This College Mom’s Dorm Room Move Has Us Laughing

When McKenna Pilling’s mom decided to help her daughter move out of her dorm room at Utah State University she thought she would give her a surprise.

But the surprise was on Deanna Pilling.

“She came to surprise me from New York City to help clean out my dorm and apparently walked in the wrong dorm,” Pilling told BuzzFeed News. “No one was in there so she laid down for five minutes in the wrong bed and decided to send me a picture as a surprise.”

McKenna knew her mother was not in her dorm room, because she was. Here is the text that followed.

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