RE: Relax, calm down22 Jul 2018 17:26
It`s your well earned holiday in Cornwall . You planned it over a year ago . Now you are on your way with your wife two children four and six years old and Snappy the family pet Jack Russell . As you drive your ford car down the M5 from Manchester on Saturday morning , the traffic starts to get very heavy . By 11.00am the traffic has slowed to a 5mph crawl and the outside temperature has soared into the 70`s and is still rising . Your youngest child is the first to ask `Are we nearly there yet?` .Your reply is calm and balanced : `Not yet Muriel`. Ten minutes later and ten yards further on your six year old son , Dick , asks `How much longer?`. Irritated by the traffic delay your response is a somewhat more curt ; `Soon` . Two hours pass , Snappy has been yapping constantly for the last half hour , you`ve just reached Bristol the temperature , well into the 80`s , is beginning to match your own . Suddenly , without warning Muriel is car sick . Unfortunately her vomit is directed toward Dick and over his video game , Dick starts screaming at his sister . Snappy is yapping continuously ~`Can we stop for a bit ? ` ~ `How much longer now?` ~ `I`m hungry` ~ ` I need to go to the toilet` .
`YOU`LL JUST HAVE TO WAIT` .
Your wife calls time on the current nightmare and demands a stop at the next services . A scheduled 15 minute halt turns into a 50 minute delay as a constipated Snappy explores every shrub and tree in the park area , and then , uncontrolled , Snappy attacks an innocent elderly black labrador . While your distressed children look on , an hysterical exchange with the owner causes a further delay . As you get everybody back into the car , you are overcome by an increased sense of urgency and tension .
`Will it be soon now?` , `What time will we get there?` , `How long is another hour or two?`.
As the journey continues your mood turns form impatient , to curt , to grumpy , to brusque , to rude and ultimately downright nasty .
Eventually , you reach your destination . As you , relax , that night in bed you reflect on your impatience and stupidity for making a difficult time for your family even worse , through your thoughtlessness and lack of self control . Questioning your own mood , you come to realise that your expectations are far too high , your hopes and wishes are not the same as those around you . I am an adult , the choices I make are my responsibility . IF only I had relaxed a little perhaps my children would never have witnessed this unpleasant side of my character . My selfishness , my self interest , my intolerance , my lack of judgement , my own childish petulance .
~~~~ Oh Dear :(
How boring it is to read such whinging , moaning , childish , rude , repetitive posts :
He said: ~~ Early July ~~~ Why doesn`t he tell us what`s happening ~~~ He then said Mid July ~~~ He needs to ask the Rom Gov what`s happening ~~~ He never keeps to promised timescales ~~~ He needs to explain the delay ~~~ He moves the goal posts all th
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