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Why they always call me when difficult child is in trouble? Futile worry over difficult child
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 553051" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>New day, no sleep and fresh outlook to last night. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/bloodshot.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bloodshot:" title="bloodshot :bloodshot:" data-shortname=":bloodshot:" />:coffee2:</p><p></p><p>I don't know if I should be frustrated or amused. Neither did difficult child's positional coach I talked with few minutes ago. Leave it to difficult child to make a total mess out of things without even doing anything actually wrong. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> </p><p></p><p>I mean, he really didn't. He went to cool off his feelings as he was told. This track he went to is meant for jogging at summer and cross country skiing at winter. There are lights but they are turned off for the night to save energy. If difficult child would had thought about it, he probably would had remembered. But maybe not what time they go off. And anyway, he didn't have a watch. And he was upset so he stopped middle of the way to sit and think. And when the lights went off, he first tried to follow the track, but because of the darkness and bad weather he got lost. He did know he was in the relatively small wooded area surrounded by roads and houses so just trying to get to some road and trying to find his way back from there was not a bad idea. And he didn't know the road he ended up so ending up going to wrong direction was just bad luck. And he hadn't actually seen anyone he could had asked directions. And when he was found he was already getting back to right direction and would had been home in hour or two. So he actually didn't really even screw up or do anything wrong.</p><p></p><p>But because he is difficult child it of course ended up with all his team mates, team staff and management and about everyone else coaches could think of waken up middle of the night, forced out of their beds and driving around trying to find him. He was unpopular before, you can bet this didn't make him more popular at all. But they had no other option than start searching. While what happened was the likeliest scenario, they had to make sure and quickly because there was an option that he would had hurt himself and been immobile. And weather being what it was hypothermia would had been a real risk even though he is big and strong. But being wet in the cold and windy weather and not being able to move gets you cold quickly so waiting the morning wouldn't had been an option. And they of course needed to check the roads before police would had alerted search and rescue and their search dogs and request border patrol with their helicopter with thermal camera to help. It isn't a big city and doesn't have too many police patrols in weekday night sift. And neither there is that many taxis driving around (taxis tend to help police around here with informing them if they see a person police has told them is missing. There are more taxis than police so they are likelier to spot someone who is wandering around in the streets.) And they had to search all the roads in quite a big area because no one of course knew which side of the woods difficult child would likely come out. So they absolutely needed to wake up everyone and get many people driving around. But that doesn't make too happy campers out of them. So no idea if they ever let difficult child live this down.</p><p></p><p>GM of the team did suggest that they would borrow a GPS tracking collar they use for hunting dogs and padlock it to difficult child's neck. Captain of team thinks they should simply keep difficult child on leash rest of the year. The coach I talked with reminisced how he once, when still young and stupid and a active player, ended up missing for few days over a drinking bender. In the tournament in Russia, in early nineties, when that country was even more in havoc than it is now. (Looks like this positional coach has his own difficult child past, may be a reason he seems to like mine.) So I probably should be grateful difficult child only got lost near home and while jogging and not in foreign, unsafe country while barhopping. Or something.</p><p></p><p>difficult child was allowed to skip morning practises and sleep in. I have to call him before the afternoon practises and suggest that he behaves in very contrite manner. Yeah, he didn't actually do anything wrong, but he did cause a lot of discomfort for everyone and he should be sorry. These are the things difficult child never seems to get and that do aggravate others. It really is not a right time for him to start to argue that this was not his fault. If he has enough sense to be apologetic and take what they do dish out on him, this will just be a funny anecdote they tell in few months. But it can also turn ugly if difficult child doesn't understand to show remorse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 553051, member: 14557"] New day, no sleep and fresh outlook to last night. :bloodshot::coffee2: I don't know if I should be frustrated or amused. Neither did difficult child's positional coach I talked with few minutes ago. Leave it to difficult child to make a total mess out of things without even doing anything actually wrong. :rolleye: I mean, he really didn't. He went to cool off his feelings as he was told. This track he went to is meant for jogging at summer and cross country skiing at winter. There are lights but they are turned off for the night to save energy. If difficult child would had thought about it, he probably would had remembered. But maybe not what time they go off. And anyway, he didn't have a watch. And he was upset so he stopped middle of the way to sit and think. And when the lights went off, he first tried to follow the track, but because of the darkness and bad weather he got lost. He did know he was in the relatively small wooded area surrounded by roads and houses so just trying to get to some road and trying to find his way back from there was not a bad idea. And he didn't know the road he ended up so ending up going to wrong direction was just bad luck. And he hadn't actually seen anyone he could had asked directions. And when he was found he was already getting back to right direction and would had been home in hour or two. So he actually didn't really even screw up or do anything wrong. But because he is difficult child it of course ended up with all his team mates, team staff and management and about everyone else coaches could think of waken up middle of the night, forced out of their beds and driving around trying to find him. He was unpopular before, you can bet this didn't make him more popular at all. But they had no other option than start searching. While what happened was the likeliest scenario, they had to make sure and quickly because there was an option that he would had hurt himself and been immobile. And weather being what it was hypothermia would had been a real risk even though he is big and strong. But being wet in the cold and windy weather and not being able to move gets you cold quickly so waiting the morning wouldn't had been an option. And they of course needed to check the roads before police would had alerted search and rescue and their search dogs and request border patrol with their helicopter with thermal camera to help. It isn't a big city and doesn't have too many police patrols in weekday night sift. And neither there is that many taxis driving around (taxis tend to help police around here with informing them if they see a person police has told them is missing. There are more taxis than police so they are likelier to spot someone who is wandering around in the streets.) And they had to search all the roads in quite a big area because no one of course knew which side of the woods difficult child would likely come out. So they absolutely needed to wake up everyone and get many people driving around. But that doesn't make too happy campers out of them. So no idea if they ever let difficult child live this down. GM of the team did suggest that they would borrow a GPS tracking collar they use for hunting dogs and padlock it to difficult child's neck. Captain of team thinks they should simply keep difficult child on leash rest of the year. The coach I talked with reminisced how he once, when still young and stupid and a active player, ended up missing for few days over a drinking bender. In the tournament in Russia, in early nineties, when that country was even more in havoc than it is now. (Looks like this positional coach has his own difficult child past, may be a reason he seems to like mine.) So I probably should be grateful difficult child only got lost near home and while jogging and not in foreign, unsafe country while barhopping. Or something. difficult child was allowed to skip morning practises and sleep in. I have to call him before the afternoon practises and suggest that he behaves in very contrite manner. Yeah, he didn't actually do anything wrong, but he did cause a lot of discomfort for everyone and he should be sorry. These are the things difficult child never seems to get and that do aggravate others. It really is not a right time for him to start to argue that this was not his fault. If he has enough sense to be apologetic and take what they do dish out on him, this will just be a funny anecdote they tell in few months. But it can also turn ugly if difficult child doesn't understand to show remorse. [/QUOTE]
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