I should have known to pay more attention to this show! Surely something that mirrored most of the soap operas I watched with my mom and aunt during the day had to be filled with all sorts of "adult stuff" a child shouldn't watch considering the fact that most networks refused to air it before 11p.m.
As hard as I tried to figure out Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman...I was just too young to know what the hell was going.
Guess that's why my mom allowed me to watch it with her. It's was all WAY over my head with the exception of one thing.
I do remember that no matter what news Mary received...good, bad, disastrous or catastrophic...she never missed a beat at completing whatever job she was engulfed in....preparing dinner, scrubbing the kitchen floor or staring blankly into space.
She coped or failed to cope by pretending there were no problems. If she could be a good enough wife, mother, cook, friend....all would eventually be well in the world.
Well, unfortunately things just don't work out that way.
You've got to face your issues and problems head on which is why I'm so miffed today.
Recently I agreed to change my work schedule with a fellow coworker. We discussed what the changes would be and sealed the deal with an informal "okay, sound good?...Yep, sounds great to me". End of story, right? Wrong. So, very wrong!
The first day the changes were to occur my coworker called in sick. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad except for the fact that this was originally a day I was scheduled to work!
Of course, I had no way of knowing this would happen. But it still makes me feel like a douchebag for allowing the coworker to put the staff I work with in a bad situation.
I don't care if I'd severed my big toe in a freak gardening accident....I would have hobbled to work had the shoe been on the other foot (pun intended).
And I know what some of you might be thinking....maybe the
With advanced notice I might have been able to cover the shift for her and everyone would have been happy.
As it is at the moment, we'll probably end up having to work the schedule neither of us wanted to work.
People...I swear....UGH!!!!!
