8.30pm on a Sunday: "Mum, I need a lamb's heart for school tomorrow"

[LauderSyme]

This was DS at the weekend. He seemed surprised and aggrieved that such a thing could not be procured for him, in my sleepy little town, by 8.30am the next day.

What random, rare or peculiar thing have you been asked to provide, with or without good notice?

Good Lord. Doesn't the school provide things like that? Or is it for a food class?

You had a whole 12 hour window in which to find a lamb and extract their heart 🤣 you should be grateful for this notice - usually I get it on the way out the door to school.

Biology maybe a level?

I surprised mine by procuring coconut milk from the local shop... she had completely missed it on the ingredients list for Food class.

Brilliant! Exactly the sort of thing my dc come out with!

Last time this happened, it was a Sunday night. Dd announced to me that she had been put in charge of procuring a change float for the cake stall her class were running the next day...and did I have any loose change! I had to search in every bag, pocket and down the sofa for some coins!

I once told my mum I needed a kumquat for food technology.

The word "fuck" and "off" were exchanged.

Ah we had the same morning op, me before school on the ground next to the car in the supermarket weighing out the only flour we didn’t have in the house!
My son once woke me at three in the morning to tell me he had to do a project on a really random area in our locality. He’d chosen it because he didn’t want the project to have to be too long🙈

just going to put this here...

I at least had a week's notice to procure a sheep heart, and a very understanding local butcher. I kept it in the freezer in a tub labelled "[DD's name]'s frozen heart".
I had a last minute request for a medieval packed lunch. Fulfilled the brief admirably with a rectangular mince pie, some candied peel, a bit of roast chicken and a piece of cheese.

orange leggins for school assembly. tomorrow.

To be honest, at least you got almost a days notice!

It's not been unheard of for my kids to announce half a. Hour before school started that they needed X, Y and Z.

I say this In jest obviously!!

One of my favourite parts of my job is going to the abattoir to get hearts for my school I get 15 mins of extra in bed

Without being too outing it was for a sort of extended science project.

DS told me that due to the shame of lacking the required organ, he would have to skip that bit of the day. But later at home it nonchalantly transpired, "it was fine, lots of people didn't have one".

Remember back when we had to send text messages on the number keypad?

When we were doing A levels, my friend text saying she had "cut up a boys heart at school".
We used pig hearts at ours....

When I was at primary school, I once 'reminded' my mum as I was going to bed that I needed to take my angel costume for the nativity to school the next day. It was the first time I had mentioned it to her. She was unamused at having to stay up late, tearing up a tablecloth of her grandmother and stitching it together into an angel's costume.

Brings a whole new meaning to heartbreaker 💔

This thread is hilarious. Only because it's now happening to you guys, not me. When it used to happen to me it. Gave. Me. The. Fucking. Rage.

Yup, I've been there. Lemongrass, in November. Actually I have no idea when it would have been seasonal, I'd never bought it before.

Just burst out laughing….hes not the first. I too informed my mum at 8pm the night before that I needed a lambs heart for school! Granted nearly 20 years ago but she still goes on about it!

I used to go home for lunch when I was at primary school.

Me: 'I need xxxxx for Art this afternoon.'
Mum: 'How long have you known about this?'

Not the same thing, but it brought back a memory; I lived only yards away from my primary school and when I was about 10, my teacher sent me home with a piece of card covered in glue to find a cobweb. My mum was incensed, and I was sent back to tell the teacher that we didn't have any bloody cobwebs for her.

Aldi! Put it in my stir fries. Also I would have been able to get a lambs heart. It would have been cooked though. I’m assuming no good to be dissected in science!