Helped daughter do college move in last week. She and her roommate both have a wireless printer. The roommate mentioned not wanting others to know they had them. She wasn’t sure how to hide the IP address so others wouldn’t connect to the printer. I said, “That’s easy, turn off the printer.”
As a follow on to #179, S told me it “left a small dent in the front door area. I told her she was fine and went on to get gas. I’ll send pics shortly. It’s nothing too massive I think”
Did you get her information? No. Why didn’t you get her information? I didn’t know what to do and it didn’t look that bad… (I can only hope whoever did this passes it forward. Because SHE knew that she should have given him her information…)
Pics don’t look ‘too massive’. But still …
Yikes, @m0minmd. Even very small car repairs can get pricey.
@doschicos We discussed earlier in the summer that this would most likely be his future vehicle. After this adventure, it will most definitely be his future vehicle! Oh and the whole “rear end/not too massive” thing was all relayed by text!
The world of make-up. I have failed my D16. Let’s hope her roommate is into giving make-up instruction. Of course, DD can take whatever approach to make-up use she wishes. But right now, she is clueless.
Honestly, @dyiu13 my D learned everything she could possibly need to know about make up from Youtube. She follows several vloggers who have their own channels. If your D wants to learn, that’s where she will find it. I’m a minimalist and sure didn’t teach her anything, but she’s done others up for big events and they’ve been very happy.
My son spent the day watching Youtubes about how to possibly diagnose and repair his truck that he needs for work. I used to think Youtube was all about old videos, but it’s so much more.
@sseamom – I am hoping my son teaches himself to cook via You Tube videos…because he did not try to learn from me. He is great on the grill, but no grill access in college apartment.
Perhaps it is not too late for me to learn to apply make-up beyond mascara & lipstick!
@dyiu13, I’m just popping in to second what @sseamom said about makeup. My wife does minimal makeup (she’s an engineer, and in true engineer form, just doesn’t see it as an efficient use of her time), and so D17 and D19 (especially the latter) get all they need to know from YouTube.
It also turns out that YouTube is how D19 figured out how to unlock Terminal from the lockdown on her school’s Macs.
D2 told me the only thing I taught her was how to do “swear and drink.” I think I did a good job!
My son simply wasn’t interested in learning to cook in high school. But recently he said something about wanting to take some time to learn how to cook, a skill much more important than anything he learned at (insert expensive college name here).
They will find ways to learn things when they are ready.
Ya, after college my son wanted to cook. My friend was a former chef, so he spent a day with her cooking. Now he orders BluePlate(?) and tries many new dishes, they just need to feel some confidence.
@bookworm – Blue Apron is on quite the marketing/expansion binge. Current subscribers are allowed to offer a free week’s subscription to friends. I tried it and did not like it, but that is b/c I prefer more protein and less starch. I agree that they just need to become confident.
@1214mom – I was hoping my son would take an interest in cooking as he just moved into an off-campus apartment where he will have to cook his dinner each night. This shall be interesting…Grocery shopping was interesting once we got to campus!
@CT1417, my son lived off campus for 2 years, and bought 2 “meals” out almost every day. It was still cheaper than the meal plan, so we were all happy.
My other son started out living off campus trying to be VERY frugal. When I told him it was OK if he bought meals out a fair amount, he was very very happy. Meal plans are pretty expensive.
After college, I think my son lived on spaghetti. When he expressed an interest in cooking, I was pleased to be able to provide a good resource. I like seeing his pictures of pies and meals that he makes.
Fortunately, my son’s college had a great meal plan. 2 meals a day, just 5 days. There was a kitchen on every floor, so easy to grab. Bagel or whatever for breakfast. Classes didn’t start u til 11:00 a.m. Houses often had weekend parties, with barbecues. Lots of local restaurants with lots of diversity.
That if the bus does not stop right at the door of a place, then you should get off at the nearest stop to it and walk over a few blocks or across a parking lot…
My D had complained to us that the city bus, which students can ride for free, does not stop at the local Target store. She had mentioned, however, that she took the bus to the mall once.
We visited her this past weekend and drove her to Target. It was across a side street from the mall parking lot.
Me: Oh, you said the bus didn’t come by here?
D: But it doesn’t stop here, it stops at the mall entrance.
Me: Um…
(And she needed a few things she could have easily walked or even biked with and easily could have taken on a bus.)
More important than cooking is food safety. My kid got very sick a few times. No, deli meat doesn’t last a few weeks in the fridge. Make hamburger patties and put them in the freezer. If not eating leftovers right away put them in the freezer. Ughhhh…Don’t reuse that knife you cut the raw chicken with, wash the cutting board with soap and water…blah,blah,blah…
Maybe those middle school home ec classes aren’t so useless after all.
@BeeDAre that’s hysterical about the bus!
@doschicos I feel the same way. There’s a lot I have never used-I never did get the hang of crochet and have yet to make a tuna casserole, but a lot of the food safety and basic cooking skills have come in handy, and I can make decent clothing repairs. I think my 30 yo son was in the last age group where home ec was required. He may not LIKE cooking, but he’ll never starve and he can sew as well.
Hey—my D19 is taking a high school home ec class right now! She’s already got plans to take over cooking dinner from me once a week from now on, so I’d say that’s a pretty useful thing right there. 
I have so many of these from my childhood. My mother and stepfather weren’t really into teaching me things (much more fun to just berate me for not knowing). Especially since I have Aspergers, so things aren’t as clear to me as they are to most people.
I never learned how to drive as a teenager (neither did my siblings). I learned to ride a motorcycle in my early 20s and learned to drive a car a bit after, but by then I was studying urban planning and geography in college, where I learned a lot about how car centric urban planning and autodependency are really, really bad for the environment. So I can’t really bring myself to commute by car, and take public transportation most places instead of driving. I’m buying a car so I can move field tools around to survey sites and do field work in places not accessible by transit, and if I have it I’ll use it to go on road trips (I have National Geographic’s Drives of a Lifetime, and I’m probably going to do several of them) or go some places I absolutely can’t by transit, but I’m probably never going to be somebody who uses a car for day to day transportation. I hate city driving, anyway, and I live in San Francisco. Meanwhile, my mother and stepfather drive everywhere.
I never learned the first thing about getting jobs. I thought No Soliciting signs meant it was illegal to ask if a place was hiring unless it had a Help Wanted sign up. I had no inclination that job interviews were something you prepared for, either.
It took my a long time and some irritated roommates to figure out dishes actually need to be washed with soap.
Also, bath towels need to be washed. Frequently.
Everything I learned about cooking, I learned from my paternal grandmother. I wasn’t allowed to so much as look at any cooking implement that wasn’t a microwave, because I obviously wasn’t to be trusted. Even when I was 20.
I learned to ride a bicycle at 21 at Job Corps (couldn’t as a teenager because it was considered far too dangerous). Now I use bicycles with some frequency, as they are a handy way of bridging gaps in public transportation coverage if you don’t want to drive.
I still find it perplexing to budget and manage money. Never had an allowance, so until Job Corps I didn’t really have money that was my money to figure out how to handle.
Didn’t know anything about taxes until Job Corps, where I learned how to fill out my tax returns by hand.
Still don’t really know how to set up social occasions with others. I had to come straight home from school every day, and I certainly wasn’t allowed to hang out with other teenagers (DANGEROUS! Also, being Autistic clearly meant to Mom that I didn’t really want to have friends and was better off that way.). Still have a very hard time creating and maintaining interpersonal relationships.