OK, I'm once again very highly ticked off. Was supposed to pick up several siblings and their friends and take them home after the movie tonight - Dad woulda, but he's on call, and the beeper doesn't work well that far from his work, so he needed to be close to the phone. All well and good.
The movie ended forty minutes ago. I spent much of that time trying to find them. Finally Bill called and let me know they got a ride with a friend's Mom - who has a big rear wheel drive van and a little baby and shouldn't have to drive the back way out to the house late at night. Meanwhile I've wasted much of MY time trying to find people and I'm het up again.
If they were a few years younger and I was a parent rather than a sibling, I think a paddle would come in handy right about now. Even as it is, I wouldn't mind driving out there with one.
If this was a one time occurrance it'd be one thing, but it isn't.
9,237 posted on
02/25/2004 6:48:27 PM PST by
RosieCotton
(Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
To: RosieCotton
Well then,
next time they'll have to make their own travel arrangements that don't include you since they obviously aren't being very considerate.
They're old enough to know better, Rosie. And you are way too young to have to fret over what your siblings are doing rather than going out and enjoying yourself!
9,238 posted on
02/25/2004 6:54:59 PM PST by
RMDupree
(HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)
To: RosieCotton; All
Hi, all; haven't had much chance to post today, got a little chance to check in now.
Rosie, how old are the siblings doing this? Based on my experience with that type of thing, I'd venture to guess that until they get old enough to have to drive others themselves (or to have to do something similar for others) and know what it's like to be inconvenienced by someone else like that, they won't be able to appreciate what you're doing for them or how it inconveniences you when they do that type of thing. Unfortunately I suspect the only luck you're going to have getting them to improve is if you stop driving them for a while and afterwords start a new policy that every time they do that, you won't drive them.
To: RosieCotton
DO it! Drive out there with a paddle!
I can't stand it when people make me wait and wonder when they had a choice to call.
Did you go see the movie too?
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