Subtlety

SHE SAID:

I was a bit perplexed today when Tony called me to inform me that the assistant school nurse where my son goes to school called Tony to tell him that my son scraped his finger.

He scraped his finger? Do I need to pick him up? No, it was just a scrape and they sent him back to class.

Ummhmm. Some women have no couth at all. Don't we know what "subtle" is anymore? The last time she called Tony was to tell him that my son said his stomach hurt, but they sent him back to class. When the baby was days old, I had to go up to the school for something and Tony drove me up there and she said that the baby was cute and she knows "where he gets his cuteness from" and looked at Tony the entire time she was talking.

I'm not mad, rather I'm flattered. The fact that the assistant school nurse has a crush on Tony is kind of cute. She's not the first.

HE SAID:

She's not the first? What have I been reduced to... Eye candy? Seriously folks, I feel so violated.

According to the nurse she attempted to call Maria first. But since we all know that Maria doesn't believe in setting up her voicemail how could she get the message. Then again, now that I think about it the first time the nurse called about the stomach ache she left a message on the home phone first, then called me...

Now I have to say that the nurse made it sound like a lot more than a scrape. When she described the incident in question I had visions of the skin peeled back from the fingernail to the knuckle. You know, white bone shining, ligaments twisting like a robotic finger. She then assured me that he was fine, back in class and just wanted us to know so we didn't freak out when he came home from school today.

Okay then... If the bone isn't broken or showing, or the child isn't bleeding to death, wouldn't a simple note suffice? He is a boy by all rights, these things do happen. In fact as I understood the entire thing he wasn't crying or asking for his mama, not once.