I thought she’d settled down and was going to attend the JC, live at home so she could go to school full time and work part time. I was wrong or she changed her mind yet again…
Yesterday she told me she thought she’d found a room to rent in a condo. The condo was close enough to her school that she could ride her bike. She said it was a great bargain, only $450 a month with utilities included. She asked me if I thought she should call the woman and ask some questions. I told her to go for it, at the time I was thinking I had just called her bluff.
So she called “Gerry” about the condo. This is funny. The woman told my daughter about the room and then told her that she wouldn’t be allowed any overnight guests ever and that if she wanted to have someone over for dinner she would have to give Gerry a two week notice. The woman told my daughter that she’d be needing three references and here’s the funny part she said she didn’t want to have to talk to my daughter if she did take the room. There would be NO chit chat! LOL Then she wrapped up the conversation with, “If you are a social person then this probably isn’t the room for you.”
How crazy is that? Gerry’s rules are far more stict than mine. My daughter is passing on that room but is still looking for another. Less than 30 minutes later she found another “bargain” a 2 bedroom appartment that was renting for ONLY $1,095 a month! That doesn’t sound very affordable for someone that’s already given their two week notice at work.
{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }
Traci 07.02.08 at 5:03 am
Too bad you live somewhere else….our daughters could share an apartment and pay with their unreality checks…ba haaaaaa. Have a great day!!!
CanadianSaver 07.02.08 at 5:19 am
The 2 weeks’ notice about a dinner guest was weird too! Glad she passed up on that one…
Maybe if she has a hard time finding a room and encounters other weird landlords like Gerry, she’ll figure that the best place is at home!
consolidate debts 07.02.08 at 7:16 am
she is too strict.
messy 07.02.08 at 8:44 am
Traci - That’s you are so funny!
CanadianSaver - I’m hoping she does end up talking to a bunch of strange people about renting a rooms, hopefully she’ll see that it is best at home. Why she’d want to pay for rent and food when she can get it for free? I just don’t get it.
Traci 07.04.08 at 5:12 am
Here is the latest on my saga…she went to a friend’s house and I had a sneaky suspicion that she was going to either have guys over or they were going somewhere….so, I made her leave specific directions to the friend’s house and said that we would drop by and they’d better be there. Well, a couple of hours later, I get a call….”Hey Mom (mind you she was mad when she left…because she is 18, blah blah)….Hey MOM! Whatcha’ doing?……Nothing. Oh hey, do you happen to know what time you are coming by?…..um, well, NO…I don’t…..why?…..well, I wanted to tell friend’s mom when you were coming. Well, NO, honey, the whole idea was that it would be a SURPRISE!…” sheesh……too funny. I did get a call from “mom” telling me that they were going w/ HER to another town…..I’m still suspicious of that call…but oh well, she is EIGHTEEN….rofl. Have a great 4th!!!
messy 07.05.08 at 10:03 am
Traci - OMG I totally know what you are talking about! I love those “Whatcha doing?” calls, they always send up a red flag for me.
I wonder if all mom’s of 17-18 year old girls go through this?
My daughter went over the mountain, to the town where she’s going to attend school and hopes to move too. Her purpose was to look for a job (remember she quit her grocery store job), I asked her how many jobs she applied for and she said, “None, I got too scared.”
Foxie 07.07.08 at 8:06 am
“I wonder if all mom’s of 17-18 year old girls go through this?”
Mine didn’t. But there was the whole incident of me starting to talk to my husband, through myspace, then him calling and all of a sudden I was telling her I’d be leaving for a month to go and meet him. About a week after I turned eighteen.
Of course, being a Mom, she knew a few days after I started talking to him that I was going to marry him… I figured it out a week or so later.
Now, roughly two years later, I’m out of the house and on my own.
I do have that husband of mine, but he’s currently out of the country, so…
Anyhow, I’m a really weird one, so I never gave my parents any trouble… And my Mom was always supportive, especially when I pulled out of college for a year to get my relationship on track. Of course, a lot of people figured I’d never go back, but I did.
Your daughter’s really got it for herself if she has to learn the hard way that home is great as long as you’re welcome.
It sucks having to pay all the bills and do all the shopping and cleaning and upkeep yourself…