College Boys and A New, Unique Approach To Meeting Girls
by Sherra on March 28, 2008
in Finding the Funny, Friends, Life Lessons
As promised, I will now share how we were greeted upon arriving at our beach villa last week.
Since we are both moms with teenagers and we each have a son, we are always watching how the high school and college students behave in public.
We do find it fascinating to see how they act once they are “free” of the watchful eye of their mothers and fathers. We can’t help but wonder if our kids will be these kids we’re watching in a few years.
Just a refresher first about my girlfriend retreat last week.
Ann flew in to Atlanta from Illinois and we drove to Destin, Florida which is my very favorite beach. As much as time flies in the car as we talk non-stop, we were both tired and it was past midnight when we arrived at our beach villa.
We pulled up and turned the car off. Our unit was dark but the unit next door had the outside light on and two young men were standing at the door talking to young girls inside.
As we gathered our purses and looked for the envelope with the keys, we looked up to see one of the young men “drop his drawers” and was standing in his boxers. We both laughed and found the villa keys. Oh, the wild abandonment of youth.
We were about to get out of the car when the young man dropped his boxers and proceeded to moon the girls inside their villa.
What College Boy #1 didn’t realize was that he was facing our car under the bright porch light which means we were getting a full view of his frontside.
The girls shut their door at this point which we thought was a good decision on the girls’ part. College Boys sauntered into the parking lot near our car. As we got out to get our luggage, they very politely approached our car and College Boy #1 said “Ladies, as a fellow VW bug owner, can we help you with your luggage?”
Ann replied in a terse voice, “No thanks, we’ve got it.” She proceeded to hoist her giant suitcase out of the trunk and started wheeling it towards our villa.
Dang, I was tired and the car was loaded and I definitely wanted some help. Ann is usually more sociable than that.
I countered with, “YES, we’d love help with our luggage but only if you can keep your pants on.”
College Boy #1 a.k.a. The Flasher feigned embarrassment and said “Oh my gosh, did you guys see that? Oh man, are you serious?”
He might have had a few drinks – just my observation as a non-drinker.
I really wish I could have a little sound bite here that you could click to hear Ann’s voice when she whipped around and said,
“HELLO, we saw your WIE#%R.”
It really went downhill from there. College Boys didn’t realize they were in the presence of two moms who could more than hold their own with the back and forth that transpired. It’s hard to shock a mom of four and a middle-school teacher.
In their mom’s defense–and I don’t even know their moms–they apologized profusely, carried in all our bags, cooler, cookies that PhilBillPaul baked for us (Yes, you read that right – I’m telling you he’s nice like that) and apologized some more.
We think they would have sat down and visited with us but we gave them some cookies and sent them on their way. But not before Ann grabbed her camera and took pictures.
Unfortunately, I didn’t think quick enough to ask them to sign a photo release. Maybe because I really didn’t think about posting this story at the time. Even though I’m not comfortable posting their pictures, I will tell you their first names; Jake (flasher) and Chad (sidekick).
I didn’t let them leave without asking a couple of important questions as a service to all the moms out there. This is valuable information whether you have a son and you want to know if he’s doing this and of course, if you have a daughter, you can warn her about the likes of Jake and Chad.
Q: Did you know those girls?
A: Nah, we just met them on the beach today.
Q: Is this a new strategy in the dating game?
A: Huh?
Q: I mean you just met them earlier today and you just show them your WIE#%R and you get a date?
A: Not really but I was just showing them my great butt – you all weren’t suppose to see my WIE#%R.
Q: So do you think you’re going to score with them tomorrow?
A: Chad (who did not show his private parts) said “No, I don’t have any game so I never score.”
Final comment I couldn’t resist,
“Gosh Ann, back in our college days, we had to at least dance a few songs first, didn’t we?”
JUST KIDDING, MR. & MRS. JONES (Ann’s parents – in case they’re reading this)!!
Here are pictures of the beautiful beach and the boys from afar with their group of 10 buddies who all came to Destin from LSU.
Chad came over and talked to us the next day. It was no surprise that Jake was busy with a fascinating drinking game on the beach involving drinking alcohol from a plastic baseball bat and spinning around till they fell down.
Our observation was that Jake was really the one with no game and back in the day, we both would have danced with Chad. 
On a final note, Ann and I both have WIE#%R dogs and for some reason, this made us laugh the whole time we were at the beach. Because frankly (oops, no pun intended) it takes very little to amuse us and we still think WIE#%R is a funny word. We refuse to grow up to be old, grouchy women. We prefer to be old, funny women who never stop laughing.
If you could have heard Ann squeal at Jake that she saw his, you would have laughed like I did. It was a classic one-liner that we’ll probably still be repeating it when we’re both 82 and sitting at the beach on our annual girlfriend retreat.
You’re laughing now, aren’t you? Oh come on, laugh – it’s good for you.
Life Lesson (LL): Mamas, you gotta let ‘em go and hope they keep their pants on in public. But when you let them go, remind them that even when you’re not there, somebody else’s mom is watching!
Share a Life Lesson (SALL): Any good stories you can share about observing our next generation of leaders in social settings?
Well, it worked for me! I am ROTFLMAO!!! WHY couldn’t I have been with you? I love stuff like this!
Your trip sounds like so much fun and some great memories.
I shared your little momento from the BBB myself a couple of weeks ago so hopefully it’s continuing to inspire folks.
I always love people watching when sitting on the beach and whether they realize it or not college kids provide some of the very best entertainment out there with their silly antics. We have gotten a little worried a couple of times when it looked like there might be a fight. Thought we might, as mothers, have to intervene, you know.
Love interacting with them also. They never can resist a large group of women no matter what the age of the guys and/or the women.
On another note, they didn’t call either one of you a MILF, did they? You know a mutual friend of ours gets that from some of these guys. Wonder if they’ve done it in front of her college age daughter? I think I need to ask.
In the meantime, this is definitely a good story to tell your children right before they leave on their first spring break with no parents.
OMG! This is quite possibly the funniest story I have read in a long time – I am going to see Frank Caliendo tonight but am not sure he will hold a candle to you, Sherra! Thank you for making my Friday! I have forwarded this to a couple of friends as well for a great Friday Giggle!
LOL LOL LOL!!!! You would think that I wouldn’t still be cracking up about this experience but I can’t help myself!! Loved reliving it through your post! Do you suppose that Chad is still working on making his hole deeper on the beach? ROFLMAO! XO
Melinda–They liked our cookies and were otherwise respectful
Nicki–Sometimes Ann & I wonder if we’re the only ones laughing (even though we don’t care if we are). Thanks for confirming it was funny.
Ann–For other readers, I’d like to clarify that Chad was digging a giant hole on the beach because it was going to rain the next day and he said it was going to be a great hot tub. I’m still laughing too, my WIE#%R friend…
All I have to say is…WOW! You sure have fun on your trips. I never see wie#%rs on my trips! I would love to have been with you guys. There is nothing like a good laugh with your girlfriends that you can still chuckle over years later. I know this was one of those moments. My only questions is…where was your camera when you needed it?
Tammy–Sometimes memories should only be in your mind and not on film…I think this was one of those times. We do have a lovely picture of Chad in his hole, um, I mean hot tub so we’ll always remember.
TOO FUNNY!!! I sent a link to all my girlfriends AND my daughter who is a senior in high school. She’ll be at the beach with me on spring break, but after graduation, she’s on her own! I wanted to make sure to warn her what to look out for!
Gayle–Sometimes the best entertainment is free…not that I want my daughters to be entertained they way we were!
Sherra, Oh my gosh, I have found this to be really funny stuff. Who knew you were this funny? You always seemed to be mad at the world as a sister. (hahaha-I was also pissed for MANY, MANY YEARS, in the same house). Very funny stuff. It is amazing what our kids do around other people when they think we don’t notice. Spaz (that’s what I call Alex, who now has to be called Ali, and we are on the third way of spelling it), thinks she is SO COOL, most of the time it cracks me up. She has a wicked sense of humor and gets going right along like the rest of the women in our family, it’s just weird to see the transformation from “cute little Alex” to “demon with a period” (MAJOR PMS ACTION.) Just shoot me for about a week every month because I never know if Spaz is waking up in the morning, who I adore, and she’s funny and pleasant to be around, or “demon with a period” girl , who I could kill, or just really rather not be around, ya know? Well, anyway, I wanted you to know I am now in the computer world, (it only took about 10 years to get me here!!!!) Great website and I hope to hear from you soon!!!
Julia–
Glad you’re reading and enjoying. As we attempt to raise our daughters, you must have some new empathy (or should that be sympathy?) for mom. Tough gig and we didn’t make it very easy on her!
I’ve been funny for years – you were the one who was mad and I guess too mad to notice I was funny, dear sister
I laughed at Ali’s name changes – think she inherited that from her mom? You know, my sister Julie who now goes by Julia?? Hey…just call me Ra-Ra because it fits my cheerleader personality. Oh wait, you were the cheerleader, not me.
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If I get the RSS subscription will I receive all the comments too or am I just going to have to depend on you to alert me to them? Seriously some of the comments are as good as the posts (as your astute m-i-l already noticed!) Guess I better just sit my butt down and go back thru and look!
Glad to see your blog is getting so many hits. Have you got any work related speaking jobs from it yet?
We’ve just returned from a spring break with the kids and some other families down in Gulf Shores. We had a few laughable moments ourselves but not quite on a par with your story thank goodness. One of the dad’s did moon me one afternoon after he had had a few too many beers. his wife was appalled and begged him to pull his pants up before any of the children witnessed his behavior. Felt kinda like a multiples retreat – there were 14 children with us.
And these guys dug a hole as well. Said they were digging it for the children but don’t you know they ended up using it one windy afternoon as a man cave. That might have been the afternoon that he mooned me. Thank goodness he didn’t turn around!
Sounds like we need to do lunch soon. I’ve never called my family dysfunctional but maybe I need to think about it some more.
And looka there, there’s a neat little box down there I can check to get all the followup comments as well!
What an awesome story!