One night back in December my daughter asked if she could go to a friend’s house for a sleepover. As I usually do, I told her yes as long as I get the parents phone number and the address of where she will be. She gets me the info and later that evening (after she’s already gone) I decided to look up the address. It looked very familiar and I knew I had been there before.
I open Google maps and I start sifting through the history… Boom, I found it! I knew it looked familiar! I had taken her and two of her friends roller skating and this is where we picked one of them up. It was the address to a mobile home park and this particular friend of hers was a male and there was no way I would ever let my 14-year-old daughter spend the night at a boy’s house.
I never have an issue trusting my children and I rarely accuse them of lying, they just don’t do it… I decided to message her and she promised she wasn’t at his house and it was just a coincidence. When I picked the boy up to go skating, I didn’t have a mobile home number, but, I remember exactly where we picked him up from. This time I have a mobile home number and I told myself if it’s anywhere even close to where we picked him up she’s in trouble. So I sat around for a couple hours debating on what I should do and letting it turn in my gut.
I asked a couple people what they would do in this situation and we collectively agreed I should go drive by. Ok so now it’s like 11pm at night and I can’t take it anymore… I got to know… Is she actually lying to me??? We get over there and we’re driving around the mobile home park unable to see anything let alone a tiny little number on the corner of a mobile home. My sister-in-law got out to walk around so she could get closer to the numbers and tell which one was which.
We quickly established that the one the boy lived in is in a completely different area than the one she was at this time. We turned the corner on to a dead end Road with a little cul-de-sac at the end and all of a sudden we hear my daughter’s voice… Oh my God there’s my dad, let’s go inside. There she was, her and two of her girlfriends, no boys, out on the deck hanging out. She instantly sends me 2 text messages… The first one in all caps… DAD I’M NOT DOING THIS!!! And the second one… YOU NEED TO LEAVE NOW!!! I didn’t get out, we just simply turned around and went home… I did not say a single word to her… I now knew she was being 100% truthful. In fact I never should have questioned it. Next day when I pick her up, She said she was embarrassed and I felt so bad for making her think I did not trust her.
Luckily… After she got home, her and I had a good talk. I explained everything to her and why I felt like I had to drive by. She completely understood and really showed me just how responsible and grown up she really is. She said it totally makes sense and she would have thought the same thing as well. She just said it sucked because it made her feel like I didn’t trust her. I told her I understood and that I was sorry. I pointed out that I hardly ever accuse her or her brother of lying and it’s not like this happens a lot, but, I had to know… It’s a father’s job to protect his children… Especially his daughter! I told her… If I’ve ever done anything right in my life, it’s be a parent, and I’m not going to stop now!
I hope you enjoyed reading about this and hopefully you cracked a smile. I often do when I think back to this moment.
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