Waiting for the 5:25 a.m. phone call
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- January
- 28
Remember the old days, when you had to turn the radio up high and wait for the long alpabetical list of school closing to find out if yours was cancelled for the day? No longer.
Now, most school districts have invested big bucks in automated calling systems. In our home, that means that the phone rings at 5:25 a.m., with a chipper recorded message telling us that school is closed.
Nice to know. But I wish that the phone didn’t have to wake me out of a deep sleep at 5:25 a.m.
We had a feeling that today would be a snow day. So late last night, I put the ringers on all the phones in my house on silent. When the alarm went off at its usual time of 6:30 a.m. this morning, I checked my voice mail. Sure enough, there was a recorded message from the schools at 5:25 a.m.
I didn’t wake the kids up to tell them. But they found out soon enough. My older daughter got out of bed and checked the school Web site.
“No school!” she said happily as she woke up her sleeping sister to share the great news.
Luckily their dad was able to stay home with them today. I had to go to work. I wish I had a snow day.
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on Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 at 3:00 pm by Jane Lerner.
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