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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a source of stress with DW and me....I work in a site where cell phones are prohibited.  I work at two desks, and I do not know which cubicle I will be in from one minute to the next; things happen.  My wife has a problem when she can not reach me, but I at times I can not be reached.

And one time, I was actually briefing the POTUS.[/quote]

Honey is that you?  Seriously, DH and I had to work something out for two basic scenarios 1) when I was pregnant it was unacceptable that I wouldn't have a way for him to be reached.  He either needed a pager, or I needed the number of two people that could find him/page him at work to let him know 2) it isnt fair for me to get all the leave work/need to pick up sick child within an hour phone calls - in one case it happened right when he should have been leaving work versus me having to leave before a meeting I was running about 2 hours before the end of my day.

I'm still the first line of defense with most of the daycare/school calls because I can have a cell phone with me at work and he cannot.  He also has one of the old school phones that doesn't show a message unless you pick up the phone so voicemail tends to be worthless. If I can't reach him and have to leave early for sick kid(s), early snow closure etc, he has to pick up the slack the next day so I can makeup the time.  He also tries to let me know if he will be offsite/unreachable for the day so I'm not wasting my time trying to reach him.

So in the two examples from OP, he would have had to drop off and pickup the next day for not letting me know where the car was and realized that we had to pay a late fee, made someone at the daycare work overtime, and could get out kid kicked out for not being there on time if that happens too frequently.  for the one with the food, that was your responsibility that you forgot and while it would have been nice since he was five minute away to help out that's one of those things you try to reach him once and if you can't you suck it up and head back.[/quote]

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