Well I just have to put this down on paper before my head explodes!!!!!
So I am on a WalMart boycott. For the simple reason that most of their staff is rude!!! Off to Target I go!! Woohooo...I have started a new habit of taking my ipod when I go shopping. Keeps me from wanting to scold other peoples children, well I left it in the car.....BIG mistake.
I do my shopping, I find what I went in for and some stuff that I didn't LOL funny how that works out! ha!! Off to check out....and here is where the fun starts..........................There are two ladies in front of me. One of them is obviously upset and had probably been crying. As I get closer I see that she is crying......her husband has just left for Iraq. Oh boy we all know how that hits. As we stand in line, I can over hear the conversation they are having. The lady tells the crying lady....."oh it isn't that bad, Bob goes out of town all the time for business and I do fine!!" HOLD THE PHONE!!! WHAT???? Did she just compare a deployment to a business trip???
Now if you really know me...you know that I am either about to lose my mind or I have already said something. Today she was spared my wrath...........for low and behold the lady behind the register had overheard the conversation as well...................and she says, to the crying lady......"it is hard but you will get through it...with faith, good friends, and a whole lot of wine!" (I thought the wine part was great! LOL)
She turns to the business man's wife and says, "hun do you sleep with the phone under your pillow while he is away? Do you stop breathing when the door bell rings? Do tears come to your eyes when you hear taps or the Star Spangled Banner? That is the difference between your husband's business trip and her husband's deployment." Of course the business man's wife had nothing more to say!!
I was speechless. The words the checkout lady used were so much nicer than what I would have said to the business man's wife. But hey that is just me!!!
So tonight I will open the bottle of wine I have and say a toast...to faith, good friends and to all those strangers and friends that are walking the same mile I am!!!!!!
Love it! I had someone tell me the same thing about her husband being gone on business when Derek was deployed. I just about ripped her tounge out of her mouth!
ReplyDeleteAdrienne, As I sit and read your posts, I can't help but to think that you will have a great book to be published about the time your hubby gets back! I love your style of writing, and will continue to keep up with it as the days progress.
ReplyDeleteI am sure that there will be dark days as well as bright ones as you pass through this period of forced separation. I think that it is actually harder on the wives who remain behind; caring for the children,doing the bills,the housework,and all of those things that normally get shared...
This is our second tour. I decided to do this because there was so much that went on during our first tour that I don't remember. I wanted to keep a memory of what goes on this time. As military families I think we forget how hard it all can be. Sometimes I think the hardest thing to deal with is that often times the families get forgotten about.
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