Ok, so I just got back to Birmingham (my home) from a 5-day family trip to Dallas, Texas for my brother-in-law’s wedding. I haven’t been to Dallas since 1971. It was a nice trip. Here’s the weird part.
Some of you who have been around awhile may know that I have another, very different, website about parenting teenagers as they become automobile drivers. It’s parentingteendrivers.com .
So, I’m checking out at the hotel today and my daughters had been having breakfast in the lobby and were watching TV. So, they say, “DAD! COME HERE!”. They had been watching a long segment on a Dallas TV-station morning show in which a Dallas-area pediatrician was being interviewed about parenting teen drivers. Turns out the whole interview was about this pediatrician discovering my website and using it with her own son and then starting to hand out the website info in her practice. They flashed the URL four times and showed the bullet points from the website.
I mean, what are the chances that I would be in Dallas for the first time in 30 years on the morning that they did that on Dallas TV?
Weird…
Dale
[ This Message was edited by: DaleWisely on 2002-06-11 19:12 ]
Hello Dale:
Glad your website is getting some well deserved attention. Though my children are a bit too young to drive yet, I have passed along your site to friends, and plan to use the site when my young’uns are old enough to operate a vehicle.
As to the answer to your question, “What are the chances…?”, apparently 100 percent.
Dale,
I’ll go along with what others have stated - and I will get “all religious.” For the One Who created the universe and all it contains, arranging a little serendipity such as that is a pleasure - as a gift to His son. It’s His noticing of the detail in our lives, such as you have related, that really gets me all mushy inside.
On 2002-06-11 21:27, Sara wrote:
That’s too cool that your site got recognition! That’s very weird that it happened to be on the news the same time you were in Dallas.
You were in the next town from me (I live in Arlington). Did you visit Arlington? If you didn’t, you didn’t miss much. lol.
In fact, I took the girls to 6Flags!
Thanks to all for your comments.
[ This Message was edited by: DaleWisely on 2002-06-11 22:41 ]
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Dale, tried to log onto your site and this was what I got.
Must have been a great experience…bet you felt 10 ft tall.
Dale, tried to log onto your site and this was what I got. >
Must have been a great experience…bet you felt 10 ft tall.
GM – it looks like you had a space (thats the %20 part) and a dot in your URL – you probably accidently got them when you cut and pasted it. Try again, it’s working fine for me.
Great site Dale, I have a few years befome my son gets there, but I’m nervous already.
I walk to work everyday, about ten minutes so I don’t use a car. But I went to your alternative website and got to thinking that there should be a website for parents of adults,with what I see of driving habits of adults. Just a thought.
