Nobody in Either Car was Hurt
Because nobody was in either car!
My husband had gone to pick up our daughter Sivakami from school. He was a moment or three late.
Usually, outside the school, there are plenty of people picking up their kids. Like in that picture above? Like that.
There wasn’t a soul outside the school today. The gate was closed.
This was because Sivakami is now in class 11, and the eleventhers are released early. Theirs is a small batch of sixty, made even smaller by practical classes which means only fifteen students are released at a time, thirteen of whom had left.
My husband knows this. He put Sivakami’s new timetable on the fridge! She has been in class 11 since 2 April, and today was the fourth day of school/junior college for her. He shouldn’t have expected the mad rush of the rest of the school’s students being released.
My husband thought that he was so late that Sivakami had been kidnapped from outside the school gate.
He ran from the car to the school gate and banged on it. The security guard waiting on the other side of the gate opened the gate and let our waiting daughter and her classmate out.
Sister doesn’t allow children to wait outside the gate. A parent would bang on the gate. A kidnapper…
