panicing moms tend to be SCs

[thehippie777]

This one both made me laugh inside & made me wonder if I had stumbled upon one of Gravekeeper's previous customers or something as strange.

Anywho.

Lady comes whooshing to the desk looking a bit stressed & in a panic.

SC: Where are your breakfast bags? (it's 4am, I set them out usually around 5am, even though our sign says 530am)
Me: Oh, well I don't have them out yet but I can get you some. How many do you need?
SC: TWO
Me: Okay (They are a food item, so hence not found at the desk but in the pantry which is beside the desk but I don't have direct access. Guests often crowd the desk waiting for me as I peel out from behind the desk to get into the pantry. I grab the bags & she is in the pantry door way blocking me.)
SC: Oh. Do you have like milk or anything like that?
Me: um...yeah we sure do but it's in jugs (she moves out of doorway as I place down the breakfast bags & grab some thermal coffee cups) but I can put a glass in one of these & use a lid. Is 2% okay?
SC: Do you have whole?
Me: No we (lady get out of my way! geez!) only have 2% and skim.
SC: That's fine. Okay, I need two. My son needs something to drink because he will be on a plan all day. (Now when she said son, I picured a child...like 12 or something) We have to be at the airport in 20 minutes *said in a bit of a panic*
Me: (she like watches my every move & is rather figity, from the pantry entrance, it was a bit unnerving) Okay *lid cups*, here are those. And *hand her breakfast bags*
SC: Oh, thank you! My son is 6'3" and all grown up. He hasn't flown before & he told me I am not allowed to go past security so he told me not to cry...

Me: oh *I laugh a little* okay....
SC: Okay. *seems to have a brain pause* Thank you! (and procedes to mock 9 it down the hallway)


For some reason her wanting to rush me was really annoying, but by the end of it I picture this grown man with his mommy dressing him...so I laughed a little.

[kendiara]

One of my daughters friends is 6'2" and says he's all grown up, and he's 14. Your babies are always your babies lol. However staying out of the way of the person who's helping you is not only polite but a lot safer too.

[South Texan]

SC: Oh, thank you! My son is 6'3" and all grown up. He hasn't flown before & he told me I am not allowed to go past security so he told me not to cry...

Ya gotta love Moms with strong maternal drives like that. They at least mean well.

Odds are the son is pretty happy to get loose from those apron strings for a little while.

[AdamaGeist]

Somehow, I don't see the immature-child in how you described the mother. Instead, I'm seeing the overdoting-mother. After all, if her son had to tell her not to cry when they seperated at security?

[candyshopgirl]

Good lord,the only time I delt with a panicing mom....was when a woman and her son stayed in the hotel but.....He was going to be shipped to Iraq the next day.She had a Really good reason.I don't think I've ever seen someone that upset in my life.She was shaking so bad that she couldn't pull money out of her purse.I broke my own rule that day and gave the woman a hug and told her that it would be alright.But come on your son flying alone on a airplane

[tamezin]

For some reason her wanting to rush me was really annoying, but by the end of it I picture this grown man with his mommy dressing him...so I laughed a little.

Let's be a little fair here. My son just turned 12 he is 5'8", he gets to go on a plane alone for the first time this summer (non-stop flight) to see his grandmother. You can bet momma's busting out the kleenix.

[imal'sheva]

Forgive us mothers, we sometimes over protect.

My two daughters were going to fly from Israel to my parents in the US when they were 16 and 17. As English is not their first language and they had never flown before, I was really worried, especially as they had a stop over in Newark (take the luggage off the plane, go through customs and then have the luggage put back on the plane for the second leg of the journey).

I read on the El Al site, that for a payment, minors can be taken care of by flight crew and escorted to the other side. When at the El Al office, I discussed it with the clerk. She looked at my daughters and asked me if these were the ones flying. I told her that they were.

She leaned over her desk and whispered into my ear, "Mom, they are all grown up."

Little whipper snapper was right !!!!!!!!! And guess what, they made the entire trip all by themselves and I did not have a heart attack.

[tropicsgoddess]

Kinda sounds like something Marie Barone would do and say.

[Dreamstalker]

My mom got past the panicking stage when I managed to navigate a stopover in O'Hare (geez I hate that airport) at 14...granted, I was an "unaccompanied minor" and had airline personnel making sure I got where I was supposed to be and she had got me a cell phone with instructions to call her when I could.

Some parents can be really overprotective. I knew a girl in high school whose mother homeschooled her and didn't really like her "associating with city dwellers" (me).

[technical.angel]

Heck, I was 25, and my Mom was panicing about my trip to the frozen North.

But, who could blame her when I was meeting up with such scary characters as Ree, GateKeeper and Raps.

[MoxisPilot]

Her son may well have been heading off to boot camp or his first deployment, or moving to a new home out of state.

I'd cry.

[Rapscallion]

But, who could blame her when I was meeting up with such scary characters as Ree, GateKeeper and Raps.

Rawr.

Rapscallion

[thehippie777]

Her son may well have been heading off to boot camp or his first deployment, or moving to a new home out of state.

I'd cry.

If he were, I am pretty sure proud & scared mothers would gladly tell me such info.

[AmethystSquirrel]

I am almost 30 years old, been married for 8 years and I constantly :eyeroll: at my mother. I stopped telling her anything because she is a panic attack woman who refuses to see me out of my pigtails and stroller.

[LadyAndreca]

I am almost 30 years old, been married for 8 years and I constantly :eyeroll: at my mother. I stopped telling her anything because she is a panic attack woman who refuses to see me out of my pigtails and stroller.

My husband and I are the same age as you, and his younger brother just graduated college. It just amazes me that their mother still waits up for them to come home or convinces herself we're all dead if we don't call her when we reach our destination on any trip she's aware of that takes more than an hour. She even tries to get hubby to bring his laundry over for her to wash and iron, and he and I have been living together almost three years!

I have a sneaking suspicion that even if I popped out a couple of grandkids, she'd still think of him as her helpless little boy...