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I embarrassed myself on dd's first day of school!!!

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OrangeMoon · 10/09/2007 14:27

Dd started school today, doing afternoons for the first week, so me being me and not wanting to be late or having to rush, gets dd and ds ready early make sure dd has got everything she needs, by this point she is really excited to go to school, so off we go having to be there for 12.50pm only to arrive and rind the playground deserted, so i panik thinking i'm late and rush to the receptionist who smugly points out it is only 11.50am!!!!! aaaaarrrrrrgh!!!!!
So i then have to drag a very dissapointed dd back to the car and go home for a bit.

Oh well at least she is at school now and happy

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coppertop · 10/09/2007 14:29

LOL! Nothing wrong with being keen.

marymoocow · 10/09/2007 14:31

lol. I can empathise with that one. ds has started this afternoon, after watching his brother and sister going to school this morning. He's been asking for his lunch since about 9:30. Glad she got there ok in the end. At least the school knows that you are keen

suzycreamcheese · 10/09/2007 14:31

i thought you were gonna say you had tucked your skirt into your knickers and strolled into congested playground!

they will mark your card as 'keen'
hope she has nice day!

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OrangeMoon · 10/09/2007 14:39

Well i think i have well and truely gone off the receptionist, dd's teacher said to me as i left "don't forget its 3.15 they finish" with lots of emphasis on the 3.15, so i can only assume the receptionist has had a good old laugh about it, oh well never mind only another 6 years of this school to go.

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DarrellRivers · 10/09/2007 14:43

At least you didn't arrive a day too early

MrsWeasley · 10/09/2007 14:46

At least you brightened the receptionists day and made her smile.

ComeOVeneer · 10/09/2007 14:52

LOL. This morning I took dd into school (she started back last week into year 1). The reception children were startingthis morning, and we have to walke past here old (reception) class to get to her new one. I absent mindidly marched her into her old classroom and gave her a kiss and walked out. DS happily went in, popped her stuff on her old peg and went off to do something, until her old teacher called to me that she was in the wrong class .

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OrangeMoon · 10/09/2007 14:52

Oh darrell rivers you didn't did you? actually i think i would be less embarrassed by that, don't know why i guess everyone can gets their days mixed up but everyone is supposed to be able to tell the time, heck i even looked at the clock several times before we left

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handlemecarefully · 10/09/2007 14:52

lol - bless you!

EricL · 10/09/2007 15:05

I have arrived at the school at finishing time once only to start panicking at the sight of the locked gates and desertion - thinking that i was horribly late.

I was an hour early of course.

I'm sure others have done this.

Anyone?

Shit...........

DarrellRivers · 10/09/2007 15:08

See here i did just that

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OrangeMoon · 10/09/2007 15:39

i feel a bit better knowing i'm not the only one who has done things like this, luckily i picked dd up at the right time lol, hopefully tomorrow will be better

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1dilemma · 10/09/2007 22:06

OK so you didn't hear about how we turned up 2 days early?
Whole family too.
Head came out just to rub it in and make sure we knew we'd been seen!!(what makes it worse is that school has uniform so whole street must have known we were early

coppertop · 11/09/2007 22:09

Sorry 1dilemma but PMSL at your post!

Hulababy · 11/09/2007 22:14

To make you feel a bit better I did this before - from the other side though. When I was teaching I had a aprticularly long double lesson with a year 8 class. And I have no idea what happened to me, what I was thinking, anything. But for some unbeknown reason I dismissed them all for hometime about 45 minutes early!!! And the little rotters never let on either. They all just got up, packed upand went off!!!

1dilemma · 12/09/2007 00:59

coppertop
Hul too you must have been a very popular teacher.

1dilemma · 12/09/2007 00:59

Hula sorry

arfishy · 12/09/2007 02:47

I'm really trying hard not to PMSL at all of you because I know it will come back to haunt me karmically when DD starts school in Jan.

But...

PMSL!!

I think the sarcy receptionist is winning it. ROFL at her reminding you in very simple language about pick-up time.

Hulababy · 12/09/2007 09:02

1dilemma - oh yes; not sure the head of department was as impressed though. I was only in my first couple of years of teaching at the time.

WaynettaVonSlob · 12/09/2007 09:04

I thought you were going to say that she should have been there att 8.50!!!

pagwatch · 12/09/2007 09:13

I survived first couple of days but yesterday when picking DD up she said she liked the snack I had packed.

"Really" I asked, in front of all the mums and teacher, "did you like the redc*nts".

Redcurrants.
Redcurrants

fortunecookie · 12/09/2007 09:15

yesterday ds(4)patted his teacher on her rather ample bottom (she was bending over) to get her attention. Get your hands off her bottom! I shouted.

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