I wish I could have just forgotten about Mother's Day this year, but as the saying goes, you don't want to rock the boat when you are sitting in it. So, I called my stepmom. Well, I was GOING to call her sometime in the evening but I ended up needing to call my dad so I just asked him to tell her happy mother's day for me and that I'd be up tomorrow with her card.
"Well why don't you tell her yourself. Hang on.
(pause pause pause)
"Hello..."
"Hi mom, just wanted to tell you Happy Mother's Day. Sorry I can't be up there but I'm at work. I'll be up tomorrow with your card."
"Ok, thank you. It's no big deal anyway, we are just lounging around the house."
(uncomfortable pause)
"So how is the day going?"
"Fine, (insert some psychoticbabble about the flower bed)"
(uncomfortable pause)
"I will have to check them out when I stop up tomorrow."
"(some other stuff about the flowers not being there till Thursday when she gets paid.)"
(longer uncomfortable pause)
"Well, I will let you get back to work, sweetie."
"Ok, bye."
click
Thus ends the heart to heart talk my stepmother and I had about her being the greatest in the whole world and how I'd never want another mother.
Shah right, and monkeys fly out my rear.
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