What a stressful day! It’s actually been a stressful couple of weeks. My baby, ok, she’s not actually a baby, is at college. To be honest, I used to laugh inside myself when people I knew said that they were crying as they dropped their child off. I didn’t laugh at them, I just couldn’t understand why they would be so upset.
Now I understand. On my way upstate New York with my daughter sleeping in the back seat, I watched the faces of people passing our car. It seemed that everyone had the same expression – utter and complete sadness. Why the sadness? Well, it’s actually a good thing that our children have made it this far and that they are going to a good college. But it’s hard because it seems like yesterday that they were babies. It seems like yesterday when I was going from the shower to walking on the beach to try to calm my daughter because she was so collicky. And now, 17 years later, she’s off to college to be her own person.
As we were moving her into her dorm, an older security guard told my husband that Rob Reiner had a child going to the school. My husband, an avid fan of Reiner and his recent movies, was eager to meet him.
They bumped into each other on the UPS pick up line… then again when the “goon” squad moved in all the stuff from the cars and yet again when the UPS pick up line was forming after the parents were so angry that their kids stuff didn’t get to the school on time.
Rob Reiner and my husband talked and talked and talked until the truck dropped off all the stuff and my husband found the mini refrigerator and said goodbye. He never asked Rob Reiner for his name nor anything about him. Rob Reiner didn’t ask for my husband’s name.
The one thing that stuck, Rob Reiner said that his son is going here because this is the best school in the country.
My husband was pleased to hear that. As he and my son were parting, my son shouted to Rob Reiner, “Goodbye Mr. Reiner!” Rob smiled and my son and waved.
