I use two steady baby sitters to pick up my children at nursery school and sit them till I or my husband get home form work.
But at 19:00, I got a call from nursery school that K is not showing up! Fortunately at that time, I was already out of office and on the way to home. I ran and ran from the station to the nursery school, and aplogized profusely to the teacher.
Here in Japan, public nursery school is very severe with the pick up time. Every parents should pick up their children and leave nursery school before fixed time. Usually, the pick up time is settled automatically by adding commuting time to work shift time. No delay will be allowed. To be late for pickig up children is awful disaster, though no explicit penalty exists.
The cause of yesterday's incident was communication failure of my husband. He miss reported the day off of sitter K. Though his fault was obvious, I did not nagged him. He is trying very hard to be good hasband and good father. A miss should not be blamed.