I receieved a call to my cell phone today at work. Unfortunately my office is where all cell phone calls go to die so all I heard before the inevitable "drop" was my mother-in-law saying that my seven and a half year old son had been hurt in an accident with a car.
I tried to get a hold of her for a couple of minutes to no avail when she finally called me on my office phone. Turns out that my son crashed his bike into a parked car while doing a trick at a pretty high speed and was only scratched up a bit. He was barely hurt, but somehow managed to imbed his handlebar into the brake/parking lights of a new Nissan Altima. It took a couple of people to get the bike loose and the lights and casing were destroyed.
I love my mother-in-law (she is saint), but that was the worst opening line to a phone call I've ever had. I was frantic until I heard the final story. Bikes and cars can be fixed easily, but kids aren't quite so durable.
Anyone else have any brutal phone calls or messages that turned out to be not nearly as bad as they could have been?
I tried to get a hold of her for a couple of minutes to no avail when she finally called me on my office phone. Turns out that my son crashed his bike into a parked car while doing a trick at a pretty high speed and was only scratched up a bit. He was barely hurt, but somehow managed to imbed his handlebar into the brake/parking lights of a new Nissan Altima. It took a couple of people to get the bike loose and the lights and casing were destroyed.
I love my mother-in-law (she is saint), but that was the worst opening line to a phone call I've ever had. I was frantic until I heard the final story. Bikes and cars can be fixed easily, but kids aren't quite so durable.
Anyone else have any brutal phone calls or messages that turned out to be not nearly as bad as they could have been?
