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my 18 year old son is off to tenerife with a load of his mates on friday, his first time abroad on his own ..... and as if that's not worrying enough ........ he said, we'll be fine we have bail insurance in other words if they get arrested they get out on bail ..... great just what i needed to hear, i'm not sure if i should be relieved to hear that they have it .... or worried silly that they think they might need it

Lynda xx

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good grief - how times have changes!! when I was, erm, young - ya Ma would be saying 'have you got medical insurance sorted' ...ah well, sounds like a forward thinking lad you have there Lynda

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oh yeah, that's what i asked lol ....... he said yeah, and if i'm dead they fly me home.

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I like your boy - lots

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yeah funnily enough i do too

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sometimes i do talk complete and utter rubbish ...... just ignore me if i do ........i'll go away eventually

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I'm sure he'll be fine - it's only when you haven't got these things in place that things go wrong.

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moon trial underway with onions, lettuce, tomatoes and calabrese.

yeah i guess, they have pubs a beach and mcdonalds ..... what could go wrong lol

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sometimes i do talk complete and utter rubbish ...... just ignore me if i do ........i'll go away eventually

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you could be a Granma next year

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Yeah, give him some condoms before he goes - you can't do much more surely???

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Andrea :wavehello

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moon trial underway with onions, lettuce, tomatoes and calabrese.

You don't look old enough to be a mummy to an 18 year old!!! Lucky thing! Must be all that fresh fruit and veg.

That's just what I was thinking!!!!

Never mind - she'll be grey with worry by the time he gets back!!!!!!

When I was 18 I buzzed off to the far East and spent two years working and then a couple of months travelling. Nearly drowned with all my mates in a rip current on Bali, the bus I was on Malaya was held up by armed gunmen, nearly caught smuggling gems out of Burma in my toothpaste tube (they were the size of pin heads, there was absolutely no point). Luckily we didn't have long enough in Thailand to get press cards forged so we could get a visa to go into Laos to see the war (that was our plan, I kid you not)

Jesus! I hope my kids are more sensible than I was. But I survived.

Sadly I did lose a friend, in my late teens, who looked the "wrong" way crossing the road in Belgium though. Tragic.

My Mum sent me condoms; and I second that advice. (She was pretty open-minded given that was over 30 years ago)

...so... you feeling better now Lynda?

Get him a girlfriend to go with him ASAP- then at least you'll know where he is and what he'll be doing most of the time!


....he'll be fine

...on the other hand.....you should take yourself to bed with a huge block of chocolate and wait for him to come home!

He's doing what the politicians do - talking up all the bad things so that when something does happen you say 'oh well, that wasn't as bad as I was expecting'!

He sounds great - really switched on. I know it's hard but don't worry too much about him! I hope he has a great time

he already knows if he makes me a granny before i'm 60 his testicles are being fed to the dog

he has been with his g/f for 15 months, i said take condoms, he said theres no way he's going to be unfaithful, i stuck some in his bag and said .... just in case your mates need them

thanks lol ..... i'm 42 in august ..... and i definitely feel every year of it at the moment.

why do you think i dye my hair black?

thanks for that...... i shan't worry at all now .... actually i went to live in Greece when i was 18 lol ..... at least he's only going for 2 weeks ..... i did suggest looking for a summer job out there, and to come back to go to uni, but he said his g/f would kill him

god yes totally relieved

his g/f won't go cos he's going with 8 lads, and 8 more are going 4 days after, and if he wants to do that he's got a bed upstairs ....... actually it was very funny the other night, i could hear the bed springs, so i turned the telly up, then later ...... went upstairs, and said, remind me to tighten your bed up tomorrow ....... the looks on their faces ......... priceless ...... i have just been to B&M and stocked up on choccy

yeah, but i wasn't expecting ...... till he told me about the bail insurance lol i know he'll be fine, it's just he's my only baby

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sometimes i do talk complete and utter rubbish ...... just ignore me if i do ........i'll go away eventually

http://teachy.myminicity.com/ind

Woohoo, party round Lyndas, when the mice are away the cats can play!!

i'll get him to put the gazebo up then before he goes we can have a BBQ

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sometimes i do talk complete and utter rubbish ...... just ignore me if i do ........i'll go away eventually

http://teachy.myminicity.com/ind

when i was 18, i went to spain with a supposed friend who left me on the first night and i ended up extremely drunk getting into a cop car to go back to the hotel - called , wait for it ................"El Cid" ha ha !!! i got drunk everynight and partied like never before (no not what you lot are thinking)!!

I think i would have a panic attack when my DD gets to 18 and wants to go abroad, how times change!!

Hope he has fun and so do you!!

SS

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oh i sooo with ya there lynda. my eldest son turns 18 in 10 days, and is off on his first holiday with his mates at the end of august and if that's not bad enough, his first ever passport arrived this morning, i had to sign for it. so now it's on my mind from now till he comes back


on the plus side though, my eldest daughter announced to me by text this morning that she's expecting my SECOND grandchild... i'm only 37!!

I started a reply to this earlier and decided to zap it. My son went to Tenerife 4 weeks ago with 3 mates. They were mugged (well they got so pissed on their first night they fell asleep on their way back to their hotel).

Their pockets were slit and all their mobiles, money and credit cards were stolen along with their trainers. My son ended up with the only money between them and that was because he had fallen asleep on his back pocket. Even though insured, I had to bail them out in the meantime . I haven't had a penny piece back from any of them .

I've been taken for a mug AGAIN. On top of that, I've been without water for 4 days with said son promising to fit a new ballcock etc to my header tank. I've already been in the 4ft crawl space in the attic, and all those who've met me will know I'm not designed for such antics. I will do it if I have to, but the thought of trying to fit a new ballcock and arm in such a small space at my age is not on.

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