You can’t choose your family, which is sometimes good and sometimes bad. Because of this, we have to be ready for both nice and not-so-nice surprises in life.

You can’t choose your family, which is sometimes good and sometimes bad. Because of this, we have to be ready for both nice and not-so-nice surprises in life.
The Story:

My husband and I have our phones on silent until at least 10 a.m. on weekends. So, we’re sleeping. Suddenly, I wake up to the sound of my husband pulling on shorts and a T-shirt. Immediately, the intercom rings. I ask him, “Who is it?” He replies, “Police.”

It turns out that my mom sent me a screenshot of the water meter in messenger at 7 or 8 a.m. And 2 ticks didn’t appear. She started calling me at 8 a.m., but my phone died overnight. She called my husband, and his phone was on silent.

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He read her message that he had to open the door to the police because they were helping to search her missing child only at 10 a.m. To say I was angry is an understatement. We are 37 years old.

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