This morning I felt like I was part of a NASCAR racing team! The alarm didn’t wake us up this morning so as I scrambled around so my child wouldn’t be late for school, I panicked… it was ugly! Sounding like a boot-camp drill Sergeant while flailing about and barking orders through the hallway “up, up up… c’mon, c’mon, c’mon! Out of bed, out of bed, out of bed… In the shower, in the shower!!!! Hurry, hurry, hurry… out the door, out the door, in the car, in the car, GO-GO-GO… M O V E I T!
Finally, I arrived in front of the school with only seconds before the school bell would ring. There were cars just sitting there! Why do kids get out of the car so slowly???!!! I honked my horn. My child was horrified with my blaring of the horn (maybe 7 honks was a bit much). She slid herself down to the floor board… her usual hiding place. I saw a small section of the curb in front of the school and spontaneously made a U-turn… and wallah! Phew, we made it!
And then the sirens… and then I heard the cop’s blow-horn “Ma’am, stay put”…. If my daughter was embarrassed by my honking, you can only imagine how she felt when the cop sounded off and warned me to stay put like I was some kind of wanna-be fugitive… The lengths we’ll go to in order for our kids not to be tardy!!!! I got a ticket, that will cost me $222! LESSON LEARNED (no pun intended).
