When I first uttered the words "going away to college" to my parents, there was this moment of dead silence, followed by, "Great. How are you going to pay for it?"
Um, what about that college fund you started for me the day I was born? I asked, already anticipating the roar of laughter and my father's standard response, "What, do you think I have money growing on a tree in the back yard?"
End of conversation.
