After My Daughter's Student Card Failed, Chaos Hit
Marlene Cole, who has always been a reliable nanny, has called me three times in a row out of panic today.
"I got bad news for you, Mr. Spence! The security guard of the kindergarten refuses to let Erin into the kindergarten!
"He claims that the name on the student ID is wrong! The ID belongs to a little girl named Jodie! It's not Erin's ID at all!"
I look up from the spreadsheet I'm holding, a frown already gracing my features.
"Marlene, wasn't Harper the one who gave you the ID last night?"
Marlene sounds like she's about to burst into tears from panic.
"She did! But the scanner shows that Jodie Holmes is the ID owner! The security guard says that we've gotten the wrong ID, so now he's interrogating me!"
That's odd.
Half a year ago, I've pulled a few strings just so I can enroll my daughter, Erin Spence, into Starry Kindergarten, known as the most prestigious kindergarten in the city. In fact, I have to sponsor the kindergarten 300 thousand dollars in order to secure a slot for Erin.
Over the month, my wife, Harper Gilmore, has always been the one driving Erin to school every day. Today, Harper claims that she can't take Erin to school because she needs to pull overtime shifts at her company, so she has instructed Marlene to do so.
But how is it possible that Erin's student ID now shows another name when it's Marlene's turn to take her to the kindergarten?