Even Professors can get it wrong

Since I had such a hard time with my Africa paper, I went into my professor's office to talk to him about it.

As I walked down the hallway to his office, another professor saw me and said, "Oh, your professor has been waiting for you! You are really late!" I did not know what he was talking about, so I just smiled at him.

When I knocked on the open door of my professor's office, he immediately said, "You're late! I've been waiting for you."

Last week, we signed up for times to meet with him about our senior seminar paper. He thought that time was today.

"I thought we were meeting next week," I said.

"Really? Did I mix up the dates? (He checks his calendar) Oh, I did! I'm sorry. I can't believe I did that. Now I have to make my lecture for class today."

I silently laughed at his absent-mindedness.

We still talked about my Africa paper and had the meeting that was scheduled for next week.