I went and got the boys (mac and a friend we took) at 8:40 and apologized profusely to the host parents for everyone else. In front of our kids I lamented that how are you supposed to be teaching your own kids manners and rules and whatnot by not showing up on time? The mom of the kid we had taken with us was appalled as well. There were 6 other kids there, so 6 parents just not showing up to get their kids on time, OR relying on texts from their own kids about when to pick up and NOT checking with the host parents.
Mac knows he cannot go over to a house without me talking with the parents. And my family is constantly on me about how I let him rule the house, when I see these other fucking kids with what seems to be no rules or oversight at all.
My brother did have the occasional friend whose parents seemed to forget about him and my mom would be like "We need to talk about your kid."
She'd say "He's great, but it's been two days!"
oh HELL no. At an hour past pick up time I would be in the kid's face asking for the parent's number and if they did not pick up I would drive that kid home.
I apparently am a BIG ASS rule follower.
Parent not picking up a kid, for days and being unreachable, is how I came within weeks of becoming her legal guardian.
We usually arrive on time to pick up our kids but stay and chat and forget to leave. oops.
I did enjoy being at Messiah sing-alongs and surprising people. I was a first soprano. Ah, youth.
I'm probably going to a Messiah sing-along tomorrow. I love singing Handel because his alto lines are so good. I enjoy singing harmony, but not when it means being a human bagpipe drone stuck on D or E for half the song. Tenors and basses get to use their whole ranges a lot more often than we do for some reason.
Because altos are so dependable.
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At least now I know what I kept interrupting (my office door is in some of the shots) while trying to do my job.
Because altos are so dependable.
Sigh. That's us. The Hufflepuffs of the choral world.
I always wanted to be an alto, but I was stuck as a first soprano who couldn't hit the high notes. When I auditioned for choir in college I sang really low and became an alto two. In some weird quirk of fate we became the tenors, and I couldn't sing a bunch of it because it went to low.
