[Magdalen] Cameron, a third grader

[James Oppenheimer]

I had a spate of wrong numbers.

Finally:

phone:  "Ring ring!"

Me: Hello?

Victim: Is Steve there?

Me: Uh, no, he isn't.

V: Has he been there?

M: I don't think so.

V: Any idea when he'll be in?

M: Nope. No idea.

V: Well when was the last time you saw him?

M: I do not think I've ever seen him.

V: <pause> [obscenity]

(call ends.)

The wrong numbers also ended.

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:55 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cameron is a third-grader at a local Charter School.
>
> For some reason (number dyslexia/transposition? demonic
> intervention?) the school has my gf's cell phone as his
> parents' contact number. She gets daily phone calls.
> Cameron is (apparently) quite a handful.
>
> Every day she calls the school to tell them the reason the
> parents haven't called back per their request is because
> they never got the message. Every day she's assured the
> number has been corrected in the school's database.
>
> This has been going on for a month now. I'm ready to
> write it up for Boston Magazine.
>
> O brave new world.
> -M
>