On a road trip for work today, in a different city.
And I have a question.
Is it wrong to feel slightly offended when your ability to successfully utilize instructions to the coffee shop fails and you are forced to return to the Giver Of Instructions for a second attempt?
And prior to elaborating on the instructions, the Giver Of Instructions ever-so-slightly scolds you for not being able to follow such a simple set of directions?
As if she were gently — oh, so gently — rubbing your nose in the poop you left on her nice clean floor?
And once the Giver Of Instructions begins to break the instructions down further — using one syllable words, expansive gestures, and a whole lot of volume (like a tourist in a foreign land) — I realise something?
That when she said “Go down the stairs and there you are”, she didn’t actually mean “Go down the stairs and there you are!“?
Instead, she honestly believed that it shoul...
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eyes drying outFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-21 23:15:23
We’ve been travelling now for 15 hours. Three airports, seven security checks, six glasses of water, and 4 time zones.
We haven’t even hit the halfway point.
And My Lovely Wife just stuck her tongue out at me.
Malaysia, here we come!
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more brushing off the cobwebsFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-07 11:55:09
[Lurches into frame. Bangs shin on misplaced ottoman. Rubs sleepy bugs out of eyes.]
*Cough*
Uh.
Hey.
How you doing?
Me? Where have I been? How dare I? What gives me the right? Who do I think I am? After not a word not a peep for weeks and you’re worried worried sick that I’ve fallen in a ditch somewhere and there I am lying in the rain with ditch water rising slowly around me bleeding profusely (are my tetanus shots even up-to-date?) and with nary a cookie in sig...
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