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In reply to the discussion: Georgia school to bring back paddling [View all]hunter
(38,311 posts)When my youngest was in high school I got that dreaded phone call from the police in the middle of the night...
It was a courtesy call they said, I could pick up my son and my car, before the car was impounded and my kid arrested.
Wait, what? Last I knew my kid had done his homework, was sleeping in his bed, and the car was in the driveway.
I got there and my kid was sitting on the curb with the cops, handcuffed, cracking jokes that made the cops laugh, and there were a couple of other parents wakened in the middle of the night glowering at me like it was all my fault as they picked up their own kids.
All were sober, only sin curfew violation and mouthing off to cops, so parental win! It could have been much worse.
I told my mom, seeking sympathy the next day, and she cackled.
Can't blame her. I was her most troubled child who quit high school, got kicked out of college twice, who would vanish from the face of the earth for weeks and months incognito, in the time before cell phones.