"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
05/14/2015 at 12:23 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
05/14/2015 at 12:23 • Filed to: None | 0
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Grind get’s all of the mommy day cards for the kids to give and for himself to give. signed. Scrambling around getting bags packed and last minutes done. Grind goes to work. Grind get’s raked over the coals of schedule changes and brief illness and reduced overnight rests and a bazillion time zones. Decided to get a card and stuff when he gets home the day after. Dont do that.....
While I was gone, there was a knock on the door in the afternoon. My wife works at home. She came running down the stairs thinking I came through and there were flowers and wonderfulness.
Two old ladies stood on the step wanting to tell her about the end of the world. It’s very close you know. They even have a church for that.
I got an earful.
Get shit done early.
> Grindintosecond
05/14/2015 at 12:24 |
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For Sweden
> Grindintosecond
05/14/2015 at 12:30 |
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Fun fact: Many accident investigators carry greeting cards for various holidays in their go-bags just in case this happens.
CalzoneGolem
> Grindintosecond
05/14/2015 at 12:44 |
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My friends just a had a kid a couple months ago. My buddy goes, “Mother’s day is a BS made up holiday holiday and I’m not doing anything.” He was cautioned against this by me and my wife. Buddy’s wife goes, “I just want 3 hot meals and a nap.” What she get? Left home with the baby while he visits his mom. Talk about an earful!
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Grindintosecond
> CalzoneGolem
05/14/2015 at 12:49 |
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oh...I never went that far.
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CalzoneGolem
> Grindintosecond
05/14/2015 at 12:53 |
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Yeah, I was trying to make you feel better. One time I didn’t call my mom on mother’s day because it was finals week and I was cramming months worth of paying attention in class into my head. I still have not lived this down.
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> CalzoneGolem
05/14/2015 at 12:55 |
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The worst part is being caught at being late. I was going to do this. I was late. so now actually doing what I was going to do, which is the only thing I can do, feels so cheap and desparate and crap. We’re good. It’s just a bad season for team Grind. We’ll have to rebuild with some draft picks and strategy changes and perform better next year.
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CalzoneGolem
> Grindintosecond
05/14/2015 at 12:57 |
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I’m pulling for ya! Seems like it might be time to deploy some flowers for no reason in the near future.
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> CalzoneGolem
05/14/2015 at 13:00 |
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Done already. Kids taken to school by me since I’m home and a stop at the sotre on the way home for the flowers, card, a snack, and cat food...becuase the cat needed food.
ttyymmnn
> CalzoneGolem
05/14/2015 at 15:17 |
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That’s a 5-minute major penalty, served by a night on the sofa.
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ttyymmnn
> Grindintosecond
05/14/2015 at 15:21 |
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25 years of marriage taught me that no small token of appreciation goes unappreciated. I bought my wife chocolate-covered strawberries and a bottle of wine. I didn’t want to do flowers, because they are expensive and transitory and annoyingly obligatory, but I went out Saturday night anyway and got some flowers because I know that, no matter what, flowers are a must. It doesn’t matter if MD is a manufactured holiday. Your wife will feel like you aren’t thinking of her, even though you certainly are. You’ll know better next time.
This is a lesson I learned the hard way.
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> ttyymmnn
05/14/2015 at 15:24 |
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is was the anniversary.....two days after MD.
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ttyymmnn
> Grindintosecond
05/14/2015 at 15:26 |
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So you “forgot” your anniversary?
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> ttyymmnn
05/14/2015 at 15:33 |
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i didnt forget it. i was at work over 4 days during it. what i didn’t do was have crap sent to the house on our day and waited to do that when i got home....
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CalzoneGolem
> ttyymmnn
05/14/2015 at 15:34 |
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Just one night?
Trevor Slattery, ACTOR
> ttyymmnn
05/14/2015 at 15:35 |
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My wife and I BOTH forgot our second anniversary. I was at a party with my wife and a neighbor asked when we got married. I responded, “we got married two...years ago...last we, shit!”
So I yell from across the room, “HEY HONEY! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!”
She turns around confused for a second and then mortified, “What? Huh? Holy shit that WAS last week wasn’t it?”
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ttyymmnn
> Trevor Slattery, ACTOR
05/14/2015 at 15:38 |
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Easy to do on the first one, to be sure. The next one? A night in the box.
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ttyymmnn
> Grindintosecond
05/14/2015 at 15:41 |
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I know you didn’t forget it, that’s why I put the word in quotes. However, your wife probably thought you did. Thing is, no amount of rationality about work, busy, etc. can counter the lack of observance of the actual date.
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Trevor Slattery, ACTOR
> ttyymmnn
05/14/2015 at 15:53 |
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The only saving grace was that she obviously had totally forgot as well. Otherwise...yeah. Couch surfing in my own home, for sure bro.
Now birthdays...that is different. My wife considers her birthday a national holiday, to be celebrated with ritual sacrifices, fireworks and a banquet. I forget her birthday, I might as well move out.