Jeanne Robertson Video | I'm Trying to Tell You

Jeanne tells hilarious story about her son's college days

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so I mentioned Neal on because it is such an outstanding University and all of us here are proud of it even if you didn't go they were so proud of what's happening out there and there are all these smart students and there are other students too that brings me to our son beaver beaver you graduated from Elon University by the grace of God and beavers son his oldest son my grandson rider named after a truck graduated from Iran in the spring and got a job and our younger grandson your second son beaver is gray named after a crayon and he's coming in the fall so we're quite excited about that too but beaver son beaver is the one I'm gonna tell you about beaver named after a rodent beaver do you remember the story I'm going to tell is about the Elan wreck well you had so many this one was the record he on and and we never saw him until he needed us and the phone rang in one afternoon and beaver said mom mom mom I've had a wreck okay what's the first question parents ask are you okay were you hurt and he said I'm fine mama and the people in the other car are fine too but their car is torn up bad and there's something I need to tell you I said this hold on where are you he said well I came out of the gym from basketball practice and I got in the car and I was going to drive over to the library of course gonna go to the library are there any people in here who went to Iran then you know same parking lot is between the library and the gymnasium you don't drive from the gymnasium over to the library you just walk a few feet and there it is but I let this ride because he was upset he said at our car came flying I was backing out and I was backing out slowly and I had looked you know I always just a joke right there said I always looked and I and his car came tearing through the through the parking lot and my foot remember last week I told you that my my shoes were too small and he said my foot must have gone numb because my shoes were too too small you said wait till spring break and we'll get some new shoes but we didn't get new shoes and I my foot was numb and it slid off and onto the accelerator I said don't blame this wreck on me because I didn't get you some shoes he said and there's something else I said no just just be calm I'm on the way we'll come to that parking lot I'll get left frame would be over there as fast as we can but the one thing I need for you to do is call campus security he said mom that's what I've been trying my best to tell you campus security is who I here [Applause] you [Applause] you