What kind of errands....

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What kind of errands....
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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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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 9:35am

No.

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 9:41am
"The enjoyment I get from it is not necessarily in winning, but in the sport itself." You were trying to better yourself, you said so. You're agreeing with her.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 9:49am

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.'

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Registered: 03-27-2000
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 9:51am

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.

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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 9:53am
Gotta wonder whats in that school nurse job description.
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Registered: 03-27-2000
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 9:53am
ITA!
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Registered: 03-27-2000
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 9:55am
So what would have happened to your stepson if you weren't reachable that day either? And if it had been *real* emergency (like an ambulance was taking him to the hospital kind of thing)? Is there someone next on the list?
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 9:59am

No I'm not.


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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 10:01am
You're quite right. Thank you for clearing that up.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 10:06am
You are. You just don't know it, because you don't get what it was she actually said.

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