The Police and My Teen Daughter
It’s the police!
That, a text message sent by my teen daughter, not twenty minutes after she left for astronomy class. WTF!?
Had she gotten into an accident? Was she pulled over for a driving offense? Did she get another parking ticket?
What’s going on? I texted back.
Silence.
I shifted into worried-dad overdrive. I figured I could drive to her class, and if she was there, I’d have nothing to worry about. But if that was the case and she was fine, she would have texted me back.
If she wasn’t in class, no telling where she might be. She had her own loopy ways of getting around. I wondered – was she experiencing her own Book ‘em, Danno moment?
I’ve been pulled over a few times in my life. Running a stop sign when I was sixteen (I contested it in court, and won!) Speeding in my twenties (traffic school for me.) Plus two sobriety checks as an adult (I was totally sober both times. Cops get bored around here.)
I figured if my daughter had the wherewithal to text me about the police, she couldn’t be that far gone.
Unless she was in custody, and that lone text was her one phone call.
Two hours later, my daughter came home from class.
“What happened with the police?” I asked.
“Our instructor was playing some song in class, and I was trying to guess who it was,” she said. “It sounded like Sting, but I couldn’t remember the band he was in. And then the instructor told us!”
The Police.
“Why did you text me that?” I asked.
“I thought you’d be excited,” she said. “I know you like them.”
Thoughtful of her, though I could have used a bit longer text message.
“Okay, what was the song,” I said.
“It’s astronomy class,” she said. Then she grinned. “Walking on the Moon!”
Giant steps are what you take…
The Police, Walking on the Moon video, cheesy lip sync on a groovy moonscape
OR
The Police Walking on the Moon Original Video
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Comment by debra
| October 16th, 2009
What’s the punishment these days for giving your father a heart attack? :)
Comment by Just Me...
| October 16th, 2009
Mine was with my 8 year old, who was being cared for by my 69 year old mother while I was out of town on business. As only an 8 y/o girl could, she said excitedly ‘There’s water everywhere’ and hung up.. Three unanswered phone calls later (about a minute and a half total), my mother answers and says that it was raining and dear daughter thought it was cool that there was water in the dry creek bed behind the house….
No broken pipes, no flash floods..
Just a little runoff from a rain shower… :)
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Comment by Mindy/Single Mom Says...
| October 16th, 2009
Gotta love how kids communicate!
Did you tell her what your thoughts were? I think she owes you one.
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Comment by T
| October 16th, 2009
OMG! That’s hilarious!
You poor thing. I’d be freakin’ out too.
But I do love me some Sting. And Walking on the Moon is one of my favorite Police songs.
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Comment by Senorita
| October 16th, 2009
I did something similar to my dad over the summer while visiting. I went out shopping in our small town and told him I would be back for dinner. Not thinking, I took a little longer and didn’t come back until after. Because I didn’t get phone reception he actually drove out to look for me in town, but didn’t have to because I pulled in just as he was leaving.
He chewed my ass out twice. Once in private and again in front of my grandmother.
You’re too nice. She needs to know how worried you made her.
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Comment by BigLittleWolf
| October 16th, 2009
I feel for you. They do these things on purpose you know. It ages us. Fortunately, we’re still hangin’ in… with a sense of humor, and then some.
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Comment by Cathy
| October 16th, 2009
You reacted in a logical manner. How do men do that?
Me, I’d have been in the car, in a complete panic and imagining the worse. Wouldn’t have stopped until I found her.
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Comment by Andrea
| October 16th, 2009
You just have to love kids…right?
At least she didn’t actually get arrested!
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Comment by Vinomom
| October 16th, 2009
Gotta love it – I think Mindy is right she definitely owes you one! They never think anything through!
Comment by Daddy Geek Boy
| October 16th, 2009
That is simultaneously cool and horrifying.
Comment by Mark
| October 16th, 2009
Too little information. Interesting of course how are mind seems to gravitate towards the worst possibilities.
Comment by Heather
| October 17th, 2009
LOL I’m glad she wasn’t in trouble!!!
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Comment by Sandy
| October 17th, 2009
Clever! Great song BTW
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Comment by krn
| October 17th, 2009
Hahaha…. yeah, she owes you a pizza or something for giving you a scare! Funny to read about, though~
Comment by Laura
| October 18th, 2009
bwahahahaha that is only something a child would do :)
Glad it was the REAL police!
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Comment by Keith Wilcox
| October 18th, 2009
Yeah, what is it with people thinking we can read their minds? My wife does stuff like that too. She’ll call and say something completely cryptic like “Doctor said no” when I had no Idea anybody was at the doctor and don’t have a clue what she could be referring to. Anyway, scary for you, but also a bit humorous.
Comment by Cathouse Teri
| October 19th, 2009
I’m sticking with my original story. Your daughter needs a serious lesson about the importance of responding to her father.
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Comment by Joker_SATX
| October 21st, 2009
ROTFLMAO!
Comment by Brian
| October 22nd, 2009
Too funny! So, this is the kind of scare tactic my 3-year-old daughter will lovingly employ on me one day when she grows up, huh? I can’t wait! LOL!! Those comments (above) from Just me… and Keith Wilcox were great, too! Thanks, I needed a laugh today! :)
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Comment by Travis
| October 25th, 2009
That is a really funny story.
I agree about the logical statement. I don’t get overly emotional about things, and then just work to correct them after I hear what’s going on.
My son txted me saying he was arrested. His buddy stole a cd from Walmart and he got sucked in too. All I did was be very casual. Once I knew what was going on. We had a sitdown and a long chat…
All he said was “Got arrested”.
I was “What?” “What happened?”
…. [ nothing ]
“What’s going on, where are you?”
…. [ nothing ]
“I will make a call into the police.”
.. “it’s okay. but you need to come pick me up”
Sigh… there was way too many pauses in there, as he was txting with handcuffs on. and didn’t want them to know.
I didn’t know how to feel about that, so I ignored it. as I was glad to hear from him.
But we had a really long (2am) talk about what happened.
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