We are thinking of putting Mom in a retirement home.
On Wednesday, she took Alice to her dance lesson / wart removal appointment, apparently without further incident. But shortly after they arrived back at the house we received a call from the dance studio. I figured it was to be a discussion of the cost of cleaning up Alice fluids from the practice room floor but it was actually that the staff had found Mom’s purse which she had left behind. One screaming, blood dripping child in the middle of a public place shouldn’t make you forget your purse1.
Today Mom had a business meeting up in Chicago and was due back around 5 PM. Around 4 PM or so I get a call from her in which she informs me she had driven off from a rest stop with her purse on top of the car and was going back to look for it. About 10-15 minutes later I get a call from a stranger who had found Mom’s purse. I gave him her cell phone number. I then got a call from Mom who excitedly told me that someone had found her purse. In the end Mom was mosty rescued by the kindness of strangers, as she did find some debris that had spilled from the purse on impact and might have found the purse anyway. Or maybe not.
We’ll just see if she still has her purse at the end of tomorrow.
1 The smarter set wears a vest which is much harder to forget. especially if you load it up with 5-10 pounds of vital necessities.