Middle Boy was supposed to talk to his math teacher today.

The one who called me and told me about the missing assignments.

When he got home he told me he had talked to her and that she told him there weren't any missing.

How is that possible?  She just called me earlier this week.  You haven't made any of them up.

He gave me this big story about how there was an error in her grade book.

I finally had to stop him and say, "I don't trust you are being accurate."

Huge crocodile tears.  He did what I asked him.  He isn't lying.  Why don't I just believe him?  He hasn't lied to me in MONTHS.

Trust...it is killing us right now.