Am I Over Reacting?

[Josiegirl]

Dcp didn't mention dcb looked or acting sick at drop off? I know they can start puking quickly with no sign of illness but just wondering if dcb was a little off before he even showed up at your door? That's me, always the skeptic and couldn't help but think maybe that's why nobody rushed to answer the phone too. Twenty five minutes may not seem like a long time but as has been mentioned, what if it had been an emergency?

[BumbleBee]

Dcb looked fine when he was dropped off. Ate breakfast fine. 1st puke was on my carpet, 2nd was in the bathroom sink.

It's over & done with. He got picked up. I'm closed on weekends.

Thanks everybody. Have a good weekend. TGIF

[cheerfuldom]

I require backup people to be local and within a 30 minute drive time. they need to be able to pickup a child asap. i would not allow grandma to be on the emergency list as I dont consider 45 minutes to be local.

[Scout]

No, it should not be that hard. I was texting my puker's mom from the time she said she felt bad and she immediately responded....And she is a teacher. Granted, it was probably before classes but, still. It took her a good while to locate someone to pick up while I am pretty sure her class would've been in session. She wins an award today from me!happyface

[kendallina]

20 minutes until you're able to reach someone doesn't seem like a huge deal. 45 minutes until someone can be there sounds like the best they can do. Doesn't sound unreasonable, I wouldn't let it bother me.

[Hunni Bee]

My commute to my job is 30 minutes on the freeway.

If you have to take the regular interstate make it 35-40.

Any accidents or roadwork, or if you try to take the surface streets, you're looking at 45 minutes to an hour. I live in a huge county.

So if for some reason I was not at work, and was called to pick my daughter, who attends part time, it would take me that long to get there, no way around it. My sister lives in the area, but works even farther away.

So while i don't think its acceptable that you couldn't reach anyone for half an hour, i can see why the pick up situation might be that way.

[Lucy]

One thing I've learned when I leave messages is to not explain the entire thing. I'm afraid if I say "DCB puked and needs to be picked up", they'll listen to the message and purposely take forever to call me back. Soooo... I say, "We've had an emergency and I need you to call me immediately." So what... let them assume the boy hurt himself. It gets them to call back fast!! And I'm not lying... it IS an emergency! He needs to go home NOW!!

I've done this twice. You learn to know which families need that sort of manipulation.

[BumbleBee]

Had to come back and update this.

Dcb's sister puked at school on Monday and the school called me after going through their list of contacts because they couldn't get ahold of anybody either.

She was eventually picked up (not by me) but it seems I'm not the only one who had this issue.