What If?

I walked into the daycare today to find the teacher icing a scrape on Troy’s hand, asking the other teacher if he needed to write up the incident. Since I was there, he simply told me about it instead. I asked when it had happened, and I was told just three minutes before.

Three minutes before, I was sitting in the parking lot of the daycare talking to my mom on the phone. I began to wonder if I had wrapped up that call with her a few minutes earlier, if I could have prevented Troy from getting hurt at all. I know it wasn’t my fault that he had gotten hurt, but it seemed like a Sliding Doors kind of situation. Could I have prevented it, if I had made a different decision?