What NOW?

An email:

S, J, C & Maggie,

Lets plan on talking this weekend.

Love L & D

So I ask you, now what? Do we have to plan to talk, really - is that how we are now? I am not in the mood, so there.

Last I talked to L I was so angry that I may have been foaming at the mouth. The quick run down, Joe is going back to school at the end of the month (Yeah for him) and she wanted to know what would happen if he failed, what will he do if he gets busy at work, what will happen if he doesn't pass a test, who is going to help him with his papers, blah blah blah. My answer to everything, "S is a really smart guy, he can take care of himself and will be fine". Then L starts carrying on about being a bad mother and needing more faith in her son.

I can't take it, it is an emotional roller coaster I do not wish to ride. It is ridiculous. The man is 32 years old. He runs three major government production programs in three different states and works in a fourth. He remembers every darn history and baseball fact he has ever heard, read or seen and can cross-reference and draw congruences between them all. The guy is smart. And yes, you should have more faith in him.

Granted he does drive like a moron and leave the toilet seat up. So unless they are teaching toilet etiquette in college, the man will do great. And what is all this talk about who will help him? Certainly she was fishing for the "Oh I will help out." Noooooo. He is a big boy who can take care of himself. I graduated; REMEMBER! Joe proof read maybe four papers for me in the eight years I went to school. Why? Because I am a grown up!

Lets plan on talking this weekend ... great.