Monday, 22. June 2015
Social calls
ell, 19:32h
About an hour ago my Admiral, aka Mum, called and said she needed to talk to me. She was already in town and would drop by later, she wouldn't tell me on the phone why. And since then it occurred to me that she had already called on Saturday, although she had right well known that I had to work and wouldn't come home on the weekend. And after I had told her my shift-times she had waited until she knew I'd be home, to call again.
But that makes me wonder: What is so urgent it can't wait until I come home next weekend, but that it could wait three days and has to be discussed in person?
Usually, when I was little and she said, we needed to talk, it meant that I was in trouble. Most of the time in big trouble. However I think I am old enough to decide what to do and what not, besides I'm not even living at home anymore and I can't think of anything that I might have done that would merit a personal visit (it is 50 km from home to here after all).
And then the usual things come to my mind: Someone died, someone's ill, our house burned down, she crashed her car... But wait, then she wouldn't be able to come here. Also she could have told me all of that on the phone.
The only other thing I an think of, is that she broke up with her Companion, but that's kind of ridiculous. It wouldn't concern me that much, and I'm not exactly the person to go to for that. Plus if she really would be in the weepy mood some are after something like that, she'd either cried at me on the phone, or, if she really needed to, would have come to me right away and not gone to town first. Apart from that she's not that kind of person.
At least she gave me the time to clean up a little, and so I spend the last hour washing dishes and contemplating about what might be so very important. Now I'm done with that and still have an hour until she'll show up, to contemplate what franchise I could drown myself in should it be bad news. And try not to be thinking about the fact that I still have to write that essay, which now I can't concentrate on at all.
But that makes me wonder: What is so urgent it can't wait until I come home next weekend, but that it could wait three days and has to be discussed in person?
Usually, when I was little and she said, we needed to talk, it meant that I was in trouble. Most of the time in big trouble. However I think I am old enough to decide what to do and what not, besides I'm not even living at home anymore and I can't think of anything that I might have done that would merit a personal visit (it is 50 km from home to here after all).
And then the usual things come to my mind: Someone died, someone's ill, our house burned down, she crashed her car... But wait, then she wouldn't be able to come here. Also she could have told me all of that on the phone.
The only other thing I an think of, is that she broke up with her Companion, but that's kind of ridiculous. It wouldn't concern me that much, and I'm not exactly the person to go to for that. Plus if she really would be in the weepy mood some are after something like that, she'd either cried at me on the phone, or, if she really needed to, would have come to me right away and not gone to town first. Apart from that she's not that kind of person.
At least she gave me the time to clean up a little, and so I spend the last hour washing dishes and contemplating about what might be so very important. Now I'm done with that and still have an hour until she'll show up, to contemplate what franchise I could drown myself in should it be bad news. And try not to be thinking about the fact that I still have to write that essay, which now I can't concentrate on at all.
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quadrotriticale,
Tue 2015-06-23 01:02
A wise friend of mine once told me that an essay is basically the same sentence expressed in as many different ways as you can manage to think of. Maybe that's at least a little help ♥
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ell,
Thu 2015-06-25 16:23
I already know roughly what to write, I just can't get myself to really think about it. But I'll remember that ^^
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