Mom’s solution to work-day interruption risk goes viral

Call it a sign of the times: A telecommuting mom cooped up with her children tacked up a hand-scribbled memo on her home office door that has the Internet in chuckles. 

The memo, posted on social website Reddit, explains: “Mum is in a meeting. Do not enter!” It includes office hours of “9:30 to 11.” It goes on to solve the latest crisis with: “The answer to your question might be here” and offers suggestions including  “upstairs,” “in the wash,” “I don’t know what’s for dinner,” “No,” “in your bedroom” and “piece of fruit.”    

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Reddit comments, more than 600 as of Thursday morning, included: “Covers about 95% of the questions to be honest”; “Stealing it! Might add answers such as: absolutely not, in the fridge, and hit him back but harder”; and “I have two kids, 6 and 8. If you add ‘I don’t care who hit who first’ and ‘write it on the shopping list,’ you’ve got me covered.”