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The thing about caller ID is that it tells you only where a call originates, not what it's about. So when the phone rings and the name of my children's school appears on the handset, I have no choice but to answer it.
Suppose someone is sick? Or hurt? Or in trouble with the assistant principal?
Maybe it isn't a call concerning one of my children, but the child of a family for whom I'm the emergency contact.
I'm compelled to answer the call, but in retrospect, I wish I had let the answering machine take a message the other day. That way I could have avoided this stint as chaperone at the middle school Activity Night.
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