office gossip

apparently monday somebody hit the car of one of the teacher assistants at the school. the assistant didn't know who had hit her car (no note was left) and the damage must have been significant, because she called the police about it.

but today, in walks a police officer to the office asking for the assistant who had filed the report. he told her that, normally you have 72 hours to file a police report. to which she replied that oh, i found out who it was, they confessed that they did it.

IT WAS ONE OF THE TEACHERS!

ok, dumb factor on both sides:

1. the assistant - should she not have asked around school about if anyone knew anything or if anyone had by accident bumped her car in the morning before filing the police report? (i'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt on this one - maybe the damage was significant and she was parked in a location that cars pass so it could have been someone who parked or someone who was dropping off a child)

2. the teacher - she either didn't notice that she had hit someone's car (but if it was damaged enough to warrant a police report one would think she must have noticed), or she was aware and didn't leave a note because she thought she could get away with it (or we could give her the benefit of the doubt and suppose she didn't have any note-writing materials in her car and that she planned on making an announcement to the school about it later in the day a la "would the owner of an x car with license plate y please contact the office" and she forgot about it).

i'll take note of how the story unfolds...