A Funny Story

We heard from the Principal yesterday that a colleague's father had passed away, and she would probably be away from school for some time.

This morning on the staffroom whiteboard read the happy news "X's Dad is fine...it was her cat that died".

Apparently X had been so upset delivering the news that the DP in charge of relief had heard "Dad" instead of "cat".

Several colleagues spent fruitless hours scanning the Death Notices of the Herald.

X's HoD had rung her on Wed night to commiserate, and had been told by X, "It's all right. We ended up burying him in the front garden"....

Alarm bells began to ring....

Sad about the cat, of course, but relieved to hear Dad is still alive and kicking, and no further leave was required...