Time to get creative with some paperclips!
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“Figure it out. Use paperclips if you have to. Wave your Harry Potter wand. I don’t know, kiddo - I just don’t understand how this happens.”
That was the sentiment I *wanted* to tell my 7 2/3 year old child today when I got the call from the school nurse.
“He doesn’t have any shoelaces.”
Excuse me?
“The shoelaces are completely out of his shoes.”
How does that happen? I mean, he left the house with shoelaces this morning.
“Well, there are no shoelaces. We can’t let him leave the office until he has some, due to safety concerns.”
Oh. Ok. Can I speak with him?
“Hi Mom.”
Hi, yeah. Listen… what happened?
“Well, I was just running around, outside. And uhm.. then, my shoelaces were just really loose… so then when I came down, off the slide… they were just, gone.”
Of course. Right. Ok, put the nurse back on please.
This is one of the major downfalls of working 30 miles away from where we live/he goes to school. His dad was just a few miles away, but unfortunately was about to head into a meeting and wouldn’t be able to handle it.
Luckily when I got this job I gave a girlfriend who works/lives close by the key to my house. Where, as if by magic, I have an extra pair of shoelaces.
I no sooner got back into the office with my lunch and my phone is ringing again. What, now???
Turns out it was a recruiter. Calling about an opening. That will pretty much be perfect for me.
And it’s less than 10 miles from where we live, and from where we’re moving.
And it pays a lot more.
Oh my gawd.
Am I really contemplating switching jobs again? Am I?
Well, I’m going to update my resume this weekend and send it over to the recruiter. Just to see. There’s no harm in that, right?
So, yeah. I guess I am.
Funny how those two events happened together, on the same day, within less than an hour of each other.
