the system
At 3:50pm I called the house to make sure myron was going to the bus stop for 4pm. I could get no answer at the house. I called Joel (Bob and Carolyn B.'s son)- well I was trying to get Bob or Carolyn or Paul or Sarah as James knows them. I always seem to get Joel when I have a lost child. He went to the bus stop to check if Myron was there and then went back to our house to see if Myron was there. Joel couldn't find Myron, so he went back to James' bus stop and met the bus. But James doesn't know Joel and Joel isn't on the approved list from the school, so they wouldn't release James to Joel. But at least by Joel being there, James knew we cared! Thanks Joel!
The bus carried on to AJ's stop and stopped. Presumably the bus driver called the school and the bus company. The school then started trying to call Myron, as well as our entire list of approved contacts.
The first on the list was my parents, as um, they are the closest family, oh about 5 hours away.
The secretary asked James- where is Brock University? James answered in St. Catharines. The secretary told James that having them arrive TOMORROW MORNING would be no good. She scratched them from the list.
Next she called Bob N. Yes, always there in an emergency is Bob N. (not blog reading Bob) He also only lives a few blocks from the school. He told them he was on his way.
The school calls Myron 3 times and leaves a message.
Finally, I get out of my lab and get Joels message that Myron wasn't there and the bus driver wouldn't let James off the bus.
I call the school. No answer.
I call the bus company. They are very glad to hear from me. They scold me for sending a person to the stop without telling them that someone else was to pick up James. I explain that he WASN'T. That Myron was supposed to, but I can't find him.
They tell me he is en route to the school.
I fly out of my office and bike as fast as I can to the school.
I arrive at the school.
No James.
I see James' teacher from last year and ask her if she knows where James is.
She says yes, that a man picked him up. She tells me that James wasn't worried and appeared fine.
So I guess that the man is Myron and head for home.
I get home and the boys are there and James is all EXCITED about the ADVENTURE he just had and tells me all about the story. Apparently Bob got to the school first, but then Myron arrived 5 minutes later or so.
Myron had bought a new dehumidifier for our crawl space as our old one worked fine but was too loud as the bed is over top the crawl space and the noise kept waking me. (So, if anyone needs a dehumidifier that works great (2 years old) but is really loud - good for a basement, let me know!) He decided to run the LOUD dehumidifier upstairs because I guess we were a bit humid and so he didn't hear the phone ring a gazillion times.
Then to top it off he decided that today was Thurs, which is a day when I pick James up and so he didn't need to go.
After James got home he carefully got the weekly calender from the fridge and x'd off the days that had passed and circled Myron's name on the times he is to do the pickup. Hope it helps!
The bus carried on to AJ's stop and stopped. Presumably the bus driver called the school and the bus company. The school then started trying to call Myron, as well as our entire list of approved contacts.
The first on the list was my parents, as um, they are the closest family, oh about 5 hours away.
The secretary asked James- where is Brock University? James answered in St. Catharines. The secretary told James that having them arrive TOMORROW MORNING would be no good. She scratched them from the list.
Next she called Bob N. Yes, always there in an emergency is Bob N. (not blog reading Bob) He also only lives a few blocks from the school. He told them he was on his way.
The school calls Myron 3 times and leaves a message.
Finally, I get out of my lab and get Joels message that Myron wasn't there and the bus driver wouldn't let James off the bus.
I call the school. No answer.
I call the bus company. They are very glad to hear from me. They scold me for sending a person to the stop without telling them that someone else was to pick up James. I explain that he WASN'T. That Myron was supposed to, but I can't find him.
They tell me he is en route to the school.
I fly out of my office and bike as fast as I can to the school.
I arrive at the school.
No James.
I see James' teacher from last year and ask her if she knows where James is.
She says yes, that a man picked him up. She tells me that James wasn't worried and appeared fine.
So I guess that the man is Myron and head for home.
I get home and the boys are there and James is all EXCITED about the ADVENTURE he just had and tells me all about the story. Apparently Bob got to the school first, but then Myron arrived 5 minutes later or so.
Myron had bought a new dehumidifier for our crawl space as our old one worked fine but was too loud as the bed is over top the crawl space and the noise kept waking me. (So, if anyone needs a dehumidifier that works great (2 years old) but is really loud - good for a basement, let me know!) He decided to run the LOUD dehumidifier upstairs because I guess we were a bit humid and so he didn't hear the phone ring a gazillion times.
Then to top it off he decided that today was Thurs, which is a day when I pick James up and so he didn't need to go.
After James got home he carefully got the weekly calender from the fridge and x'd off the days that had passed and circled Myron's name on the times he is to do the pickup. Hope it helps!
posted by Aphra at 9:23 PM
3 Comments:
oh man... that is an adventure!
i would love the loud dehumidifier! this post was very exciting. except the part of showing up and no james.
exciting
seems you need a new system :) M relying on you calling him to remind him that its his responsibility to pick up James doesn't seem to work well ... (and who calls you to remind you on your days -grin) ...
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