<p>Another high price to pay: no interest from SBmom. ;)</p>
<p>I have to say. I was wondering about those tatoos and Subic Bay. Phew. Just a bar story.</p>
<p>BTW, Anchors Aweigh to LFWBSon!!! I hope he doesn’t come back with too many tatoos.</p>
<p>The only thing true and correct about that post is my screen name and respect for SBmom. 
The rest is…well…all made up. There, I’ve said it - I pulled virtually all that post out of thin air. It’s not worth the electrons it took to send it.</p>
<p>Hmmm…actually many of my posts are similarly valued…:rolleyes:</p>
<p>pulling ya’ll up from page 2. Gosh, a girl goes lurking comes back home and finds out</p>
<p>We have stepped up to cyber pong (ya know we’ve got some ringers here on the ally so there will be some unfair advantages)</p>
<p>TSFH has a guardian marmot</p>
<p>SB is getting come hither looks from men at the gym (always gotta reel her in, because she has always had a bit of a wild streak).</p>
<p>pour me a tall one because I have been missing out on all of the fun.</p>
<p>sybbie, so nice to see you!</p>
<p>Can that chicken basket be used for highlighting? Off the feet and onto the head?</p>
<p>A quick hello to my drinking buddies. If you’ve peeked at the “college tour nightmare” thread, you’ll note that older s. has been in the hospital since Sunday when he shattered his femur skiing out here in CA, and had surgery to have a titanium rod inserted. We are HOPING to get him discharged from the hospital today and then hopefully back to college on Saturday… Its been a helluva week. My sympathies to my other compadres in here who are dealing with broken legs. Seems to be a lot of that going around. DS is battling to be allowed to return to college alone (ie I am looking into changing my flights to go back to Houston with him before returning home). The threat of havingt an overprotective mom accompany him has miraculous healing powers! I’ve already set up the wheelchair/meet and assist stuff with the airlines and ds is trying to get his roommates to dtive to the airport to get him and his car. I have to decide how hard I wnt to fight this battle. Unfortunately, my H, like my s’s belongs to the “we are men- we are fine- we can handle everything without help” club! Grrrr. I’ll give it one more day before changing my flights. The disability office has been notified and all the handicapped stuff is in process, but still… I am not happy about the idea of his trying to navigate this independently less than one week after surgery. I’d rather err on the “overprotective mom” side, but I am facing resistence. Please pour me a doule.</p>
<p>jym–wow, sure hope all goes well for your son. It can only get better from here, right? And I hope his campus is entirely handicap-accessible. Kind of thing you don’t notice until you need it.</p>
<p>Over in another thread, I just got called a “gender segregationist” for advocating that maybe gf/bf rooming together in the dorm is not such a good thing. Am I some sort of reactionary dinosaur? 
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<p>The name-caller is a college kid, of course.</p>
<p>BUMMER jym!! Kisses to the injured and the injured’s mama!!</p>
<p>thanks mommusic and sbmom. Unfortunately his area of the dorm isn’t handicapped accessible- and he lives on the 2nd floor with a lofted bed! We have work to do.</p>
<p>Gender segregationalist? Great term…</p>
<p>Lofted bed? Crutches? No problema.</p>
<p>I’m seeing the crutch as a very effective pole-vaultish thing-y. If necessary, I’m sure the physical therapist could work with him on proper technique ;).</p>
<p>Crutches…loft bed…I’m thinking secondary injuries. :(</p>
<p>Tell him to be careful! (Not that he’ll listen.) Is there any way he can have the lower bunk for the duration? Or un-loft the beds?</p>
<p>^^ My way is more funner. :D</p>
<p>Thanks for the laugh, jmmom 
As for the loft, yes, they can unloft it… if they can find the room for everything. He lives in a suite-- very small bedrooms around a living room. The living room has a sofabed so that looks like that will be the more likely place to sleep. I don’t know how comfortable it is, and his roomies will have to go through the living room to get in/out and to use the bathroom, but we’ll see. The college remodelled the other side of the dorm (across the courtyard) and there is a handicapped room (currently occupied by non-handicapped students, but one is a good friend of his) so maybe they’ll swap for a brief time. That was my suggestion, but of course DS doesnt want to impose and have to move a lot of stuff… There are a lot of unknowns at this point. They have arranged a scooter, but he’ll still have to use the crutches to get from wherever he can park the cart to his room. Lots of logistics to deal with… stay tuned…</p>
<p>People, people, people.</p>
<p>What are you thinking? Here’s what we do.</p>
<p>a. Build a sedan chair. Gilt, ebony, rubies, silks and satins.
b. Call our trusty marmots. I can see it, yolked together like the reindeer of the Queen of Narnia.</p>
<p>S1 will travel in style. When it comes time to get him into bed they will form a marmot totem pole and hoist him up via paw express.</p>
<p>Phew. Problem solved.</p>
<p>Of course, Alu. 
Silly me. Send them critters over here. What was I thinking…</p>
<p>He’ll need a whole new wardrobe to set the mood. Turban, gilded swami loin-cloth. With the marmots as sherpas, not to worry about schlepping stuff.</p>
<p>Thank goodness Alu is on the job. The rest of us have let the Sinners Alley libations dim our brainpower.</p>
<p>Never fear, the pole vault is much practiced by Lords of the Marmot. The swami loin-cloth has to be duct taped to the legs, of course.</p>
<p>jym,</p>
<p>I hope that you told son, that this is not part of your contract and you are filing a greivance. In the mean time, come on over and sit next to me. We’ll drink mudsliders. Yeah, that’s what we’ll do… I cream’s made from mile, milk is good for healthy bones, we’ll drink so many mudsliders, that his bones will heal so beautifully and he’ll me running around in no time or we’ll be so drunk that it will just seem that way. but seriously, I’m glad to hear that he is on the mend and no pole vaulting on the loft beds.</p>
<p>But hey, does one have to have a broken leg to be carried off by marmots on jeweled and silk divans???</p>
<p>We can throw on some nice dressing gowns and a couple of bhappy’s feather boas and I’m just getting the vapors thinking about this. Now if we can teach these marmots to peel grapes and fan us…</p>
<p>Isn’t that supposed to be what those pool boys were for? Peeling grapes?</p>