Today, I was ready to disown
Craigley. He went ahead and purchased not one but two $2 freezies on the
playground at pickup. It was a full frontal backstabbing!!
It may appear like I am overreacting or unnecessarily exaggerating;
however, in any battle whether real or imagined, there are the allies and there
are the opponents. One would expect one's own spouse to be an ally and not go
fund the artillery of the enemy.
But then, it was my fault
that Craigley was there at Hans' school in the first place. He got home early
from work and I wondered if he wanted to go with me to pick up Hans and Y's
younger boy, and take them out for ice cream?!
One would think that since we were going out for ice cream anyways, we
would quite naturally stay away from a freezie?! But we are talking about
Craigley here!! This man can't resist buying anything sweet. More than half of
our tiny freezer is filled with boxes of ice cream at any time in any random
month. Given that, I should have warned him about not buying those freezies. It doesn't matter how much I talk about
anything to Craigley, he needs gentle reminders. Luckily, he only purchased
two freezies to start off with and shared one with P's boy who is actually part
of the graduating class and would benefit from that purchase.
And Craigley was
ready to buy a few more, but I ushered him into the school building
and away from the freezie table!
It was a humbling moment for me. I talk about principles and hell freezing over when mine own go dancing with the devil...
Since I recognize my part in
this fiasco, there will never be a story to tell where a couple split up over
the purchasing of a couple of freezies. That would be quite the tale indeed,
but it is not the one for today!
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