Children of helicopter parents. What was the most embarrassing thing they put you through?

When I went away to college, my parents would call me every day. I went away to a fraternity

weekend during my freshman year, where us pledges weren't supposed to bring our phones. I told my

parents that I'm going away for three days and not to call me. On the day we were coming back,

the guy driving us got a call. He then hands me the phone and tells me to call my parents. It turns out that when my parents couldn't reach me for three days, they came to my college and went around my dorm and half the campus asking everyone if they'd seen their lost little boy. I was 18 at the time. On top of that, since I was on their family cell phone

plan, they looked up all the numbers I'd recently called and texted. They proceeded to call

everyone, letting them know that I was lost and asking if they knew where I was. This included

girls I had crushes on but barely knew, random classmates and mild acquaintances. When I got back

to my worried parents waiting for me

at my dorm, I found my cell phone with a bunch of messages of people asking if I was okay,

and letting me know my parents were looking for me. For the next day, every one in five people I

walked past asked me if I talked to my parents because they were looking for me. My grandmother

once did something similar to my dad,

except he wasn't at a frat retreat he was on a training exercise in the Air Force. When she

couldn't get a hold of him, she called the base commander's office, then Washington, D.C. He got

some crazy work detail, cleaning gum off the dumpster, if I recall correctly, as punishment

for his mom being nuts. My cousin had an interesting

freshman year experience. She was roomed with another girl with a helicopter mother, and the

mother slept in this tiny dorm room with the daughter and my cousin for several weeks

until she could convince the RA to kick her mother out. My dad followed me into jury duty when I was 21 because he didn't

believe that I could do it myself. I insisted that he didn't come, but he did it anyway. He was

stopped by security guards outside the area and threw a huge fuss about not being able to accompany

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