<p>S told me he had gone shopping and bought black olives, dill pickles, and anchovies. I asked him why because he has always refused to eat these foods. His answer: “I decided that I would eat the whole jar and try to develop a taste for them by the time I’m finished.” Decided he likes kosher dill pickle spears only, forget the olives, and he may need to eat more anchovies to decide.</p>
<p>^are you sure he’s not pregnant?</p>
<p>D texted me last week at 3AM to say she had just had the scariest bike ride of her life.</p>
<p>S…well, let’s just say there are far too many of jaw-dropping moments of the type Packmom alluded to earlier.</p>
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<p>I think a man with dishpan hands is sexier…</p>
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<p>Yup–this made me laugh!</p>
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<p>I like this phrase from mommusic. College is a great time for experiencing life totally outside the box. You may decide to get back inside the box or you may find something that takes you down a different path. I’m glad to see so many kids taking the plunge.</p>
<p>My D has a radio show at school … not something I would have expected. </p>
<p>S just started college, so he still has time to surprise me. I did get a good laugh today when he called to find out if he should wash his boxers on delicate. ;)</p>
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<p>That is so cute; it shows that there is still the child in the young adult. It is also a reminder that no matter the age, they still occasionally need our advice and instructions!</p>
<p>Haha, talking about doing laundry, my son learned to do his clothes with some very meticulous gay roommates from a summer program. So, now he tells me he has to get the laundry folded as soon as the drying stops or else the clothes will be wrinkled. When he was living at home, he would not even put clothes into the hamper first to bring them up from the basement for folding upstairs. He stayed in our dank, cramped and dark basement to fold clothes instead of folding them from the comfort of his bed or the sofa. Wonder what he is doing now? At least he is a step up now in the dorm - no basements to march up and down and elevators available to the laundry room(s).</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the thread from a couple years ago, “Unexpected Questions from our kids”? Not always jaw droppers, but some awfully funny stories. The all time classic I think is 07DAD (post #92) and his account of his son at the airport …</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/561214-unexpected-questions-our-kids-5.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/561214-unexpected-questions-our-kids-5.html</a></p>
<p>DS and his friends earned money playing music at a local pedestrian mall. They did it for fun, and I didn’t think there would be enough money in the hat to cover their ice cream bill. But they collected enough to cover their four dinner bills.</p>
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<p>Personally, I would have to agree.<br>
I work with kids at the high school in an EC where they are in the shop… lots of math & science. There was a beautiful young lady last year that was having trouble with the double standard sometimes placed on women in science, math, & engineering. The advise about woman being sexy in a tool belt was to lift her up. It was followed by the fact that she needed to look past the neanderthal thought process and insecurities of men who felt threatened when they found she was clearly more gifted in certain areas. I assured her there would come a time in her career where this would level out, but for now, wear it with pride, knowing she could blow past any of them.</p>
<p>S joined a rock-climbing club & actually became president. He says he did a lot of camping & “climbs” while in college. They even climbed with a prof from Italy and he may go & visit him. This from someone who NEVER climbed higher than a jungle gym before!</p>
<p>Also heard from his landlord he’s so helpful & handy around the apartment. He came home & has begun to clean our house (which really needs it) like a man possessed!</p>
<p>D asked (earnestly) whether she really HAD to wash her clothes before storing it, after all it’s only for the summer?!?!?! Brother & we insisted yes, she HAD to wash everything rather than stink up their joint possessions (they were sharing storage space). We spent our night in a hotel in beautiful Santa Barbara washing clothes 
Didn’t see anything other than the restaurant and their washer/dryer there.</p>
<p>D took up fencing (not that surprised, she had always thought it was a “cool” sport, tho she had never had a chance to do it before college. S took a course in sailing.</p>
<p>Oh yea, the jaw-dropper was when S called us in despair on the morning of college graduation, saying he burnt his graduation sash. It seems he was trying to “iron” out the wrinkles in it using a heated frying pan & it caused the synthetic material to melt!</p>
<p>Our jaw-dropper was what my D’s classmate did. This kid had tons of research experience and stellar grades at a top school. He was offered several great internships last summer, but he chose the internship that my D coveted. Several days before he was to start the internship, he got drunk and fell down a flight of stairs, breaking both legs. Imagine my D’s surprise when she got a phone call from the company telling her the other kid had to turn down the internship at the last minute so they were offering the internship to her. She was ecstatic. </p>
<p>And even better? After D completed the internship, the company offered her a full-time position with excellent salary and benefits upon her graduation next spring.</p>
<p>Amazing how one kid’s stupidity could so negatively impact his life, yet have such positive repercussions for someone else.</p>
<p>From Zetesis’ link, has got to be my favorite all time CC quote:</p>
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<p>Great thread. Where to start? LOL</p>
<p>Mudding walls and generally throwing herself into rehabbing homes (I couldn’t get her to pick up a hammer previously) among other community service activities such as restoring gravesites; interviewing total strangers in Audubon Park.</p>
<p>What if my elders try to tell me the world is flat. Do I have to wait to correct them on that?</p>
<p>post #76. Why bother? No need to correct them. Give yourself a few decades and you will understand.</p>
<p>Last spring college senior status son made his own travel arrangements from his college town to the west coast for a family wedding he was part of. We went the week before to include a vacation. He emailed us his itinerary, which I printed and took with me. I was proud of his first time doing all of the booking- he managed to not miss any classes (red eye return flight), got good deals and even arranged his first solo cab ride to the airport. Fortunately for him I had the printout in my purse that Friday afternoon when he made a cell phone call-</p>
<p>“Mom, which airline am I using?” This was from the airport. A small one so it wasn’t difficult to get from one airline to another, but…</p>
<p>Gave him the info, including his airline and flight number for the second leg of the journey. He has never needed to own a printer. He usually had enough extra pages from a comp sci class to take care of any needs on a campus computer for free. The morning of the day he left he was going to print out his itinerary. He apparently was in the math building and any printing would have appeared at some other unkown floor in the building plus he had to print some assignment in limited time between classes and chose that with the remainder of his free printing alottment or some such explanation. At least school, not the trip, was his priority.</p>
<p>I gave him my copy of his travel info for his return flights. He also forgot to charge his simple cell phone and forgot its charger- it ran out of power that Saturday, complicating being in touch with him when he was with the wedding party, etc. We all got new cell phones recently- all different brands but now they include a charging cord with a USB end and universal micro or mini end that works interchangeably. Now could use a computer or other brand- it could be slower but at least would work if the proper charger cord is forgotten.</p>
<p>My S2 signed up for a scuba diving class and stuck us with the $250 “lab fee.”</p>
<p>And how could we forget the 235-lb TV he bought for his dorm room?</p>
<p>My d was giving laundry lessons this morning :eek:</p>
<p>She did all her laundry this summer but I wouldn’t call her an expert - guess it’s all relative :rolleyes:</p>