South Dakota

Alec’s office is in South Dakota.

Why?

I have no idea.  We’ve never been there. He is consistent with this answer. It is not in Florida, Virginia, New York or any other state he does know. Nope –it’s South Dakota?!   He often has to go to work there.  His stories are quite elaborate about South Dakota and his business there.

Here is what I know about it.

It’s cold in South Dakota. Very cold. There is an office building at his work but mostly it is buildings that house the construction and emergency vehicles. They dig foundations fairly often and a lot of times there is an emergency which requires the emergency vehicles. I do know that Alec’s paging system is not international because he often pages Leo about the emergency but Leo never calls back. (Nicaragua is pretty far after all). It is usually Ben and Alec that have to solve all the problems in South Dakota. Apparently my son is also a chauvinist because as much as he loves Mya, she is never involved in any construction or emergency response needs. She is usually “busy”.  There are lots of traffic jams in South Dakota… too many vehicles and not enough roads maybe?  Sometimes he has to be on-call at work. He has to go into his office when he gets paged and so he travels to South Dakota to get to his office. Sometimes Doggie has to go into the office with him when he gets paged but blanket doesn’t like it there.

I found out today that Erik had been to visit South Dakota. (This was, in fact, very surprising to Erik!) Alec tells me he will take me there one of these days. He’s pretty busy.

I walked into daycare to pick up Alec the other day and his teacher, Miss Erica, asked if we had been to South Dakota. I just laughed and said “No. I see Alec has told you all about his work huh?”  She was dumbfounded-he had described it in such detail to her that she thought it was someplace he had been.

Some kids have imaginary friends. Our son has an imaginary job.