'My 264 month old child is missing!': Overbearing mom yells at university librarian to go search for her daughter during finals week, gets hung up on

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Oct 6, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

You would think in the 21st century, overbearing moms would take a chill pill with all the technology that informs them on the status of their kids these days—but apparently not! Apparently, now that they can trace phones and even heartbeats, overbearing parents have even more power to freak out about little things. 

Take, for instance, this grown woman in college, a 22-year-old, who was studying in the university library during finals week. If you went to college, then you know how grueling finals week is. Non-stop hours of studying and working. Taking a break to call your mom just isn't a viable option, getting any sleep hardly is! So, mothers should know better than to freak out if their college kid is not answering their phone. Unfortunately, this overbearing mom did not get that memo and freaked out so hard that she went Karen on the librarian. Read what went down below! 

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    "I hope that Mom realized how ridiculous it was to expect a 22- year-old college student to be at her beck and call during finals week.' "
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    My 264 Month Old Child Is Missing!!! So, not a hotel story, but a library one. However, I'm still working at the front desk, so I hope it counts. I worked at the front desk for a 24 hour college library. This is a huge building--10 floors. According to my Google health app, it's about two miles to patrol every floor, not counting the stairs. We had a front desk separate from the check out desk, and the phone number on our website connected to the phone at this desk.
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    So one night, during finals season, we get a call from a woman asking if we knew where her daughter was. We did not. She then explained that she had been tracking her daughter's phone and it hasn't moved for the past six hours, and she was worried about her. Well, if your daughter is a student, she's probably studying. We have a cafe in the building as well, so she wouldn't even have to leave the building to get food. I explained this to her. "Your daughter's phone hasn't moved likely because th
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    "Yes, but she was supposed to text me back and she hasn't! You need to find her, she could be kidnapped! Call her on the PA system!" I explained that we do not have a PA system like that (our PA can only do pre recorded messages). "Well then, just go look for her!" This is a university library during finals week. I'm not walking through 10 floors and asking every study group if they know a [daughter's name] and telling her to call her mom. I am barely paid enough to do my regular patrols, I am n
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    I told her if she was really worried, call the police. "I tried that but they said she's an adult!" "She's an adult? Ma'am, how old is your daughter?" "She's 22!" I barely, barely managed to keep myself from saying something . Instead, I managed to get out something like "well, she's in a library during finals week, you don't have to worry. It's normal for students to spend this long here, she'll probably call you back soon" and got her off the phone.
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    Unfortunately, this woman called back an hour later, when I was replaced by one of our students workers on the desk. This student worker was very nice, bless her, but ended up looking up the 22 year old's information in the student directory to send her an email telling her to come to the front desk and call her mom back. Which she did. The poor girl looked humiliated. Anyway. I hope that the 22 year old realizes how much her mom crossed a line and was able to set boundaries with her. But also l
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    emmjaybeeyoukay Wait till mom does the same thing. midway through a final exam. "you have to go get my daughter to call me now, she's been sitting still in a large room with 100 other people for 3 hours! They could be doing anything!"
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    Animallover4321 These kinds of parents never learn. My mom used to call my work when I ignored her calls or the weather was bad and she still would if she was able. a few years ago (I was 30) she managed to convince the front desk agent at the hotel where I was staying to connect her to my room. because I apparently missed her 6am call to see how I was doing (fun fact she didn't know the room number I am still her). the FDA actually connected
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    SabertoothLotus fun story, my grandmother did this to my father back in the early 80s, soo. after he'd gotten married. And moved to East Africa as part of his work for the State Department. My grandmother was a worrier. And extremely persistent. My father has a framed telegram from Henry Kissinger, telling him to call his mother.
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    plangelier I worked for the customer service call center for a bank for 10 years. The amount of senior parents in thier 60s and 70s calling to manage thier never grown up 40 something was amazing.
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    BarrenAssBomburst MIL lost her privileges to know we were up to when when the front desk of the hotel where we were staying said the sheriff had come looking for us when we came back from our day's adventuring (found us from the license. plate on our truck in the parking lot). Turned out three counties worth were looking for us because the area we were staying was too remote for cell coverage, and MIL couldn't
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    immediately reach us. She knew the mountain range where we had gone but not the exact place. She was worried we were dead/lost on the trail, and we had to tell her we'd rather be dead on the trail than have a three- county search for us. We were in our mid 40s at the time.
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    JustanOld... Helicopter parents are a pain in the SS. When I used to work in the admissions office at a university, we had this one. helicopter parent blowing up our phones, ordering us to order his ADULT daughter to move back onto campus from the apartment she was living in!! We kept telling him we were NOT doing THAT!!!!!! SMH!!!
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    implodemode That is one kid who will definitely "forget" her phone when she goes out. Lord. poor kid. Some parents don't prepare their kids for the real world then worry that they aren't prepared for the rea world. And the thing is all that that was - forbidden are the very things the kids are going to jump into head first and with all the gusto they can manage.
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