Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Miscommunication

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I remember time will I experience miscommunication, one day my grandson called me and told me his mother wanted me to pick him up from school. I tried to explain to him that I have to take my two youngest daughters to work in the morning and drop them off and I will pick him up at 6:30. Later that day his mother called me and ask me what was I coming to night to pick him up but I had to explain to her I told him I was coming in the morning to get him but she told me he said to her I was getting him tonight.

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