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<p>Oh, no! But you and he now know what to do, right?</p>
<p>Cheers - your S should meet my D - she lost her wallet THREE times this last year - once she just left it sitting on the seat of her car while she was in school all day. I’m sure it had a note “Steal me, please!” taped on it that some kid read and acted on.</p>
<p>Then she left her purse at the British Museum by the books in the gift shop where she was reading. </p>
<p>And the last was at her beau’s house - now she thinks it’s still there but it has been over 6 months and still has not turned up.</p>
<p>But I can’t say anything because she is so thin-skinned these days…</p>
<p>Hey Cheers; my DD is China for a month teaching ESL at a summer camp. I told her to wear her passport and money belt under her clothes, and she’s trying. It is so absolutely humid and hot there (no ac in the classrooms) that she says Houston feels positively balmy in comparison. Hope your son’s credit card was not stolen and used. :(</p>
<p>Each time S1 calls to tell us the card is missing, he makes some suggestion about theft. We know better. He loses them.</p>
<p>Card cancelled. New card rush ordered. Money sent Western Union. New card pinned and Fedexed. What did robyrm’s mum say? Throw money at the problem? Yup. We know what to do alright. </p>
<p>**Sorry crash. Your D is not on my wish list as a potential DIL! Can you imagine the two of them together? Crikey.</p>
<p>***Finally asked S2 about the half case of beer. “What beer? Oh, that belongs to ___. I am storing it for him” </p>
<p>Why would you do that? “I don’t know. He asked me to.”</p>
<p>17-year-old S, the absent-minded professor, just ordered his second bank card in about a month. And two weeks ago, he “waited” too long to take $200 in cash out of the ATM, and it got sucked back into the machine and recorded against his younger sister’s account (he was doing me a favor by withdrawing from it). Took weeks to get it straightened out. </p>
<p>Me: “What in the world were you doing while machine was beeping at you to take the cash??” </p>
<p>Him: “I don’t know, it happened really fast.” </p>
<p>Riiiiight.</p>
<p>Sigh. He needs an organized girlfriend to stand beside him for the rest of his life and poke him, saying “Grab the cash!” And not just at ATM machines, if you know what I mean. :)</p>
<p>LOLOLOLOL!!! Ahhhh! My son needs this sort of GF too!!</p>
<p>momof2inca - Priceless. Who knew they sucked the money back up? Your S seems primed to have many experiences unfamiliar to the rest of us. Life in the slow lane.</p>
<p>I am signing up for a clone of the above-mentioned GF for my S as well…</p>
<p>Mine may have found one–much huzzahs at our house. Not only organized, but she studies more than he does, too.</p>
<p>Not sure why she puts up with him…:)</p>
<p>My S already knows that he needs someone to keep him organized - told me he plans to marry someone who can keep track of things for him. Still looking - good thing he’s cute.</p>