Apology accepted
Daniel has been taking piano lessons for the past year. The other day, we were running late as usual. After all the rushing about trying to get there on time, we managed to make it. As I was sitting outside waiting for Daniel to get done with his lesson, a lady walked by me and said, " I'm sorry but we had a parent teacher conference with the piano teacher and we took an extra 3 minutes ." The reason she was apologizing was because they took time from what was supposed to be part of Daniel's piano lesson. I told her that it was totally fine. Before she walked away, she told me, " Next time, try to be 5 minutes early. " I was somewhat taken aback that her apology sounded more like a reprimand rather than an apology. It wasn’t a big deal that they took 3 minutes of our time. It would have been better on her part to not say anything rather than a feeble apology. This got me thinking about apologies, and how it is so hard to apologize. Someti