Tuesday, February 13, 2007

LATE FOR EARLY — by Steve Nadis

We (as in my family) are often late for things, though I never used to be late for anything. I have an effective strategy, however, for dealing with this problem: I blame it on the kids. But that’s not fair. The fact is, we’re barely making it through the day. I’m late; they’re late; we’re all late. I’m late getting to sleep each night and late waking up each morning. Even this post is late (by about 15 hours), to pick an obvious example.

Given all that as a backdrop, it’s kind of surprising that my wife, in a fit of optimism, signed up our youngest daughter for “early dropoff” at her preschool. Every day I take her, we’re “late for early,” as my daughter puts it. With any luck, we’re still “early for late,” as she says, though on many occasions we’re even “late for late.” In those cases, I can’t help wondering why we’re paying a considerable sum for the privilege of being late every single day for early dropoff–paying, in other words, for the privilege of being “late for early.” And setting our poor innocent child up for failure.

Posted by Snake at 05:22:19

LATE FOR EARLY — by Steve Nadis

We (as in my family) are often late for things, though I never used to be late for anything. I have a good strategy for dealing with this problem–blaming it on the kids. But that’s not fair. The fact is, we’re barely making it through the day. Given that as a backdrop, it’s kind of surprising that my wife, in a fit of optimism, signed our youngest daughter for “early dropoff” at her preschool. Ever day I take her, we’re “late for early,” as she puts it. With any luck, we’re still “early for late,” as she puts it, though on many occasions we’re “late for late.” In those cases, I can’t help wondering why we’re paying for the privilege of being late every single day for early dropoff.
Posted by Snake at 05:22:18

LATE FOR EARLY — by Steve Nadis

We (as in my family) are often late for things, though I never used to be late for anything. I have a good strategy for dealing with this problem–blaming it on the kids. But that’s not fair. The fact is, we’re barely making it through the day. Given that as a backdrop, it’s kind of surprising that my wife, in a fit of optimism, signed our youngest daughter for “early dropoff” at her preschool. Ever day I take her, we’re “late for early,” as she puts it. With any luck, we’re still “early for late,” as she puts it, though on many occasions we’re “late for late.” In those cases, I can’t help wondering why we’re paying for the privilege of being late every single day for early dropoff.
Posted by Snake at 05:22:17
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  1. Marco Polo says:
    February 13, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    I whole-heartedly Disagree! My older sister, upon being repeatedly dropped off late for Hi-School by…1 of our P’s, vowed to never suffer the embarrasment again, &, once w/ license, always arrived at school (w/ me ;) ON TIME for that entire Spring of… ‘71.
    She’ll head a major NY corporation before she’s 35. You wait& see!

  2. Marco Polo says:
    February 13, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    Your DAUGHTER, of course.
    (My sister already has a well-paying, respected job with the CT Council for the Arts)

  3. Snake says:
    February 13, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    I hope you’re right, MP, then she can help support her poor father. Maybe we are doing right by her after all. I’m going to try to believe that.

  4. guttersnake says:
    February 14, 2007 at 10:32 pm

    Does this count as leaving a child behind?… because if your paying for private schooling, you should a least be afforded avoidance of that.

  5. Snake says:
    February 14, 2007 at 10:55 pm

    No child left behind is the law of the land, GS.

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