This one might take a little mind expansion on her part or subcontracting to folks from the Psychic Hotline, but I’m sure it could be worked out.</p>
<p>DD called twice this morning. First time to tell me she got her big Latin exam back, a 93%, so she was happy about that. And to discuss her dinner out last night. Called back later to talk about a dress she ordered that she had shipped to me so I had to ship it to her! “But Mommy it was just too cute and I want to wear it dancing!!” So why not ship it to yourself I ask and she replies, but I wanted you to see it first and tell me if YOU think it is too cute!</p>
<p>Something tells me I will not have that conversation with my son. She will call back at least once more if not twice since she knows open house at the school is tonight and she wants to hear all about her brothers. And remember she does NOT own a cell phone. She is taking a PE class (4 required for graduation even as a D1 athlete) BELLY DANCING. Thinks its a blast. I don’t think my son will be enrolling in that class either!</p>
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<p>OMG!!! LOL!!! You are my psychic twin!!!</p>
<p>My D is not a frequent phoner but she is a detailed chatter and is very open with me. Sometimes there is a “too much information” aspect; for example, as much as I really want to know what is happening in her life, I don’t want to know stuff that would provoke a heart attack for my H if it was disclosed to him. Like when she told me she would be Dorothy for Halloween, and amended that the costume was “really more like whore-othy” :eek:. Or when I am emailed picutres of specific kids-- “look, here’s Brad, that guy from my Psych class”-- taken in dorm rooms with fully visible background towers of Jack Daniels empties, etc.</p>
<p>On one hand, I’ve got a very clear picture of the scene. On the other hand, I’ve got a very clear picture of the scene! :eek:</p>
<p>Not that I’m complaining!</p>
<p>jmmom. Your MBA is showing:). Great thinking. Package A frankly she would probably do for free. Package B - anyone have a boy who is confident, over 5’10" and I forget her other criteria? In that case, also free. Package C. Well it’s funny you mention that. D has always been scarily psychic. Not kidding. When she was little if I was having evil thoughts I didn’t like to be around her because she might pipe up and reveal them…</p>
<p>And Garland, yes, my S is not like my D. In his case, I have had to learn to discuss why UConn is really the top college bball team as opposed to UT or Duke when they were also undefeated or why JJ Reddick would not make as good of an NBA player as Adam Morrison. When S goes to school I will have to get D to find out from him what is going on.</p>
<p>Love these…pokey, weenie, jmmom, LOL. “Where’s the pita bread? Gotta go.”</p>
<p>I’ve had five or six of these: “I missed my flight what should I do?” I jumped the first time but now I ask him…Are you at the airport? Do you think you should check with the ticket agent? Knock Knock.</p>
<p>Boys are simple. I have a friend who has three boys. One of them looks like JFK Jr, bod and all. He called his mother once as a junior. What should he do about the girls who were throwing notes at him during lectures? </p>
<p>He honestly didn’t know. He didn’thave a clue that he was so handsome. Poor girls had probably waited two years for him to notice them hinting and swooning.</p>
<p>alum, S1 is 6-2, handsome, a laugh, a reader and a traveller. Do I qualify for free updates?</p>
<p>well, you guys just cheered me up mightily. many laughs today on this hijacked thread.</p>
<p>cheers, </p>
<p>The next iteration of the Parents Forum, the spawn of the Parent Cafe, will surely be the Future Inlaw Yente Cafe. We knew we’d have to find something else to micro-manage now that the college hands have been played!</p>
<p>So far I am quietly eyeing SEVERAL posters’ sons for my D!!</p>
<p>Here’s my personals ad:</p>
<p>She’s funny, loving, extremely creative, & very pretty–tall, athletic, slim. She is easy-going and tolerant. She’ll enjoy whipping him at tennis, if he’s up for that. She’s a fully-Hebrew-reading, though not religious, Jew. And believe me, she’ll be very, very good to your grandchildren!</p>
<p>Indeed, many good laughs! I’m having an exceptionally boring day, so this was fun.</p>
<p>I am so going to be on this bandwagon next year! My S, the senior, made a phone call yesterday to find out when a meeting would occur. The phone call went something like this, Grunt, when are we going to meet, yeah, what?, yeah, oh, bye. Afterwords I remarked that he had the worst phone conversations I have ever heard. He said, what do you expect, I’m a guy!</p>
<p>This year, I’m able to pull some conversation out of him, next year he won’t be a captive audience and I expect to have the usual non-communication and grunts that everyone here is experiencing.</p>
<p>I do feel guilty, I haven’t called my mother in a couple of weeks. Not enough to call, but I still feel guilty.</p>
<p>Cheers. You qualify for the free updates. D loves to travel and is dying to do more - particularly in Latin America. I will make sure your update plan is tailored to your time zone:).</p>
<p>I guess if I wrote an ad for D - targeted to moms of boys of course - it might read:</p>
<p>Tall, red-haired, fair-skinned, blue-eyed, almost no freckles (key redhead sticking point), slim and elegant ex-ballerina who wants to save the world or at least run large sections of it. Older men fall inappropriately in love with her. Can manage even the least organized human to be anywhere on time as required. Likes Broadway musicals, food, movies, reads favorite books over and over, can rough-house like crazy. Loyal friend, responsible, laughs at other people’s jokes with good humor. Can be moody but will take very good care of your son. Wants someone confident, tall, charming would be a bonus. Left of center good but not required. Must want children.</p>
<p>Of course, if I wrote that, she would kill me and I STILL wouldn’t get to see my grandchildren:).</p>
<p>OK so who’s brave enough to start the “personal ads we’d write for our kids” thread? ;)</p>
<p>(PS: not me)</p>
<p>deb: I like the conversation starting with “grunt.” My younger son’s answering message on his cell phone just says “speak.”</p>
<p>alumother:
This part of your personal, “Tall, red-haired, fair-skinned, blue-eyed, almost no freckles (key redhead sticking point), slim and elegant” fits my son to a tee. How funny is that? He needs a girlfriend who can’t lay out in the sun. As it is his girlfriend is very dark-skinned. Could be a bad summer for him…He once asked me, “Mom, will I ever be able to get a sun tan?” NO! Forget about it!</p>
<p>My younger son’s answering message on his cell phone just says “speak.”</p>
<p>priceless</p>
<p>Weenie if your S and my D had kids they would probably be transparent…One of D’s criteria for choosing schools was the least sunscreen required. Faline, my S’s answering message is like this:</p>
<p>Uh, this is Aluson. I’m Uh, not here right now. Uh, leave a message and, Uh, <pause> I’ll get back to you.</pause></p>
<p>The message on older S’s phone goes:</p>
<p>“This is <name>, leave a message and I’ll get back to you in a couple of days.” (!!) At least he then goes on to provide his email. (Which I personally have not found very effective either, but then again, I’m the Mother.)</name></p>
<p>email address on voice mail. how very warm and fuzzy. hilarious.</p>
<p>You know “screening” out calls and contacts by parents and peers is a bit challenging these days. I almost feel sorry for all these kids.</p>
<p>Back in my era, each dorm room had a buzzer that would make this horrid hornet buzz three beat sound if there was someone…an unidentified guest…usually a male guest…waiting for you in the dorm Receiving room/living room/parlor. Down the pretty staircase you would go after perhaps freshening up your hair or looking into your tricolor ligthed make up mirror, day, evening and office lights (high Tech!) What a nightmare this would be half the time as it might be the boy you were avoiding rather than the one you were dreaming of and you couldn’t just cut and run. This was the South, so of course you at least sat down a few minutes and courteously spoke to any boy brave enough to march over to your dorm and have the matron “buzz your room.”</p>
<p>I recall my very shy but tall roommate who was later a big success as a vocalist/conductor, sailing with joy to the parlor after the three buzzes, and there was the boy she loved from afar, gazing up at her from the foot of the stairs. She finally realized he looked totally lost and confused when she joined him as he had buzzed another girl on a different hall. Her “gentleman caller” was an awkward fellow in another corner that she had been trying to stay 100 yards from at all times. She burst into tears, as Boy of her Dreams, although a bit lost like many boys, read her face and all was revealed to both fellows…one crush and one hurtful rejection out there all in one moment.</p>
<p>oh yes, and Alumother…adore your daughter already…she is a dear and a catch indeed.</p>