Part 2 in Magazine Man’s story about how his first-grade son got detention for doing the right thing.
“You have reached the Dean of Discipline’s voicemail. Please leave your name and message and he will return your call soon.” Beep. I left a message, but it seemed to me this wasn’t even the guy’s number, just a mailbox in the system. Yep, not a caller, but a stonewaller.
In my line of work, one of the worst parts of writing a story, I think, is not so much reporting or pulling all your information together in a coherent way. It’s the waiting for callbacks. Drives me nuts, because I’m an impatient person who demands immediate gratification. So when I’m reporting a story, I have a nice long call-sheet of potential sources and if I don’t get one, I just call the next person on the sheet. It keeps me busy, although it does sometimes mean that I end up with 20 people calling me back and nowhere near enough space to work them all in. But usually, it means I get just enough people to put a story together.
Problem here was, there was only one source I needed to reach. I had no one else to call.
Or did I? …
Read part 2 of the story at Somewhere on the Masthead.
(If you want to read all 6 parts, you can get links to all the parts at my writing and storytelling blog.)
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