I realize that there are parents out there that can readily arrange their work schedules to arrive at an extracurricular event for their child by 4pm on a Friday afternoon.
I get it.
I'm not one of those parents. For me to arrive at said event at 4pm "ready to work", I would need to leave my primary employment at 3pm, go home, change, pick up my child, and then arrive. I realize that I could have used my much-loved PTO time to leave work at 3pm, but with the number of people in my department on vacation this week, that means I would need to ask my counterparts to reschedule meetings (because there is no one to cover for me).
All this so I can SET UP for said extracurricular activity because, despite all the shit we have to sell for the damn thing, our awards event - which by the way, only involves my son helping - is not paid for. So I have to donate food AND set up AND leave work early?
Sorry - pick 2. You get my food and you get my help setting up - WHEN I GET THERE.
The stay at home moms and work from home people can get there at 4pm.
And when I'm courteous enough to tell you I cannot get there until 5pm, please do not return email me with a lecture about getting there as soon as I can.
It's my damn life. It's enough that this is my 2nd Friday in a row I'm sacrificing for this LAST MINUTE - I'll get there when I get there. You don't even want my kid there at 4pm - I guess I'm supposed to get a sitter, too?
Give me a friggin' break.
I had neighbors that moved to Portland, Oregon... they were great friends and great neighbors, but real tree-huggers (as we lovingly referred to them)... they would tell me that there were times that, "Mars is in retrograde," when things were crazy... I DEFINITELY THINK MARS IS IN RETROGRADE this entire month. Don't sweat the small shit - and just SMILE at those people - it really pisses them off!
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