While at work today I received a call about two kids who had runaway from a secure facility. “Do you have a description of the kids?” a reporter asked me. “We can’t share a description because they are minors,” I replied. “So who should people call if they see them?” “How will they know they saw them if they don’t know what they look like?” I asked and the description discussion came to a close.
Later, while at a ‘last hoorah’ for Sleepless and Ice Cream Man, Sleepless and I were chatting with several people we didn’t know. Many looked familiar to her, and they were there to celebrate the upcoming wedding, so she would ask, “Will you be at the wedding tomorrow?” “We weren’t invited,” was the response on more than one occasion. “I really think you should stop asking that question. Just thank them for celebrating with you,” I advised. “Good idea. I can’t believe this,” she replied.
A few minutes later, a former colleague of hers stopped by and bought us drinks in celebration of the big day. She didn’t ask him if he was coming to the wedding for two reasons. 1) She didn’t invite him, and 2) Our previous discussion. As he was celebrating with us, he told Sleepless he was pretty sure his friend went to college with Ice Cream Man’s sister, “She told me ‘He looks like a girl I know.'” “Wow,” Sleepless replied. That is a ‘minor’ detail we can and will share.