To wonder what would happen if someone saw me? (Light-hearted)

[formerbabe]

My ds has started secondary school and I usually drop him off in the mornings? He has told me to drop him off a road before the school? He told me that this is in case someone sees me. . I'm hideously average in every imaginable way so...

Answers on a postcard please?!

I have a friend who tells a great story (may or may not be true, I like to think it is) of how her Dad dealt with this:
She was going on a school residential trip so wanted her Dad to drop her off and collect her so she did not have to carry her own case but was going through a phase of not wanting to be seen with her parents/pretending to be independent. He dropped her off at the school gates on the way there, as requested, but was given strict instructions not to wait around and that on the way back he should make sure he was on time but not approach her or anyone from school. He was to ensure he was on time and stand by the coach stop but not make any conversation with anyone, or try to approach her; she would say goodbye to her friends/finish her conversations etc then hand him her bags.

He clearly thought she was being a CF, but decided to do exactly as she asked- but dressed as a bear (outfit was apparently found in a local charity shop and sparked the plan). He stood patiently eating a bun and reading the paper, paying no attention to his DD. Whereas the whole coach were pointing and calling to him. Eventually my friend had to confess that this was infact her father.

Can't be as embarrassing as I was last week. Got to drop off a bit early had the heating on and dropped off ! Woke up to my dd knocking on the window. Half the school must have walked past.

Thankfully she some of those kids who just laughs - doesn't care what anybody else thinks x

Mine are only 6&8 but adding dressing up as a bear to my list if ways to embarrass my teenagers in a few years.

I'm allowed right up to the door preens obviously I'm the coolest Mum ever! but DD doesn't ever acknowledge the fact that I say 'Love you!' just before she exits the car She knows if she was ever truly naughty, I'd start saying things like 'totes emosh amazeballs babes' in front of her friends!

This thread is hilarious and reminds me of a conversation I had recently with MIL about how mean DH was when he was a teenager. One day he was exceptionally rude and as punishment she answered the door to his friends doing her Gollum impression. Love her!

I had a teen like this. One day we were in in Boots, teen being in full on sullen mode. I loudly exclaimed "mustn't forget to ask the pharmacist about your NASTY RASH!"

I was also the one dancing to the music in supermarkets.

I have to do the same with ds year 10, and have done since year 7. Don’t they make you feel loved, wanted, gorgeous and just fantastic about yourself? Lol

Sometimes I am told I am talking too loud or walking too slow (serious crimes) by DD14. I find a fairly loud "Mam, yes Mam!" gets her off by back for a while.

Pleased to see I'm not the only one whose mere existence is a source of embarrassment then!

My son said I breathe in an embarrassing way What is my alternative

Aaaah..... this brings back memories....... DS is now 25....... when he was 15 after his truancy had escalated to the threatening letter stage I started walking him to school myself - we had great bonding time and conversations actually but he would detach and scuttle at the gate...... I then discovered he was, more often than not, going in through the front and back out across the playing fields..... fun times...... I still make it a game to call him by stupid over affectionate names in public but he now accepts it with grace - and so do lots of his close friends :D It's become somewhat of a signature.......

I once offered DS's friend a lift home in the rain. I'm not allowed to do that again. I can only talk to the friends he's known since primary school, not the ones he's made since high school.

Reminds me of this awesome dad. 🤣

Revenge. 🤣🤣🤣

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My school was part of a music programme at school, where we were (extraordinarily, for an inner city comprehensive) given tickets to the ENO near Trafalgar Square.

The school journey would start in the evening at the tube station nearest the school and we would dress up nicely. Coz, opera, innit.

It was a rough area and, one winter's evening, I was not going to be allowed out of the front door by myself.

Dad had a mate with him who could drive and the tube station was close to a motorway slip road that headed towards the driver's home.

So, on his way home from work, Dad's mate drove me to the tube station.

In a gigantic, turning cement truck.

I had to hope out, in a velvet dress, high heels, fake fur coat and a little handbag, with Dad shouting out from the middle passenger seat that he'd collect me when I gave him a call from the phone box.

Thanks Dad.

hop out.

Yup

Another thread dead as a doornail.

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The bear dad is a legend. I'm already establishing with my children that I have no shame.

They've shown me up in public enough (and continue to do so), I await my revenge eagerly.

@Gingernaut

Nope, I'm back! Was temporarily in hiding as something dreadful happened yesterday. A boy from his year walked past the car whilst we were sitting in traffic on our way school. As you can imagine my ds is devastated

Thoughts and prayers for your DS, OP>

DD1 is only 6 but was mortified in France when we spoke English in the supermarket. She kept hissing at us to shut up.

We ate a lot of saucisson, pomme de terre et jus d'orange that week. My French is limited, and that's a generous assessment.

Oh my!

I hope he's got a brilliant therapist!

That kind of trauma can carry on to adulthood! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Ds2 was mortified a few months ago when I sang "You ain't never had a friend like me" very loudly at him when walking back to his flat at 10pm after seeing Aladdin. He's 23. I told him I was his Mumma and it was my job to embarrass him! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

I remember DS as a teen ringing me from the bus stop one day to say the mini bus hadn't arrived and he'd be late for school so could he please have lift. I drove to the bus stop to collect him and asked the other children (who all knew me) if any of them wanted a lift too. A couple of them jumped in. The silence in the car for the 5 mile journey was deafening and I could feel DS's eyes on me in a "don't you dare speak" threat the whole way to school.

Went shopping in Tesco with DGD age 13. She was very quiet throughout. When packing the car after she pointed out a boy doung similar with his parent. Admitted it was the new boyfriend. But I was not to look or speak. Packed car got in. Then drove all the way back round the carpark till we drew level. Then opened window beeped the horn and and called "Yooohoo boys name. I'm DGD grannie nice to meet you" Boyfriends Mum looked up and grinned. Both 13 year old looked like they wanted to die. DGD shut herself in her room and wouldn't speak to me till she got hungry. Oh the fun. Brought back her lying screamed on the floor if Tesco ten years previously.