Lucky

Yesterday was Monday. I worked in the office until a little after 1pm and then went to lunch before working out of the office in the afternoon. I thought I was lucky because I wanted to eat at Paradise Bakery and they are usually very busy. I don't like to wait in line for food. Monday was no exception but without the line. I lucked out and found a place to sit in the crowded dining room next to a couple of young women. I was close enough to hear their conversation and being the nosy bastard that I am I ate my lunch in silence, you know that is hard for me, and listened to their conversation. They were talking about their mothers day weekend and their plans for the summer. One womans side of the conversation went like this. Her husband didn't fire up the pool heater soon enough in the week and the pool was still too cold to swim in when they had their bbq on Saturday. So it was too hot outside. 97, and the pool was too cold. Mothers day was a real hard day for her as well because her mother hates his mother and so they had brunch with his mother and then dinner with hers. The regular baby sitter couldn't make it to watch the kids at dinner and so they hired a substitute baby sitter which her daughter didn't like so they just took the kids to mothers day dinner with her mother and it was a nightmare. The thing that was most upsetting for her is the fact that the nanny that they used last year can't work for them this summer because she has to take care of her sick father instead. She doesn't know what to do, when the kids are out of school for the summer. The husband wants her to keep them at home a couple days a week, but she isn't really up to that so she is looking frantically for a new nanny. They usually take a summer trip without the kids and she is really afraid that they will have to cancel if they can't find a new nanny. I sat there and realized just how lucky I was not to have her difficult life. A trip without the kids. How nice. I usually have to take my kids on trips, My three dogs, they are part of my family and frankly I like taking them with me. I can't imagine feeling the contempt for my dogs that she feels for her kids. She has two of them I think. You will all be proud of me that I didn't say anything to her. I wanted to slap her with a carp. I think she needs to be lucky enough to wake up some morning on the north coast of Japan so she can see how lucky she really is.