I’m sitting at work this morning and I received a call on my cell phone from an “Unknown” caller…so I ignore it because I generally don’t answer those.  About 3 minutes go by and then I get a call from my ex-wife.  She proceeds to ask me why my oldest daughter is not in school and my heart dropped.  I quickly responded letting her know that I dropped her off promptly at 7:45am and why was she asking.  The school had called her (they called me first but the number was unknown…odd) and wanted to know if our daughter was out sick today.

Ooohh, my blood was boiling at this point.  I hung up the phone and with fury in my eyes, called the school back.  I spoke with the secretary and was very urgent in my words.  I told her I needed her to go to my daughters room now and check.  She came back about 30 seconds later and said “Yep, she’s here.  We must have made a mistake on the attendance sheet.”  Those 30 seconds felt like hours!  It took me all of about 2 nano-seconds to respond with, “You’re sorry??  You’re sorry for giving me a heart attack because you “lost” my daughter!!??”  I was trying to be as composed as possible and chose my words carefully but I ended with, “In the future, you need to make sure your facts are straight before you go calling parents and making them crap their pants”.

At this point, I will be researching the costs of microchipping my children so that there is never any question about their whereabouts.  I will be writing a very long letter to the Superintendent expressing my very angry concern over this matter.  What you don’t know is that this is the SECOND time this has happened.  I was able to brush the first time under the rug, but a second time of losing my child is NOT acceptable.

“There will be blood tonight!!”