I hear David Bowie’s Modern Love (Modern Love) buzzing in the background. The rush to make it anywhere on time is at a fever pitch these days it seems and the holiday season is just around the corner. Are you racing to get somewhere, to get something, meet a deadline? How fast can you go? Is this just a function of parenting in the fast lane or is there greater evil in the midst. Multitasking is an art, and we’re not always artists.
Coffee cup stays full and warm for most of the morning. Making sure the kids are on track with the morning routine, which they have done for close to a decade now. They seem to have it figured out some of the time while other times they wait to get some “verbal assistance” with clock management (I’m still not sure they brushed their teeth today). This tight level of management is meant to help them be better in the long run but is taxing in the moment. The margin for error of an accident (spilled coffee, tantrum, can’t find the keys) is very slim when pinned against the clock. And the two year old, she’s needs to get to daycare before the kids get dropped off for school, lunches packed, another cup of coffee, did I fill the car up with gas?
How about the service counters? Either at a restaurant drive through or any ordinary every day transaction – be ready. Higher level service businesses realize the pressure put on us to get to the finish each day so they will more than likely help make you feel at ease. However, if you’re not being catered to on this front be ready for the hurry up and wait routine at the drive through, get your payment ready to keep the line moving behind you (don’t be that person), exchange the pleasantry’s, and be off with yourself.
So, when we see you fly in at the last minute for your lesson know you’re in good company, we get it.
That’s perfect! I was THAT person yesterday at Walgreens picking up a prescription….and I couldn’t find one of the five kid’s health insurance cards! I was frantically culling through old business cards, hair appt reminder cards, orthodontist reminder cards….and various receipts as 4 customers lined up behind me. Thankfully the clerk was perceptive and immediately called her co worker over to open another register and calmly kept smiling at me saying, “we’ll get it figured out”! What I had thought would be a two minute pick up turned into a 20 minute stop! Arghhh….and my cell phone ringing with Jon saying..”honey the kids are starving HURRY UP and get home!” I hit every red light there was between Walgreens and home! Hurry UP!