Okay, in fairness the following stream of texts was caused by a glitch in the computer of the parent who sent them from the basement of her work place. Plus, I know for certain that she is not the substance abuse type. Still, it's a colorful moment in the otherwise black-and-white world of math tutoring.
Me: "Is your son coming to today's session?"
Mom: "I.m sorry. He doesn.t"
Mom: "I.m not sure that he didn.t go to"
Mom: "so gone home. Without his phone,"
Mom: "Where ar"
Me: "I'm at the library. I do have a 4pm appt so can't stay late, if he wants to reschedule I'll have Monday openings."
Mom: "If you are open on Monday, why do"
Mom: "am sorry this was mixed up. I do"
Mom: "ger day"
Mom: "Sorry - misread the .couldn.t. st"
Mom: "have made sense. What time Monda"
Mom: "cat"
Although the overall message was abundantly clear, at this point I called her phone and left a voice message, explaining the random-fragment texts, and just to make sure she didn't want me to tutor her cat. Moments after I hung up, the phone buzzed with fresh texts.
Mom: "Sorry AGAIN! My phone (voice) doe"
Mom: "head somewhere else in the"
At this point we spoke by phone, using sane and sober English, and agreed to reschedule for Monday. Her son, not the cat.
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