A mum shared the reason why her son texted her a seemingly random emoji while he was having a sleepover at a friend's place. She had just gone to bed when her phone pinged with a 'hotdog' icon and jumped into action.
After seeing it she rushed over in the car to pick him and take him home, who then told her that his friend's granddad's 'weird' behaviour was making him feel uncomfortable. Taking to Reddit, the concerned parent explained: "It’s code for I want to come home, but I want it to be your fault. Any random emoji when we’re not texting each other will work.
"He was supposed to be staying the night with a friend, so I was concerned when I get this text after I’ve already gone to bed." The quick-thinking mum then replied chastising him for not finishing his chores before leaving, which meant he had to come home. Of course, it was all a ruse.
She said: 'I called him and told him “you were supposed to unload the dishwasher before you left, now you’ve lost your privilege of spending the night. I’ll be there in five minutes, have your stuff gathered up.'
"He got in the car and I asked what’s up. He said his friend’s grandpa was making him feel uncomfortable, but he didn’t know how to tell the friend he wanted to leave, then he thanked me for getting him out of there."
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The mum added that she was "grateful" her son remembered to send a random emoji in any situation he felt uncomfortable in so that she'd come and collect him. "I don’t know if this will be helpful, or even noticed, but I wanted to put it out there in case anyone needs ideas on getting their kids out of situations when the kid feels like they can’t talk," she added.
According to a later comment by the poster, her Reddit story was shared more than 120,000 times on Facebook. She exclaimed: "I am overwhelmed by all of the positive comments. Thank you so much! I really thought maybe five people would see it, and if it helped one person it was worth the time it took to type it out.
"One of you fine Redditors shared it to Facebook and it has been shared there over 120k times as well. Let me just tell you, I almost had a heart attack when I saw that one of my cousins shared a post on Facebook and I opened the notification and saw my Reddit post!"
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Many users were keen to know exactly what the granddad did to warrant her son's reaction, as one wrote: "Holy s**t scary situation what more did he say about the weird grandpa". The mum replied: "He said the grandpa sat them all down and told them he loved them. Then he was hugging all of them and kissing the tops of their heads. He was talking about how he wouldn’t always be here and he just wanted them to know he was proud of them and how much he loves them all.
"He said it wasn’t in a 'creepy' way, it wouldn’t have bothered him if one of his own grandparents had done exactly the same, but it felt wrong for someone he doesn’t know that well and he just wanted out." While other parents also shared their secret codes between them and their children to use in similar situations, including "skunk", "marshmallow" and "the hamster needs to be fed."
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