[Edit: I realize that it is NOT in fact Monday, but Tuesday afternoon. Shit happens. Not that it happens to ME. Just sayin'.]
I’m going to try out a weekly post similar to some my recent “that would suck” posts. I thought about calling it “That Would Suck” Mondays, as I did last week. But it’s a little negative. And I think it’s more fun to whine first, laugh later approach life from a humorous perspective. Plus, I’m super classy. Onwards, dear readers!
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Know what might suck? Travelling via subway and ferry and boat shuttle to the farthest reaches of civilization before land gives way to endless ocean with two kids, only to get caught in one of the hardest downpours you’ve ever experienced? Â And then to discover that sweaters and umbrellas had been forgotten at home and the next ferry back to the mainland doesn’t arrive for a full hour and there’s nowhere sheltered to go. So you have a full hour of hell fun to look forward to, with two cranky and tired and, now, WET children, while standing in the rain. That might suck.Â
And I imagine it would also suck if the four of you got your wet behinds onto a ferry which was happily warm and dry on the inside, but kind of a tight space, with more people crammed in than is normal because of inclement weather. And you started remembering the last time you rode in a boat cabin like this and the seasickness that followed and before long you started to feel fairly nauseous. That moment when your adrenaline starts to pump because you suddenly feel the vomit rising up – that moment, I imagine, sucks. So you might spend the next sixty minutes of what was supposed to be that thirty minute ferry ride staring out the window with deep concentration, so as to keep the seasickness at bay, and the people sitting closest to the window you are staring out of might think you are a sociopath, or at least more invested in their conversation than is polite for a complete stranger. Meanwhile your kids might whine without ceasing and your husband might feel frustrated and the ferry might continue to move at a minnow’s pace because the fog and rain have created weather conditions that are simply unsuitable for traversing the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. So the ferry ride might seem to go on FOREVER and if all these things happened, that would suck.
Not that it’s happened to ME. I’m just sayin’. It would suck.
