Pointing Fingers and School Buses

It's January, and it turns out J-kid's school transportation is a re-problem.

Somebody, somewhere has messed up, and of course, noone is going to take reponsibility.

The Board of Education says they have no record of him even signing up for pay-for-use bussing, let alone cashing a monthly checque.

The Husband says he faxed in the paperwork and a checque for the whole school year late last August.

The Bus-Scheduling People couldn't be reached for the month of September, PERIOD.

Until I lost it one day, when J-kid sat outside school for 2 1/2 hours, wondering how he was going to get home. I had gone home, no kid. Heart failure. Another two hours of frantic searching. Found him.

So, thanks to a neighbour who's a bus driver, we got him on a bus the very next day.


Now we find out we've been stealing it. It's mid winter, and technically, the J-kid is now supposed to walk the 5 kilometers to school. Holy hell, when he grows up and tells his kid he had to walk all that way uphill in a snowdrift, he'll be telling the truth!

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Husband can't find cancelled check and wants to know what I'm going to do about it. Says it's not his problem if the Board doesn't cash cheques. (Didn't you miss $360 from your account????). J-kid gets yelled at because he forgets to pick up the appropriate paperwork at school. J-kid thought the checque was still being looked for.

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Sometimes I don't sleep all that well.