I'll get right on that

I was out of my office for most of the day today for a variety of reasons.

So towards the end of the day I was at my desk and checked my voicemail..

Had one voice mail from what sounded like an elderly woman, giving me her name address and phone number and asked to speak to the social worker as soon as possible.  We don’t have one so okay…

I call her back to see if she is thinking counseling.. nope so far off.

I preface this with she sounded either on something, suffering from dementia or had a few drinks..

When I called, she had no idea who I was despite me telling her 3 times who I was, didn’t even remember leaving me a voice mail, let alone even calling the school. Yes we were on the struggle bus folks.

Finally it was oh, yeah I guess I did call you… Had to ask who her child was cause still didn’t know this and I didn’t recognize the name of the parent.

Asked about counseling.. nope that wasn’t it.

Ended the conversation with this…

“I have no food in the house, I need the social worker to bring me some over”. Yep.. that was a new one for me.

Turns out student gets food for the weekends but she doesn’t come and get it..