Thursday morning, 8:00 am. The pager goes off.
"Hey, we are rounding in the unit at 8:00 this morning"
"Really. Was anyone planning on telling me I needed to be there an hour early?"
"Oh, um, yeah, the other student was supposed to let you know. I guess he forgot."
"Wow, well ain't that just a bummer. The deal is, since no one bothered to tell me, I am taking my daughter to school this morning. Sorry, won't be there until about 9:00. "
And that was that. After all, it was 'Donuts with Dad' day at the school. Really it was mostly an excuse to get the parents there to buy stuff from the book fair. But hey, it was something that my daughter was very excited about and I figured I needed to come through. There are precious few things I can make it to for her school, so I try to hit the ones I can. And this one I could.
Or so I thought.
Well, if they forgot to tell me I needed to be there early I refused to feel too bad about it. I had made a commitment and I was going to stick with it. So we went to the library, each had a donut and a cup of juice, and my daughter picked up a book at a bargain price. All in all, I think I definitely had the better morning.