THANK GOD FOR YOUR FAMILY
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If you've forgotten how well off you are to have your
family, read this: 'I'd finally had it. The children were loud, irritable and
impossible. I was tired and fed up. My wife was tired and fed up. So I
decided to run away from it all and have a day just for me; a day in which I
did what I wanted. I was going to live it up and be as greedy as I pleased. I
wasn't going to tend to anybody but myself. 'I zoomed out of the house with
?25. "There, I did it." I said to myself as I drove to the A-road
and headed north. Well, I went to a shopping centre, had a great time in a
bookstore and bought the collected poems of Walt Whitman. Afterwards, I drove
to McDonald's and ordered two hamburgers, my own large fries and my own large
cola. I ate everything without being interrupted, without wiping anyone's
mouth, nose or bottom. Then I ate the biggest chocolate ice cream I could
find. 'I was free! I was out of town! So I drove to the cinema and watched a
film without buying popcorn, without someone sitting on my lap, without
escorting someone to the bathroom. I was a free man. I was living it up - and
I was miserable. 'By the time I returned home, everyone was asleep. As I
slipped into bed my wife whispered, "We missed you." I answered,
"Me too." I never ran away from home again!'
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