Last night as Chris and I turned in, I checked our family driver app, an app for anxiety-inducement and relief in equal measure, just to make sure our youngest son had driven back to campus safely and no one had kidnapped him along the way. That's when I saw that he had gone on an extra trip after arriving at his dorm.
The map showed that he traveled to a building in the middle of a field about 10 minutes from campus. Google Maps told me this building was a crematorium. Once more, for emphasis, a CREMATORIUM. Like, for people. No big deal, right? Our kid just randomly driving to a crematorium in the middle of nowhere at night.
After he arrived there the map showed him taking 45 minutes to s..l..o..w...l...y drive through a subdivision nearby, also for no reason, and then driving back to the crematorium. Where people are burned, just in case you wondered.
I didn't care that it was late, my 18 year-old had either lost his mind or was kidnapped by cartel members and taken to a crematorium as a threat before being forced by said cartel to go door to door selling drugs in a nearby subdivision. That is clearly what was happening.
Not content with freaking-out myself, I proceeded to freak-out my half-asleep husband, too.
"TEXT HIM NOW," Chris said urgently.
Our son was displeased with our timing. We didn't care. We were saving him from our (mine) own imaginations.
Turns out, we were “saving” him from picking up Labor Day flags with his Eagle Scout roommate.
Our son will never let us live this down, deservedly so.
*I'll add I usually only check the app on him when he drives long distances (especially at night). I mean, I know his parents are retired goth kids, but nightly crematorium visits in September are early in the season for us 😂. (It's a biz where they dropped off collected flags.)
LOL!! That would freak me out also…. Just being good parents Ms. Dana and Mr. Chris. I’m sure your son didn’t think so, but he knows you care. See you on YTube tomorrow Mrs Loesch. 😁
I gave up doing that when my Daughter turned 30.