Texts from your College Freshman

[JCSR]

First few weeks away from home is hard but also raises a lot of questions. Here are a few good ones.

I do have Medicare, right?

Are we Hispanic?

When is fall break?

Should I fly First Class to Mexico or drive?

I'm OK really, just been studying a lot.

Does car insurance go up after the first accident?
What if no one got hurt?
I wasn't actually driving so does that help?

Please feel free to add yours.

 

[rem788]

Calls from college students:
Son: Dad! My car got towed!
Dad: Really, how did that happen?
Son: I don't know, I've parked in that no parking spot a hundred times and never got towed!
Dad: LOL, did you hear what just you said?

Daughter: Dad! I had a fender bender and my car got towed to the impound lot.
Dad: Ok, we will come up and get it out.
Arrive at lot, pay fee, get in car. Engine cranks but will not start. GRRRRR, open hood, then think to ask daughter " What does gas gauge say?"
Daughter: Well it says just above empty but I know there is gas in it, I drive it all the time like this.
Dad: GRRRRRRRRRRRR, proceed to go purchase gas can, get gas and put in car. Car starts right up.

 

[jwamplerusa]

Daughter: Well it says just above empty but I know there is gas in it, I drive it all the time like this.
Dad: GRRRRRRRRRRRR, proceed to go purchase gas can, get gas and put in car. Car starts right up.

Did she live?

 

[Twangbanger]

"They're going to cancel my registration if you don't pay $11,523 by Monday"

 

[Leo]

I was given a number of letters that my wife mailed home when she was in college. (yes there was a time before emails and before texting)

They mostly followed this pattern:

Hi, I am having a lot of fun.

I dropped a class because it was too hard.

I ate in a really nice restaurant, it is expensive but so good.

I met a new guy that is taking me to a concert on Saturday.

My roommate and I are having a lot of fun playing tennis,

I think I am going to take a few days off class for a road trip.

And the number one recurring line; "My checking account is almost empty, can you have daddy put at least $250 more in it, I have to buy some school stuff."

 

[tmschuller]

Phone rings: Dad… yes Kate.. my car won’t start..Me: ok Kate, tell me what it’s doing…. Kate: it might be because I left the lights on for 5 hours…Me: well Kate your battery is dead. Kate: no Dad I turned the lights off. Me: Kate you drained the the battery so the car won’t start Kate : we’ll that’s stupid why would they make cars like that… long silence while I took a deep breath and went and got the jump pack

 

[patience0830]

Phone rings: Dad… yes Kate.. my car won’t start..Me: ok Kate, tell me what it’s doing…. Kate: it might be because I left the lights on for 5 hours…Me: well Kate your battery is dead. Kate: no Dad I turned the lights off. Me: Kate you drained the the battery so the car won’t start Kate : we’ll that’s stupid why would they make cars like that… long silence while I took a deep breath and went and got the jump pack

This is a training issue. Problem is, you didn't train her.

 

[JCSR]

This is a training issue. Problem is, you didn't train her.

Some of that species are untrainable. I married one.

 

[Creedmoor]

Not near as much fun as letters home from MCRD Parris Island.
All of us are Aug babies, all turned 18 at basic.
Send your sons 48 mini pink and purple cupcakes along with my lilttle pony plates for their birthday. The letters the next week are truly worthy.
Dad, I can stand in line longer than any swinging dick on this base. He was shortly tested.
Dad, Im the only one on my barracks floor that knows how to use a washer an dryer.
Dad, Ive been spit on so much, it just feels like rain.

 

[rem788]

"Did she live?"
Yes, she survived, but had to listen to a Dad lecture about keeping the gas tank full.

 

[tmschuller]

This is a training issue. Problem is, you didn't train her.

Well my friend that is not correct. Both of my girls had many hours of driving in different conditions. Made to change a flat tire.. their own oil.. wipers. What idiot lights mean..
Just to clarify
Problem was when it came to common sense she did not use her problem solving skills.. I didn’t let her get her license until she was 17-1/2 years old.
On the road of life common sense was in a car driving the opposite direction and Katie was standing on the side of the road waving at it as it went by.
Could have it been you too were there assuming I didn’t do my job as well

 

[patience0830]

Well my friend that is not correct. Both of my girls had many hours of driving in different conditions. Made to change a flat tire.. their own oil.. wipers. What idiot lights mean..
Just to clarify
Problem was when it came to common sense she did not use her problem solving skills.. I didn’t let her get her license until she was 17-1/2 years old.
On the road of life common sense was in a car driving the opposite direction and Katie was standing on the side of the road waving at it as it went by.
Could have it been you too were there assuming I didn’t do my job as well

I'd have gladly helped. But I understand the inability to think and perform at ones best when under duress. Please accept my apologies for assuming training was inadequate.

 

[Nazgul]

Sitting in a room with several hundred other parents at Ball State. It was a Q&A about the first semester at school and what to expect. The advisor asked " What do you say when you get the frantic call at 3 AM the first week the students are here because they are alone and afraid?". She then shoved the mic in my face.......I said " Sorry you have the wrong number".

Don

 

[tmschuller]

I'd have gladly helped. But I understand the inability to think and perform at ones best when under duress. Please accept my apologies for assuming training was inadequate.

No worries.. at all. No harsh tones implied. I am grateful to share and hear back from anyone here on INGO.