What kind of errands....
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What kind of errands....
| Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:41pm |
Do you run on a daily basis? Weekly basis? Monthly basis?
I've often heard people say that they need a lot of time during the week to run errands and that those errands would otherwise take up their evenings and weekends if they had to WOH ft. It made me curious because I just don't seem to have many errands to run at all. Are we just lazy :-)?


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No.
It was not. It was code for this vision
"I envision the school nurse calling QM at work, about a puking child. QM tells the nurse that she will call her husband who will go get the child. Much to my chagrin, the SN does not find this annoying. Further to my annoyance neither QM nor her husband have exhibited any degree of panic. Why I have a head full of grey hairs myself to show for my particular personal stress over the very thought of having to ever get a child from school while at work...and here these people aren't even stressing the actuall occurence! How dare they! Really. Parenting is hard hard hard and miserable and stressful not to mention expensive and the sooner people realize that CHILDREN ARE A BURDEN the better. Now I envision DOGMA getting the same call from her HUSBAND's receptionist a few minutes later, while she is at her friends house. Where her husband thought she might be. He got the call from the school at work becaus DOGMA wasn't even at home. The NERVE. How can people continue to maintain that working causes extra problems with puking kid management if SAHMS dare to leave their homes, their phones and go MAKE THEMSELVES UNREACHABLE. DOGMA isn't even showing a single iota of GUILT. I have ulcers from processing guilt just over the very thought of being an UNREACHABLE SAHM. Now I get the call about my PUKING CHILD and DAMN IT, I meet both DOGMA and QM going IN on my way OUT. And do I get a medal, a ribbon, an award, applause, a special thank YOU from anyone for my extra special effort which caused me EXTRA grey HAIRS? No. I do not. In fact the SN had the audacity to respond to the tardy QM and DOGMA no differently than she responded to ME. I know perfectly well that most of the stress I cause myself over my kids is my own doing do to my own - nature - but damn it I can and will blame it on everyone else.'
Does your ex not have a cell phone? He expected you to leave work so you could make the long trek to pick up his child, instead of leaving the golf tournament? That's pretty darn nice of you!
Now I realize most people don't have their cell phone set to ring when they are playing golf, but even my dh keeps his with him and leaves it on vibrate. He also checks it every so often to make sure he doesn't have any messages.
Curious though, do they not have anyone who lives/works in closer proximity to his school? I realize we can't guarantee that even our designated emergency contacts are going to be available or closeby, but I shudder to think if my kid had a "real" emergency and no family or close friend could get to him/her right away, leaving him/her to be alone with people he/she doesn't know to take care of him/her.
No I'm not.
Sue
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