It’s 10PM do you know where your PARENTS are?

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InventedTiME@reddit

Both my mom and dad have been passed on for more than a decade, grandma and grandpa died just a little before them. Cherish those twenty question sessions with your dad or having to guide them into the soccer fields parking lot my friend.

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Louloveslabs89@reddit

My dad (86) keeps turning it OFF and then wanting help when he is lost 😑

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kiddycat73@reddit

My mom passed suddenly in 2020 at 66, and my dad is only 71 and very healthy, so I don’t worry too much about him. He’s not even fully retired yet.

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Luvsseattle@reddit

This makes me giggle, and did I need it!

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Gizlby22@reddit

I track my dad but he doesn’t go anywhere and stays in his home most of the time and then all of a sudden he’s in Vegas without even giving me a heads up!!!

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MaximumJones@reddit

Still dead. (I think, I have not checked lately).

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Life_Transformed@reddit

It sounds bad, but my first thought was, I did my time

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No_Newspaper_9686@reddit

Honestly. Being a dual member of the DPC does have its advantages. I'm never guilted about gifts or calling enough either🤷🏻‍♀️

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GarthRanzz@reddit

I have to agree with this crowd. I’m glad I don’t have to deal with this (both parents long gone) nor deal with what would be their technical learning curve. I deal with enough of that at work.

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No_Newspaper_9686@reddit

The horror stories from my peers are plenty enough. Just the comments on this post sound exhausting! I promised my children I won't be doing it any of that craziness to them

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MoeKneeKah@reddit

Yeah, well, I never thought I’d be a “get off my lawn” kind of person, but here I am 😂

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BJoe1976@reddit

My Dad is Downstairs, in the kitchen, watching YouTube, luckily I don’t really have to worry about him much, despite being 83. Mom passed in early 2020, so we don’t have to worry about her at all.

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ChoiceD@reddit

Yes, I do. I have their ashes right next to each other.

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-forbiddenkitty-@reddit

I have phone tracking on my dad's phone and had to use it a few weeks ago.

He texted the family chat that he was lost while going to a family party in an area pretty far out of his normal stomping grounds. I, in my living room in North Carolina, was able to direct my sister to my father, both of whom are in Texas.

I have my mom on it too, but she's a lot younger than he is, so I'm not as worried about her yet (although she did lose her phone once and I was able to direct her to the store she left it at).

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MJ95B@reddit

Mom is in a nursing home and my dad died in '93.

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UnderstandingQuirky8@reddit

No tracking apps to use when my parents won’t get a smartphone and only share one dumbphone and half the time don’t have it charged or turned on or have voicemail set up properly or if they do know how to check voicemail. So defeats the point of them getting a cellphone phone “in case of an emergency “. My dad has taken it to the emergency room when either one them has needed care and won’t turn it on for fear he’ll run down the battery. So again, pointless. They don’t text, either. My dad mainly uses it for when, on occasion, I take him and pick him up from a medical appointment.

My mom can’t hear the home phone ring half the time and a large majority of the time she’s sleeping. They only got caller ID about 5 years ago and I don’t even think they knew they had it, it’s just they finally got new house phones that actually showed that info. So now you don’t have to leave a message on the answering machine for them to pick up your call.

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Duchessofpanon@reddit

My mother is a weather channel addict but pays little attention to the locations of weather catastrophes. Since I travel extensively for work, she is convinced I am in danger, regardless of the flooding being in Texas and I’m in, say, Minneapolis. She gets really annoyed when I argue that I’m nowhere near it, and she says, “If you say so…” in that snarky voice that implies I am the dumb one who doesn’t know where I am.

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Rare_Area7953@reddit

Fighting in heaven of course.

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Affectionate_Yam4368@reddit

My Mom is definitely asleep in her bed in Arizona. My Dad is in an urn in a hole in Wisconsin.

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positivepinetree@reddit

Yes, their ashes are in urns in a bookcase in my living room. My Dad passed in 2012, and my Mom followed in 2021. Both from the Silent Generation.

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Prior_Particular9417@reddit

I wonder how mine will feel about their ashes going on the shrine we have to our departed ferrets with their urns and little footprints?

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positivepinetree@reddit

My parents are nestled in between the ashes of three beloved cats. One of these days I need to find a field of wildflowers here in the Texas Hill Country to disperse all of these ashes. Maybe once we dry out from all the recent flooding.

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Prior_Particular9417@reddit

My dad is dead. I'm 1000% confident my mom is watching the hallmark channel.

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jnyquest@reddit

A mausoleum. Two of the best people I've ever known.

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BobsleddingToMyGrave@reddit

My Dad is at his home, and he hasn't fallen down. Thank you, ADT.

I track his ass everywhere.

My MIL is at her knitting group. Sheila is hosting tonight.

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TorrEEG@reddit

I love the detail about Sheila.

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81632371@reddit

Mom is in the cemetery. Dad is in his nursing care room. I know he is there, but he often calls me because he doesn't know where he is. I have to convince him that's where he is. Good times.

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damageddude@reddit

Heh, my parents are gone but I expect it won’t be much longer until my children are checking in on me (except it better be closer to 8pm).

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mltrout715@reddit

My mom, sure. She is dead so her ashes are sitting at my brothers house. My dad? Likely hanging with his GF at his house

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sex@reddit

I have my da on GPS tracker, I always know where he is.

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Happy_Confection90@reddit

Sure. They're both in the cabinet that protects their urns from my rambunctious cats.

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supershinythings@reddit

One’s in his grave. The other is sitting at home watching her second husband like a hawk because he has dementia and likes to wander around suddenly.

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Novel_Willingness721@reddit

Two things I do to know my parents are ok.

There’s an app called Life360. My entire family uses it. Originally it was my sister-in-law who wanted it for her kids. She stated no Life360 no phone. Then my parents and her mother joined in. About a year later I joined, and I live 2000 miles away.

We text each other every morning. They and I play the NYT games: wordle, connections, etc. we text each other our results.

My parents can tell I’m ok and I can tell they’re ok.

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Available-Fee1614@reddit

Seconding life 360!

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Reachforthesky777@reddit

No lol I'm half asleep in bed because I'm "it's the middle of the night" years old.

I remember those PSAs. I was too young when I first saw them to know that they were started because a lot of people didn't know they were supposed to know that.

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KorryBoston@reddit

We used to do Life360. But then the only time my mom would call us was when she’d check our location and voila, my husband was in the ER. The only gd time she calls.

“Oh, how are you. What? Oh, I had no idea? Really?”

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azlulu@reddit

They're in a condo in Pensacola watching TV on different TVs. I'm sorry you're going through this.

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potato_for_cooking@reddit

Mine are watching golf in a condo in Portland. Loudly, which is tricky with golf but here we are. And im also sorry op is going through this.

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MoeKneeKah@reddit

Yep, I can basically tell you what my parents are doing at any given moment. Right now, mom’s on the couch watching Law & Order or something similar. Dad’s in the recliner making sarcastic comments about whatever mom is watching, while playing games on an iPad. Comments are stuff like “that can’t be the killer, there’s still 15 minutes left in the episode”

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Chief7064@reddit

Its the third suspect, unless that person is from a “marginalized” group, then its back to the first suspect.

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FlightlessBird201@reddit

Shit. Goals.

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RedditSkippy@reddit

They’re sitting in the living room watching the Hallmark network. Actually, it’s almost 10pm, so at least one of them is in bed.

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dezertryder@reddit

I know my dad was in bed at 8:30.

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BCCommieTrash@reddit

The old man hasn't been driving since insurance costs were what they were after his sixth accident. Makes it harder to get those Walmart gift cards for the lotto company representative on the phone.

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Emunahd@reddit

My parents are both gone, but in a funny twist, my kids make sure they know where I am at all times and heaven forbid I’m not where they think I should be, lol. I’m 54 and in decent health, but their dad passed a few years ago at 51…so this makes them feel comfortable and I’m happy to do it.

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GrumpyCatStevens@reddit

I just saw mine about an hour ago. They’re probably still in the vicinity, but heading back to their home soon.

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Special_Wrap_1369@reddit

There were times when my 3 siblings and I would text each other asking, “Have you talked to dad today? I can’t get hold of him.”

Then one of us would have to go to his house. We never found him dead and he’d laugh at us for worrying and we’d yell at him about keeping his cell phone charged and turned on and nearby and he’d do it again a few months later.

We started calling him The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf, but we never stopped checking.

The funny thing was we couldn’t track him cause he had a 20 year old Nokia flip phone with push buttons.

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crafty_loser@reddit

Both are dead.

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Alltheprettydresses@reddit

Mynlarents are still reasonably healthy (mom's recovering from thyroid stuff), and I wish they would go somewhere. They have 3 pensions between them and spend nothing except for the basics. They won't even pay tolls to visit family. I give them credit for taking the train to their family reunion. Probably because everyone's either up in age or having babies.

But I do wish they'd at least go on a little vacation somewhere, or at least catch a movie or sit in the park.

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mjh8212@reddit

My dad never leaves the house and is asleep by 8pm. He doesn’t drive anymore and that’s a good thing. I’m a thousand miles away I don’t have to track his location. He lives with my ex husband. He lived with us most of our relationship their close.

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MissMurderpants@reddit

In their bed at the home.

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goosepills@reddit

I haven’t known where they are for at least the past decade lol

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NotaMillenialatAll@reddit

Yes. I share locations permanently with my sister and my mother. At this stage of life, it’s about safety

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ahutapoo@reddit

One's in the Pacific Ocean, and the other is getting ready to watch the 11 o'clock news.

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SnowflakeSWorker@reddit

My elderly grandfather took a female friend on a date, and they were gone for HOURS. He wouldn’t answer his cell phone (he was about 90 at the time). My uncle, who was in late 60s, and me in my early 40s, fretted, called the restaurant, and were ready to go on a drive when they finally got home. He thought it was hysterical. A couple years after that, he lost his driver’s license, and many fun days with him on his golf cart in The Villages consumed my work days, lol. He passed at 94 in 2019, the world is much more boring.

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Pristine_Main_1224@reddit

I think I love your grandfather, may he rest in peace.

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GeneralPatten@reddit

They're dead

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stavago@reddit

Dead lol

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yodamastertampa@reddit

Yes. Because I recently had to bury their ashes. Dug the grave myself at a family plot at a church.

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mcjon77@reddit

I haven't experienced this with my parents (my mom passed away 7 years ago and my dad is still living a semi-retired life with my stepmom). However, 25 years ago I did see this play out with my grandpa.

My grandpa met my grandma when he was 17 years old and was with her until the day she died. My mom and I thought he might just deteriorate afterwards because he didn't have any friends, so they moved him into an assisted living facility. He was grumpy at first, then happy, then a little over a year later he was asked to leave.

It turns out in that time my 75yo grandpa was banging AT LEAST four of the residents (including one who is living with her husband in the facility) with age ranges from late 60s to early 80s, and one of the CNAs that was younger than any of his children.

Even after he moved out of that facility the CNA found my aunt's number and was calling to ask where his new location was. We were all baffled by the situation because she couldn't be into him for money, since he didn't have any. I guess my grandpa was just laying pipe right.

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Medium-Mission5072@reddit

My mom is probably sitting in her living room watching TV with her dog who just had dental surgery after helping my stepdad who has Parkinson's to bed.

My dad, have no clue what that worthless piece of shit is doing. All I know is, he's still wasting the oxygen someone else could be breathing in.

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lisabearsitall@reddit

Yes. Find My Friends is great to find out when one of them is brought to the ER. They don’t like to bother us 🤦🏻‍♀️. But they can also see where I am if I’m traveling alone in a remotish area.

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Shot_Construction455@reddit

I hid a tile in each of his vehicles. I also convinced him to carry a slim tile in his money clip "just in case". They are all hooked to Life 360. My sister and I are totally in on it because this man is making us nuts. His area was hit hard by Hurricane Helene. We knew it was going to be an issue. We had a plan. He failed to keep to the plan and it took me 3 damn days to find him. Cue the tiles.

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JonathanTrager@reddit

Yep. Started sharing location with my parents (both in their 89s) within the last year.

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TriviaSandwich24@reddit

My parents are currently in a rehab facility together, for separate issues. And they are in the same room. I'm very happy about that. At least I know they are being taken care of. I live 5 hours away. But when the facility number pops up on my phone, I think, oh crap, what now. Hoping they will agree to go into independent housing soon.

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