Oh boy; after smugly writing about suspending my son's driving privileges today, well yesterday considering the hour, I got ticketed too. And on the same road as him, just in a different state. So Stupid.I guess I should suspend my own driving privileges but of course I won't - read admission of hypocrisy and over weighted self-importance.
Maybe I can rationalize....
I was returning from a MISERABLE weekend with my step mother who I'm sure is clinically and situationally and probably seasonally depressed and my father who has advanced Parkinson's and I slept in their TORTURE bed, or rather did NOT sleep but lay for hours on end on the 30-year-old mattress.
I know it doesn't make sense. That's why it’s called rationalizing, not rational.
I'm so happy to be home. I stopped at a toy store and bought the boy a Slinky. That doesn't make any sense either but it made him happy and I guess I needed to do that without backing down on his life lesson because of my own guilt.