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I need loads of people to tell me I am being a loon, please.

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Hakluyt · 10/04/2015 00:39

I dropped my ds off at his friend's house tonight. He is going on holiday with them for a week.

I don't really know the parents. We have shared lifts to an extracurricular activity but that's it. The friend has been to ours lots and ds has been to theirs lots. They are lovely people and the friend is lovely. And he will have th best time ever. But he is my baby boy.He is 14!!They are going to sell him to white slavers, aren't they? He is 14!! He gets very homesick, and only started to do sleepovers without angst very recently He is 14!!

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ninetynineonehundred · 10/04/2015 14:57
JugglingLife · 10/04/2015 15:02

I have a lovely completely fucking irritating and doing my head in 7 year old that I could send your way to take your mind off things? I wouldn't mind, honest. SmileWink

BoyFromTheBigBadCity · 10/04/2015 15:47

Op you're a complete loon but you've really made me laugh.

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Hakluyt · 10/04/2015 19:39

He hasn't texted. He has become a victim of the mysterious "anything" that can happen if a mother takes her eyes off her child for a second...........

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OinkBalloon · 10/04/2015 20:16

OMG Shock You know what's happened, don't you?

He's having - TOO MUCH FUN!

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Hakluyt · 10/04/2015 22:00

Too much fun to text his mummy? I pity my future daughter in law, I really do...........

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sosix · 10/04/2015 22:02

I will be doing the same with dd 13 in a few months. I don't really know the parents. blanks it out

HellKitty · 10/04/2015 22:05

Please stop worrying about the white slave traders!

It's selling him to the circus is what you need to be worrying about.

YawnyMcYawn · 10/04/2015 22:08

You are definitely being a loon. He's 14.

pressone · 10/04/2015 22:12

Don't worry about the slave traders or alien abductions worry about the socks.

DS went on a long weekend (5 day) rugby tour aged 14. Wore the same pair of socks and pants throughout - He's 29 now, but I still remember the stench infiltrating the whole upstairs when he returned.

CaptainFabulous · 10/04/2015 22:15

He'll be too busy re-enacting The Inbetweeners to text his mum Grin

BertieBotts · 10/04/2015 22:24
Grin

DH always gets very "hopeful" whenever DS goes off to something alone for the first time. Apparently I have a history of being nervous so he hopes that he gets a chance to "calm me down" Hmm Blush

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Hakluyt · 11/04/2015 09:09

Ok.

All suggestions duly noted and acted on. Little sod still hasn't texted. He is so toast when he gets home.

And neither have the parents. Now, I would have texted when I got there if I was them. Wouldn't you?

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londonrach · 11/04/2015 09:20

Hugs op. Im 99.9 % sure he snug as a bug in his bed having spent all night chatting with his friend. The other 1% he and friend and family are already up and out to see the sites... locate the white slave traders, circles, mother ship....

Stitchintime1 · 11/04/2015 09:26

In addition to slavers and aliens and fierce currents, there will also be the timess when he will need something something and you won't be there. For maybe a minute. A whole minute. There might even be times when he isn't wearing the right shoes for the beach. Or it's early evening and he hasn't put a jumper on and the nights can be a little chilly. We're all loons where our children are concerned.

Stitchintime1 · 11/04/2015 09:27

One something. I am so rubbish at typing.

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Hakluyt · 12/04/2015 00:01

He rang me this afternoon- no mobile signal or wifi where they're staying. Which of course I know all along, perfectly obvious- why would anyone think any different? He's absolutely fine, having alovely time. Which of course I knew all along- why would anyone think any different? White slavers? Surely nobody mentioned white slavers........ ?

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Glittermud · 12/04/2015 00:08

I went away camping with my friend and her parents when I was 14. It was great, although I'll never forget the morning I was mocked by her < tiny> mother for wearing 'big man pants'. I was a size 12.

He'll be missing you in some small ways Wink

ThatBloodyWoman · 12/04/2015 00:16

Its a cover.
They're making him tell you he's fine.
Don't believe the no signal stuff.
How could you have let it happen?

ThatBloodyWoman · 12/04/2015 00:17

Of course you're being a loon!

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Hakluyt · 12/04/2015 00:21

He did ask me to send him some more money to buy a body board-he's being held hostage, isn't he? It's a lie about the body board...........

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stoopstoconker · 12/04/2015 00:26

depends how much money he's asked for, and whether it needs to be in unsequential used notes...apparently

ThatBloodyWoman · 12/04/2015 00:29

Have you got to go alone and meet a bloke at 4.30pm by the newspaper stand outside the chippy to hand over the cash?

TowerRavenSeven · 12/04/2015 00:32

He will be fine. Ds is a year younger and has a lovely best friend. I don't know the parents well either, I've met father once and am on acquaintance level with the mom and they both seem lovely as well. I'd feel just as you do but deep down would know he would be just fine.

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Hakluyt · 12/04/2015 00:40

"Have you got to go alone and meet a bloke at 4.30pm by the newspaper stand outside the chippy to hand over the cash?"

Good lord, no, it's not 1935! I just have to transfer it to his Osper card from my phone.....

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