Weka wrote:Forgot to get L from school??!! What!!! Oh my gosh, was she ok?
She was fine Weka, thankfully.
I am really cross about it. I asked my mum in law last week when I knew that Mick was working away. I arranged for them to stay at my mums overnight and as my mum doesn't drive I asked MIL to pick her up to take her to my mums. S was fine as she can walk to mums from her school.
L was at an after school running club so didn't need picking up until 4.45pm. Mick was at his mum and dads on Monday and her reminded them and I also rang them Monday evening to check that she was still okay to pick her up. My mum spoke to her about something on Tuesday morning and also reminded her.
Mum said it got to 5.15pm and my dad commented that he bet she had forgotten to go and fetch her. My mum just assumed that they were stuck in traffic. At 5.30 my mum rang my mum in law to see if she had taken L to their house for some reason and my FIL answered and said that they had completely forgotten about it and that the school had rung them when they realised that she was late - fortunately the school have both sets of grandparents numbers as emergency contacts.
And the reason they forgot - they were busy playing hidden object games on the computer.
Fortuantely this is the last time I should have to ask them to pick her up - I rarely ask anyway - probably four or five times over the whole time they have been at school. L only has four more weeks left at primary school and when she moves up to secondary it is within walking/bus distance of our house, my mums house and my in laws house.