6-8 Inches of Snow

On Wednesday morning I had an email from a mother that her student “was upset this morning before leaving for school. She said that you said yesterday we were supposed to have 6-8 inches of snow this morning. I tried to assure her that she had misunderstood something. She was insistent she had heard correctly. Do you know anything about this?”

I very quickly and rather profusely apologized and said I would be more careful about my sense of humor in the classroom.

She replied, “I knew there had to be something logical behind it! She takes things so literal! … This happens EVERY day in our home about someone or something–the other day my husband said ‘it might rain today.’ Ha! Need I say more!”