My sister posted about phone calls the other day. We were laughing about it in the office when the phone rings. I answered it. This is what followed:
Me- "High school attendance office."
Caller- "Um, I'm Shawna Sluffer's* dad and I need to excuse her from 4th period today."
Me- "Ok. Let me look her up on the computer." I pull up her attendance and notice that she missed that class on Tue- unexcused. She has missed that class, unexcused a lot. She also has quiet a few other random unexcused abscences.
Me- " I see she missed the same class on Tue. Should that have been excused as well?"
Dad- "Oh, um, yeah, yeah."
Me- kind of suspicious because he doesn't sound like he knows what is going on. "I notice she has some other unexcused abscences on the 18th. Should we have taken care of these already?"
Dad- Um, Really? Well, lets just excuse all of her abscences this year. Yeah, let's do that."
Me- "Ok, I can do that. I will need to ask your name in order to do this."
By now I was pretty sure it wasn't dad. His hanging up the phone when I asked his name almost confirmed it for me. The clincher came when I called dad, asked if he had just called to excuse his daughter and he said no. Wouldn't want to be her when dad got home last night.
*name has been changed
Indeed.
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