Corwin is infamous in our family for being thin skinned about being bothered by his siblings. When it’s something like singing about Mara and him getting married I can understand. But he’s overly sensitive to chewing sounds and even just off tune singing while we’re traveling in the van. I try to tell Corwin to just not notice but he seems incapable of not being distracted.
On the other hand, Corwin is also famous for being oblivious to situations such as cars in a parking lot. Today was another incident in that vein. Around noon we got a frantic call from the orchestra director at Corwin’s school asking “did Corwin come to school today?”. Having sent him out to the bus in the morning, we had presumed he had but became concerned that he had a mishap enroute. The director said that they were leaving to go on a field trip to play elsewhere but couldn’t find Corwin in the rehearsal room, the lunch room, or his normal classroom for that period. I told the director that, as far we knew, Corwin should be at school.
We got a call back later saying that yes indeed, Corwin was at school. His class had apparently been relocated (I didn’t get a clear reason for that), Corwin had forgotten the field trip (despite the morning panic of getting the right clothes to be ready for it), and had missed the all school announcement to gather for departure.
Yet he can tell if Alice is chewing a little bit too loud.
