College Daughter Lacks Judgement!

[KarenC]

We took our daughter back to campus last weekend. She's sharing an apartment with 3 other young women. School doesn't start until after Labor Day so the rest of her roommates, whose homes are nearby, aren't living there full time yet. Last night she was in the apartment by herself.

Someone knocked on her door. She looked through her peephole and saw two young men on the other side of the door. Thinking they were new neighbors, SHE LET THEM IN!

It turned out they were door-to-door magazine salesmen. They wanted to sell her a subscription to Cosmo for $80. She said she wasn't interested. I guess they were very persistent and would not leave. Eventually she bought a $50 subscription to a interior design magazine just to get rid of them.

The papers she signed give her 3 days to cancel the order. She paid cash--it remains to be seen whether she'll actually get her money back. She seems most concerned about the money. I am most concerned that she let two men she didn't know into her apartment when she was home alone. I hope she learned something, and if she did, the $50 may have been a cheap life lesson.

I guess I'll never stop worrying about her...

 

[minniepumpernickel]

I hope that she gets the money back, and also learned a lesson! Atleast her roomates will be there soon too, so she'll have company.

 

[RadioNate]

That's pretty bad. Hopefully she understands how dangerous the situation could have been.

I doubt she'll see the $50 again as it sounds like a total scam considering Cosmo is only $18 a year.

Maybe she learned an important lesson.

 

[JessetheCowgirl]

So scary.

I can't imagine the day my kids go off to college! I will be a nervous wreck

 

[RitaZ.]

I think that young adults don't think that bad things can happen to them or maybe she didn't want to appear rude. Hopefully, she learned a lesson from this and will use better judgement next time.

Hang in there.

 

[JayBee]

Let 2 strange men into her apartment?????//////



(I'm glad I have boys)

 

[KarenC]

The thing about this that really puzzles me is that my daughter is quite paranoid about her pesonal security, for good reason. When she was 7, she and my 5-year-old son were with their nanny when they were held up at gunpoint in the car. My daughter became almost agoraphobic and hated to be in slow moving traffic in the city. We ended up moving to the suburbs and she still feels uneasy in the city.

And she is really responsible, for a college sophomore. This was not behavior I would expect from her. I thought my husband was going to find a way to get to her via the phone line, just so he could wring her neck, when he heard!

 

[tc]

I've always said, "Bigger kids means bigger problems." My girls are 23 and 21 and their lack of judgment never ceases to amaze me. I'm glad the worst thing is that she's lost $50, it could've been so much worse. Hopefully she'll think twice about letting someone into her apartment when she's alone. I'm glad she's okay.

 

[shortbun]

I'd be concerned too. Why is your daughter there by herself
so early? Did she tell these hoodlums she lives there alone
right now?

 

[KarenC]

Originally posted by shortbun
I'd be concerned too. Why is your daughter there by herself
so early? Did she tell these hoodlums she lives there alone
right now?

Most of her friends from home had started going back to school. It was getting pretty lonely here. Her lease started last week and she was eager to get back to her "school friends".

Her roommates are around most of the time, but if they have to work late they spend the night at home.

I sure hope she didn't tell these guys she lives alone--I would tend to doubt that she did--but then again I never would have thought she'd let them in in the first place.

I remember reading that between 18 and 20-something, the brain continues to grow and the part that's changing is the part that affects judgement.