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Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.
O.K...I've never actually done a real Not Me! Monday post...but I've been saving this one up for a long time. And, in celebration of Stellan's wonderful recent reunion with his sweet MckFamily, I thought I'd join the party. WARNING: After reading this, your opinion of me may be forever changed. But, humility is always a good thing...and laughter is a close second! So, here goes...
This winter, I was NOT with my teenage son running errands, while driving my husband's truck. I am NOT uncomfortable driving his truck. I feel completely confident and at ease. Especially when it begins to snow large snowflakes, and the traffic increases. I really LOVE that...I do NOT get incredibly stressed in that situation.
We did NOT go through the drive-through at McDonald's. And, we did NOT notice when we arrived at the Wal-Mart parking lot that my son's french fries were missing from his order. I did NOT tell him to "Just deal without the fries because I didn't want to drive through the snow and ridiculous traffic." No...I love to drive my husband's truck, through the snow, and the heavy traffic. Love it.
I did NOT give in because he thought he was starving and couldn't live without his fries. I also did NOT grumble with him about it. He did NOT begin arguing with me in the process...and I certainly wasn't sucked into arguing with my teenage son. That never happens.
I did NOT pull into the drive-thru lane in a huff and pull up to the window asking politely (I really was polite...no need for rudeness!) for our missing fries. The person at the window did NOT look a little perplexed and frightened.
He did NOT ask, "When did you come through the drive-thru, ma'am?" (Perhaps it should of occurred to me that this wasn't the person who originally took my order. It really did not! No...really.)
He did NOT continue to look confused as he asked me to pull ahead. I did NOT continue the argument with my son as we waited. When the gentleman came to my window with our fries, he looked in my car and did NOT say, "Ma'am, you have a McDonald's bag in your car."
"Yes", I did NOT reply.
He did NOT hold up the bag containing our fries, and say...
"Ma'am, this is Wendy's."
I did NOT apologize profusely and then begin to laugh so hard I cried. My son did NOT shake his head and roll his eyes. And the Wendy's worker did NOT fail to see the humor in the situation. He did NOT just give me a curt nod and walk away. We did NOT proceed to McDonald's to retrieve our missing fries, while still laughing hysterically, and wondering at my level of competence. I did NOT wonder for days afterward if I should even leave my house...because of my ridiculous tendency to be easily distracted! Not me...no way!
14 comments:
Oh my goodness, HYSTERICAL!!! ROTFL! :-) You saved a really good one for your first Not Me! post!
That's just....priceless. lol
How funny! At least you an laugh at yourself. It's a good way to create memorable moments with your teenager. :o)
That is hilarious!!!! I am dying laughing right now! I guarantee you that will be a memory that will be told year after year after year and I bet you'll laugh every time too! Ha!!
That is too funny! Thanks so much for sharing it with us!
Blessings!
Ok, my first thought was "Well, at least you are arguing with your teenager instead of a 3 yr old" That does NOT happen in my house...Nope...NEVER! :::sigh::: But it was too funny! Thanks for the comment!
I did NOT laugh again at that story!! I had NOT heard about it from Chris when it first happened. At least you see the humor in the situation. I NEVER do anything like that myself...
Mary
**howling** That was priceless!! Right up there with MckMama's two "confessions" from today.
I love laughter... thanks for providing it today!
awesome!! thanks for sharing that! you inspired me to finish my first NOT ME MONDAY which I had been working on earlier and had quit--its fun to do and really does humble us all!!! :) thank you for sharing laughter!
Ok that was funny. I can see that happening to me now that Kirk's gone. Today was my first day back to work since he left. I'm just glad I remembered everything. Ok well not everything Elijah did forget his snack but I went back home and retrieved him one. When I went back into the daycare center to give it to him. Mason's classroom was moving for the drop off room to their room. Yea that went over well. My lil' one year running to me like that was quick thank god your here - but oh no Mom had to leave again...
If that were me at McDonald's I would have just asked you if you wanted some fries and would have ran in and got you some! I probably would have brought out a shake and when I would go to hand it to ya I would have said and here's a frosty to make your day!
Oh deary me that was hysterical!! Now I only WISH I was still wearing Stellan's diaper!!!
I have only recently started reading your blog but have missed quite a few days. This one had me laughing - out loud! I haven't felt like doing that in days! So thanks for that! Not to mention that I saw myself doing those same things and then wondering about my sanity as a result!
Sounds just like what I would do. I can really relate to that kind of thing. Funny!
Rosie @ Home and Heartwork
That's hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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