Oh Em Gee! It is 10:30 PM, we need to be on the road tomorrow morning at 9, in order to arrive in time to throw your stuff in your room and make it to a parents’ meeting at 1:30… and you have just UNPACKED the giant bag you used for semester abroad, which ended in MID MAY. And now you are starting to pack for your senior year. I know you’ll get it all done, but sometimes I am pretty sure your life is one big (that word we aren’t allowed to use here) of us and our ability to not explode as you time everything to get done at the last possible moment.
On the other hand, you DID manage your life perfectly well during semester abroad, and while you tend to slide in at the last possible second, you always ARE on time.
Am I more impressed or irritated? That is the question.
Dear Subaru dealership: did you really think my hot tempered and feisty daughter would not check her dipstick after you set her up for the oil consumption test? Especially since you made a big deal of telling her not to? That was a pretty good clue that you had overfilled it so it would be guaranteed to pass.
Guess what? Her boyfriend changes his own oil. So he was able to drain the oil to the proper level.
Won’t you be surprised when you try to “prove” to her that the car meets the standard!
You know that thing where you want to be able to put the baby down still awake, rather than having to lie down and soothe it to sleep? And how a later than usual nap means a terrible bedtime? I did not anticipate that that phase would last 15 years. At least.
Argh! United, you’re really bad at customer service! Your entertainment system is flaky on 5 hour flight, SFO to HNL. We write to your customer service and you say, whoops! I call and you say you will give us each an e-cert toward future travel. H gets one and I get nothing! :-& :-/ 8-}
Coach - you are total contradiction. And you wonder why your teams keep losing and your players hate you. The fact you can pull the wool over many parent’s eyes is amazing, so clearly you’re not as big an idiot as many of us believe. But you will never be successful and sadly the kids will pay the price for your incompetence.
Rant 1 - OK, Southwest. D calls you because her flight is delayed to switch onto another flight, and your phone person tells her not to worry about it, sorry! She gets to the airport and receives a message that she has indeed been switched to that other flight (first one was further delayed and she would have missed her connection), so now her boarding number is C42. I didn’t think numbers got that low!
Rant 2 - H, stop harping at me for things I have no control over and contributed no wrongness to. Just stop, or I’m going to buy you a teeny, tiny harp to be your teeny, tiny birthday present.
23 hours later, she packed it all, went to bed before 2AM, got up on time, helped load the cars, we left
when we needed to, unpacked with no drama, found time to eat lunch (!) were on time to the parents/coach meeting, and made it back home before it rained.
To the stand on vessel: had you waited a moment before turning and calling us idiots, you would have noticed that we had slowed to allow you to pass safely ahead of us. I guess you needed to show off to your guests.
Ok, so today I get a frantic call from brother that one elder has lost the other AND his car! Where am I and I come downtown and join the search? Of course, we got in the car and made our way through heavy holiday traffic (statehood day). En route, I learn that the other sibs have also been called and joined the search. Car found parked on the street. It’s 101 degrees out and just as we reach downtown, the other elder is found in WalMart, which she called Liberty House, which it was decades ago.
Later today, I visit them and ask them how their day was and she claims she was with spouse the whole day and nothing happened, saw no one and was never lost nor separated. She said she didn’t see any of the folks who found her!?!?!? The other elder just mumbled they had things to do today, that’s why he had to drive and they had to go out. ARGH!
RIP dear MIL. You had the quick peaceful ending you wanted, though it was years after you were ready for it to come. We got your memo, but the stars did not align until now.
Please stop suggesting that my kid do (or refrain from doing) things because you believe colleges will favor or disfavor those things. I’ve already explained to you that her desire is to go to a school that loves her for who she is, not for who she pretended to be. Which is good, because she has zero interest in or ability to successfully pretend to be anything but who she is.
Also, there’s no school that’s going to reject an applicant for having taken AP science classes on the grounds that the school wants to teach science their own way. That school just doesn’t give AP credit, and I’ve also already explained to you that neither kid nor I care one iota about AP credit. Also also, the intro science classes at that school are going to be full of kids who took the AP / IB version already.
So move in day is Wednesday. Thought it would be melancholy. Not so much. Want her to have a great time and get launched in life. But the sour attitude around me and stepmom is getting old. Everyone is trying to give you all that you need. But jeez. You buy a picture frame for your dorm room with your stepmom who helps you find just the right one you wanted. Fill it with pictures that I pick up for you. And you bring it down for me to load in car and you don’t want to show it to us. It’s weird? Then you sigh and get mad. Maybe because it’s 12 pictures of you and your friends. It’s fine. See how dear old dad stack ranks these days. We don’t need to be in your picture frame but good lord how can you be so unhappy around us and then all smiles with others. That’s what is weird Feel bad for your stepmom who has basically raised you since you were 3 and you two are so close. I think it hurt her feelings that nothing in your room has anything to do with your family. It was a different story when you asked her to take you to Newport for lunch and shopping. on Thursday. While I had to work to pay for this all.
