Friday, February 11, 2011

Caught in the snowstorm with nowhere to go.

Have you ever been so mad at your child, you lock YOURSELF in a room?

That’s where I was on Wednesday.

I had been at work for an hour already, when my cell phone went off. I didn’t recognize the number, so I ignored it. (I don’t answer phone calls that I don’t know what the number is, I don’t really listen to voicemails other than to get rid of the icon on my phone, and I don’t friend accept people on Facebook I don’t know, so if you “friend” me, then please include a little message that you read my blog or I will reject you.)

So anyway, whoever it was kept calling, and I guess my “mommy radar” must have gone off, because when I answered it, this woman was like, “Do you have a son named Taylor?” At this point, I did the roll of the eyes, “Oh SHIT, WHAT NOW.” Then she proceeded to tell me she had found my son, out walking around the neighborhood IN A BLIZZARD, crying, so she let him come in to call me. I got her address, and after letting my boss know that I was going to strangle my child, I went over and picked him up.

I got him home and I guess he could tell by the steam that was shooting out of my ears, that I was pretty mad. So he started explaining that he had gone back to the house from the bus stop to get his backpack and the bus came. He didn’t have his house key, nor his cell phone on him…so instead of going directly to our neighbor, he decides to walk around the neighborhood to try to find Gavin’s best friends’ house. FOR AN HOUR.The thing is, he has missed the bus several times this year because of going back to the house for things. But we only live twenty feet from the bus stop, so I don’t know how he doesn’t see the bus coming?!!

I just ended up taking him home instead of school, because it was snowing so good that I had a feeling school would be canceled, and it would be a waste of an hour if I drove him all the way out there. Thankfully, they did cancel school about an hour later.

My question is…why can’t we pay to get our kids micro-chipped? I mean, then we could go online and track them when they are playing outside, that our teenagers are where they say they are, and if they were kidnapped, we would know where they were! We could even hook it up to Foursquare, so they could check in along the way. “Taylor has checked in to XYZ Middle School”

This is why I made Andy get a vasectomy.



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13 comments:

  1. I feel your pain & hope next week is better for you.

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  2. I too feel your pain. My youngest son, 6, is stuck with wearing one of my winter coats this week because he left his coat in Utah last week. It's sub-zero weather here in Colorado and in Utah. Where the hell was his coat when we were getting in the car to come home? This is a child I have to remind on a daily basis to put on shoes before he goes outside into the snow.

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  3. I think kiddie microchips are a great idea!

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  4. Hubby wants to get the little one chipped too!

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  5. How do you forget your backpack when headed out to the bus stop? Maybe I'll wait awhile longer on kids. I don't know if I'm ready for days like that.

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  6. This is why I seriously doubt the child will be driving at age 16. The fun of Aspergers makes him like an 8 year old instead of a 12 year old.

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  7. KIDS! lol Glad he was safe in the end. You might be onto something with microchipping!

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  8. Get him a cellphone: ) They all have GPS and makes them easily trackable: ) And then duct tape it to their arm: )

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  9. He has a cellphone. And a housekey. Maybe we need to add a biometric lock to the house. He can just scan his eyeball.

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  10. How old is your son? My oldest is 13 and I swear my four year old is more responsible. He forgets everything and somehow it's my fault when it happens. There are many a time that with the kids I call a time out and it's because I need to lock myself in a room before I am not a nice person. gaahh!!!

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  11. That is really funny! Thanks for stopping by doll! Your bloggy is adorable.

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  12. I have a 13 year old as well who prefers to go to school with only a sweatshirt. Which wouldn't be a problem if we lived in a southern clime, but we live in NEW HAMPSHIRE for goodness sake, and it's, like, -0 degrees here some mornings at 6:30 a.m. when he needs to go to the bus stop. He actually took off his winter coat in front of me when I dropped him off at the bus stop the other day - as soon as he closed the car door! Love the micro chip idea! I've got four and it would be great to know there whereabouts at all times.

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  13. I really shouldn't laugh, but it is truly more funny when it happens to someone else's kids! I'm still trying to figure out why they let a sock monster into first grade.... She goes to school every day with them on, and they are gone forever 6 hours later!

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