Let me tell you a little story about a young teenage girl living in her Suburban town. Molly is 18 years old with the world at her feet. She is getting ready to head off to college in the fall of 2010. She is excited but admits to being a little jealous of her friends that are heading to colleges out of State. Molly was not allowed to look at any colleges out of her home State. In addition, her parents would not allow her to look at colleges farther than 2 hours away. I am thinking that is keeping the strings a little tight but hey, they are paying for college they get to make the rules! Plus, maybe they know their daughter. Just maybe Molly talks a good game to all her friends but they might know she isn’t quite ready to fly, maybe after college she will be ready and her parents know this little tidbit. Why spend a lot of money sending her far away only to have bring her back???
Molly spent the night at our house on Thursday evening because we had a quick little snowstorm and the girls did not want to drive home. Honestly, it was small and they could have driven but it was the first night of spring break and I could have cared less if they spent the night. Friday morning it was a beautiful sunny morining! You just knew the sun was going to melt that nasty snowstorm away!!! Anyways, I was doing my Friday chores and it was before 10:00am I thought I heard Molly’s car running, “Wow, that is early for the girls to be up?” So, I head over to the window to check it out and low and behold I see this older gentleman cleaning off Molly’s car. Now, I think, that is not a neighbor being nice?? I do not recognize him and I look and I see a minivan parked in front of her car. Oh, my gosh, no way! That is Molly’s dad. He drove over and cleaned off her car and started it and made sure it was all good to go for her when she was ready to leave!!!
Molly got up about an hour later. She jumped in her car ,while her other friend was cleaning off her car, Molly waved her little hand out her window and zipped out of our neighborhood.
Yep, I am thinking it is a really good thing Molly is only going 2 hours away from home. I was actually thinking maybe she should have just went to the College right here in our city.
I was also thinking that Dad gets Father of the year because man we suck as parents, my husband and I said, there is no way we would have went over and cleaned off Maddie’s car for her at a friend’s house (LOL)
Oh, and later we asked Maddie if her father was driving by or was on his way to work. Maddie said, “No, he is retired and he just came over to clean off the car. You know a lot of my friends parent’s are older than you guys, like old.” Her words, not ours! We didn’t ask her what they consider old, not sure I wanted to hear the answer! (LOL)
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haha! Wow, college is going to kick her ass though, unless dad is going to drive the two hours to rescue her every time something happens…I hope she appreciates him and all the things he obviously does for her!
I have to admit, she does appreciate her parent’s, she is a good kid but a little spoiled (LOL)
That was super sweet of Molly’s dad.
Sweet dad but I think they all are going to have some serious adjustments to go through in the fall (LOL)
Wowsers! I’m thinking two things: sweet of the dad and she is not going to settle for just any man as a husband, he will treat her like a princess (could be good or bad depending on how much she abuses that knowledge).
My other thought is yowch! Are they going to do her college homework as well? Will they come up and make her dinner every night?
I was required to go to college in my state or the bordering states OR hawaii…why hawaii? Well, my brother was there. The reason wasn’t so much about being able to come home for keeps, but it was so that there was family around when I needed/wanted them.
Anyway, in the end I chose the perfect college for me (2 hours away) but I rarely came home…until my goddaughter was born, then you couldn’t keep me away! But then again, my dad would NOT have started my car for me or cleaned off the snow either…yikes!
She is a great kid and I just think a little spoiled and will have some adjustments. I certainly am not one to judge, I wouldn’t even move into the DORMS my freshmen year, I commuted. No way would I leave home BUT that was my choice. We were allowed to go anywhere we wanted. My brother went 2 hours away, my sister did too and she came home and never went back to a college. Anyways, I thought it was sweet and a little over the top, a little mixed of feelings (LOL)
Oh man lol Yeah that girl should just go to the college and commute back and forth if she can’t clean off her own car! ouch! Nice of her dad to do that, but will he be driving 2 hrs away everytime it snows when she moves to the new college?
I think there will be some adjusting for ALL parties involved (LOL)
Question: Did Molly -ask- her dad to do that or did he just decide to do it?
I mean if she asked him to, then there’s no way she should be going off to college. If he cam about on his own accord to do it, well then he’s just a very -very- nice dad. Ha.
No one knows, the kids aren’t going to ask her, they just let her be, she is a great kid, bubbly, full of life and has a wonderful personality. She will be fine!!!
She really has such a wonderful dad
Mine wont clean my car either haha.
Very sweet, a little overprotective but better that than not care at all!!!
While I wouldn’t complain if someone did that for me, I think that is going a little too far… She’ll probably be home in a year…
It is sweet, he is a little overprotective and it should be very interesting!
I think it was very sweet of her father to come over to clean the snow off her car before driving home.
Mind you, that statement is coming from woman who once asked her father to come over in the middle of the night to kill a spider. And he did.
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her dancing is excruciating painful to watch. the only dancer worse is the 80 year old. Plus she sits there with this pouting glare on – yet people vote for her — I can’t understand it. Her instructor (Tony) walked out on her because of her ‘tude – but then came back – I have no idea why. I would have run for the hills!!
during the dance she was actually asking him the moves – you could see her lips moving- you may want to see for yourself when it airs again on Monday.
On the brighter side, I look at her dancing and don’t feel half bad about my own
I am so trying to figure out how to fix tha no reply thing, I played last night, so I am working on it. I am not all that familiar with WordPress and I am not sure if I do it through WordPress or Google, so I was looking into Google, ugh!
I am going to try hard to watch, I use to watch the show all the time and then just got sidetracked to other shows but I had heard that she needs to go!!
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