The school holidays are over.
As a kid they seemed to go on for ever but never for long enough. As an adult I hate them twofold.
Firstly because my shop's business includes selling school uniforms, which builds to a peak of frantic stressed parents panicking because the "back to school" day has caught them unaware. Year after year I take a secret smug satisfaction in having sold out of an item that a parent needs "now" because Little Johny/Jane starts school in five minutes and nobody told them what day they started / what uniform they needed / where to get it. Despite 99% of other parents in the school knowing all this, of course it's never their fault. And why they think if they repeat the words "What am I going to do now" over and over again I'll be able to magic one out of thin air I've never understood.
But frantic as it all becomes, it's a necessary part of business. My second, but much bigger "hate" is the fact that my wife works as a teaching assistant. Not only can she spend the beautiful summer days lazing around sunbathing in the garden (well not this year obviously) she gets to have 6 weeks of lie ins. Accustomed as I am to having a nice "wake-me-up" cup of tea brought to me in bed (who are you calling spoilt ?) I spend the summer weeks getting myself up and - shock horror - having to make my own cuppa.
Now it's all over for another year - normality is resumed.
3 comments:
Don't I just know it ;)
Tell her to go and get a proper job like casting rivets in an iron foundry. (winky thingy)
Not sure if I should mention this TGR Worzel but whilst she is off for the summer my wife often takes her grand-daughter to the Hedge End paddling pool. She parks I know not where !
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