Manufacture some indignation

It's Monday.  The Monday evening schedule looked like this:

Allison - Monkey Joe's 4:30-6:00
Jacob - Baseball 5:30-7:30
Jamie - Give Final Exam 7:00-9:00
Brian - Chicago

So my plan was to drop Allison off at Monkey Joe's.  Go home and get Jacob.  Take him to baseball.  Leave baseball to pick Allison up.  Take her back to baseball game where we would meet a very kindly babysitter with a driver's license.  Then leave them all at the game to go give my final and have the babysitter take them home.

This plan was derailed (as all good plans are) by the weather.  It rained.  From about 2:30pm onward.  I kept checking the e-mail SO SURE that the game would be cancelled.  No luck.  So I went through steps above all the way until I dropped Jacob off in the rain at the baseball game where there was no other team present.

Yeah, I'm thinking "they are so not having a game."  However, here's the conundrum.... if I leave to go get Allison and they call the game - I'm 15 minutes away with Jacob at the wet ball field by himself.  If I stay until they call the game - I'm late picking Allison up and then subsequently late to meet the babysitter and late to my final.  I should mention - too - that Monkey Joe's is about as far across town as you can get from our house and still be in Appleton.

So..... I found Jacob a ride home in the event of a cancellation - but not to our home because no one was there.  By the time I picked up Allison - started to drive back through town - got a txt saying the game was cancelled and picked Jacob up from Harrison's house..... the babysitter was waiting on our doorstep and I turned quickly around to go give my final.

I'm moderately annoyed at the coach who didn't call to check with the other coach that their team would be able to make it IN THE RAIN.  Also.... who plays baseball in the rain?  It's not soccer.

Oh well.  It all worked out in the end.  The Best Laid Plans.....