<p>abasket, are you talking about my son's wallet, or your son's wallet? If you are talking about my son's morning fiasco, thanks. It was some morning. I know this sounds just a little bit neurotic, but when we are leaving at 7:15am and don't want to forget something we needed to lay it all out last night. I was convinced that we had it all together, but I guess not.</p>
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<p>He did! In a plastic bag ;)<br>
This happens a lot when you overprepare. In the anxiety of getting everything together, you put familiar things in unfamiliar places (wallet in plastic bag) and then forget where you put it. Happens to me all the time!</p>
<p>Good luck to all test-takers today!</p>
<p>LOL, marite, I can't argue with that. He did have it all together. He just did not know it!</p>
<p>I was referring to both of us! I can imagine the moment of panic you two had!</p>
<p>Hopefully, they are (those of us on EST) now in their little test cocoon pumping out some answers!</p>
<p>Funny ~ this sounds like something that could have happened here :). Fortunately my son got out the door with everything in hand (now whether he managed to take it from his car and into the school with him is anyone's guess.)</p>
<p>Good morning, all! Deep, calming breaths........<br>
northeastmom, I hope your drive was not too treacherous. The pictures I've seen of the ice storm are amazing. I grew up on the west coast, and have only seen something similar maybe once.
"dreaded wallet fiasco" Lol. The stuff legends are made of... ;)</p>
<p>Bengal, Now I can laugh, but this morning this created, shall we say, a bit of a stressful few minute! Oh, and we are lucky, where I live there was no snow or ice. It just rained for a couple of days. I did expect black ice on the roads, but we did not come across any ice either. I did tell my son that we needed to leave a few minutes earlier than planned because I planned on driving very slowly if needed.</p>
<p>abasket, and hopefully they are pounding out the correct answers!</p>
<p>mom2010grad, I actually got out of the car and checked the back seat where son was sitting to make sure that he left nothing behind!</p>
<p>I've proctored for both SAT and ACT tests. Yes, we'll accept a yearbook photo. Sometimes a student gets lucky and one of their teachers is present to administer the test and can vouch for their identity.</p>
<p>He said the yearbook worked fine. The test wasn't at his school, but one of the staffers just said "show me your picture in the yearbook" and off he went.</p>
<p>Now HE has to start working on solving his wallet problem!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Glad that one is over. I think I'll go check out any pertinent ACT threads and see if many others thought the science section was as bad as S thought.</p>
<p>BengalMom, yes I just showed my D the stuff on the science and she feels better</p>
<p>jackief, good idea. I will show S, too, when he gets home. He and his friend called me from the car after the test and were really wound up about the science, they both kept making loud comments, talking over one another, and saying how crazy it was and how disorganized, etc. I was just hoping he would calm down a bit before driving. :)</p>
<p>This sounds so much like one of my sons -- I had to laugh. Like the frantic trip home from the airport because he forgot his notarized "authorization for minor to travel overseas unaccompanied". </p>
<p>I'm soooo thankful we've got another year before our next child starts all this :-)</p>
<p>S2 did the same thing when he took the ACT earlier this fall. When we went over the checklist the night before the test (at 10:30 pm) he informed me he no longer had a student idea. I blew up and festered about it for a while. We decided on the yearbook thing as a last resort, not knowing it was allowed by the ACT.<br>
P.S. A month or two later, he still has no picture ID. Thanks for reminding me to remind him...!</p>
<p>S2 didn't forget his ID, but he took the SAT on a day when DH was in Europe and I was clear across the country giving a workshop. He had just gotten his license 6 wks earlier and had to drive 50 miles to the next town to be there by 7:30 a.m. I knew it would be foggy. It's very desolate countryside with few houses and frequently deer in the early morning. </p>
<p>We drove it the week before so that he could see the route, there were 4 clearly marked turns between our town and test site and I had written them all down. About 20 min. before test time my cell phone rang. S2 said, "Mom, if I'm in XXX, have I gone too far?" YES! But I didn't know how far. Told him to backtrack as quickly but safely as possible. Turned out that he was looking for the bridge instead of the sign, and in the morning fog, he didn't see it! </p>
<p>Then I didn't hear anything else. After about an hour, I assumed that he made it just in time. Finally heard back at lunch time. He was not the last arrival, and fortunately, there was still a line at check in. But it was a long morning for me.</p>
<p>tango14, wow -- I would have been a total wreck. Your S is brave to tackle all that alone.</p>
<p>BengalMom, Since I was doing a workshop in front of 35 people, I couldn't think about it too much. I omitted from my previous post the thought of him in a ditch somewhere along the way. Fortunately, the road is straight as an arrow, marshy but few trees he could run into, just those pesky deer.</p>