Phrasing!
Me: Did you pack your lunch?
Him: Yes.
Me: Are you sure you packed your lunch?
Him: Yes!
The boy got strep throat the other day. It was a comedy of errors.
I’d dropped him off at his summer camp and I just arrived home when I got a call from one of the camp counselors.
Her: Your son said he left his lunch on the bench.
Me: You’re kidding me. (walk over to bench) Jesus Christ…
Her: It’s ok, we can buy him…
Me: (interrupting) No, it’s fine. I’ll come back and bring him his lunch. (hang up) *grumble*
So, off I went again to drop off his lunch.
An hour later I get another call.
Her: Your son said he doesn’t feel well.
Me: You’re kidding me.
Her: He said his head hurts and he has a sore throat.
Me: OK, I can be there at 2PM.
Her: Great. We’ll tell him.
Managed to get a doctor’s appointment that afternoon and we saw the doc less than 30 minutes after I picked him up.
That was a bit of good news/luck in an otherwise unlucky day.
Her: Yup, he’s got strep. It’s pretty common. He’ll be fine after 24 hours but you gotta make sure he continues to take the meds for the full 10 days.
Me: Got it, Doc.
What stinks is that that the very next day, we had three orchestra tix for a show that he was dying to see – and they were ridonk expensive for just an hour show.
Him: I can’t go?!
Me: Sorry, kiddo. We don’t wanna ruin other people’s summer vacation, do we?
Him: (sadly) I guess not.
Me: I’ll make it up to you, kid. Promise.
Then, the Firecracker and I started feeling off so we managed to get a doctor’s appointment for ourselves that same day.
There were two funny things about that doctor’s office – the first is that it was the same office I went to when I got into that scooter accident. They turned me away because I had a head injury.
The second funny thing was that there were pictures of TV and movie doctors everywhere.
Anywho, it turns out that neither of us had staph, we were just being waaay too cautious – I had stayed home with the kid for a couplea days until we got the results back just so as not to get anyone else sick.
After we left the doctor’s office, we walked around looking for my favourite bottle of rum.
The kid’s fine now, and back in camp.
As for me, I’ve been pretty good lately, although both the kid’s and my not feeling well meant that the pad got a little messy.
Her: Logan, can’t you clean up? Go put your nuts against the wall.
Me: (laughing)
Her: Your can of nuts, sitting in the middle of your countertop!
Me: Phrasing, Firecracker, phrasing!
She sent this to me recently on IG. I’m gonna assume that means she wants to keep me around.
Location: The gym, for the first time in days
Mood: headachey
Music: I ruin good things ’cause I feel guilty when I’m happy (Spotify)
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