Thursday, January 10, 2008

This is something Bev would have done.....

Meanest mom’ sells car after finding liquor
Iowa woman shares teen son’s misdeed with the world via newspaper ad

DES MOINES, Iowa - Jane Hambleton has dubbed herself the "meanest mom on the planet."
After finding alcohol in her son's car, she decided to sell the car and share her 19-year-old's misdeed with everyone — by placing an ad in the local newspaper.
The ad reads: "OLDS 1999 Intrigue. Totally uncool parents who obviously don't love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for three weeks before snoopy mom who needs to get a life found booze under front seat. $3,700/offer. Call meanest mom on the planet."

Hambleton has heard from people besides interested buyers since recently placing the ad in The Des Moines Register.
The 48-year-old from Fort Dodge says she has fielded more than 70 telephone calls from emergency room technicians, nurses, school counselors and even a Georgia man who wanted to congratulate her.


"The ad cost a fortune, but you know what? I'm telling people what happened here," Hambleton says. "I'm not just gonna put the car for resale when there's nothing wrong with it, except the driver made a dumb decision.

"It's overwhelming the number of calls I've gotten from people saying 'Thank you, it's nice to see a responsible parent.' So far there are no calls from anyone saying, 'You're really strict. You're real overboard, lady.'"
The only critic is her son, who Hambleton says is "very, very unhappy" with the ad and claims the alcohol was left by a passenger.
Hambleton said she believes her son but has decided mercy isn't the best policy in this case. She says she set two rules when she bought the car at Thanksgiving: No booze, and always keep it locked.

The car has been sold, but Hambleton says she will continue the ad for another week — just for the feedback.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Grandma got run over by a reindeer.......

Actually she just fell on a curb and broker her hip but you would think she was run down by a Mack Truck. If I have to hear "I just had major surgery because I broke my hip and IT HURTS" I will scream. Yes I am aware that you fell and broke your hip and I am sure that it hurts, it probably hurts VERY BADLY. I do feel bad that it hurts so much and that you are having to go through all of these life changing thoughts but can't give up on life because you have a pin and some screws in your body. This is the part I don't understand. She wants to get better and "go home" but she doesn't want to do the rehab that it takes to get there. "Don't you know I had major surgery and it hurts".
Backstory -- She has already been in the rehab center of the hospital but they said she is not ready to go home so they sent her to another rehab center, that happens to be located inside a nursing home. I thought this is great - she will see how it is inside a nursing home and get her butt in gear and start doing what the rehab people tell you. Well, that is starting to work!! She hates the nursing home but she still hates rehab so it's going to be a battle to see which one wins.

This past weekend Wilson and I made the 5 hour trip to San Angelo to check on her and to also look at some of the assisted living places that my Mom and her brother are looking at for her if she is not able to come home. Well we get to the nursing home and her and my Mom are in the hallway and my Mom walks over to us to greet us and take the dog.....I think she missed the dog more than she missed us....but I digress. My grandmother is sitting in a wheelchair and pushing with her feet (like walking) and moving the wheelchair towards us. So at this point she CAN move the wheelchair by herself in a walking motion which I believe is probably good for her. So she hugs us and turns the wheelchair around so we can walk down to her room and I almost run into the back of her wheelchair as she yells out "Auh, Tonya push me!"