Annoying middle school attendance lady. Years ago, I called the middle school attendance office to have my two boys sent to the office so I could take them out of school for a family emergency.

The attendance lady was not happy about this and went on a rant about how I should have sent a note with them a day or two in advance and then she would have had them in the office.

Now she has to send a student to each of their rooms

to get them and this could take 30 minutes. It's a very old building with no intercoms to each room.

Sir, do you understand what an inconvenience it is for me to stop my students from doing an assigned task

and have them go and get your children? I was trying to interject, but she wasn't having it.

She continued on and on about how all of the protocols are in the student handbook if I would

have just taken the time to read it at the beginning of the year. She then finally stopped long

enough for me to speak. Mom, you're absolutely right. I'm sorry I didn't send a note with the boys.

Now, unfortunately, their grandfather didn't give me advance notice that he was going to have a

heart attack this morning. The surgeon performing his open heart surgery didn't give us any

advance notice either. We have to leave town immediately. The stuttering and awkwardness was amazing.

Honestly, it was hysterical and a great stress reducer while he was in surgery.

My dad loves that story.

Oh, so he survived.

That is even better.

Yeah, the word that springs to mind here is just Jobsworth.

As I said, I'm very happy that your granddad wasn't actually dead. I thought he was, and then I thought it was going to be an extremely sarcastic response from your dad, something along the lines of, well, unfortunately, we didn't get advanced notice that my dad was about to die, but at least he's still alive and hopefully he could even laugh at this story. Absolutely insane. I mean, is it that hard to go and get students out of a classroom?

Also, just send an email. That's what we did at my school. Teachers got an email and they were on their

computers anyway. Oh yeah, just send a kid around to go and get them. It's not that hard.

And in familial emergencies like this, obviously it has to be done. You just haven't had the right D yet.

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