Petara's Prerogative

In high school, we did clinical rotations at the hospital.  One morning, I didn't feel like going, so I planned to stay home until that class was over and have my college boyfriend pick me up on his way to school and drop me off.  I called his house to ask for a ride, but his dad answered the phone.  I told his dad I would call back.  His dad told him that I called.  He called me back and my mom answered.  Of course, she thought I was trying to skip school.  I tried to tell her that I just missed first period and was going to my other classes.  She made me stay home and clean out my windows and then drive her around, since her foot was in a brace.  I wasted a good outfit and hairstyle that day.  I made sure I never missed another clinical rotation.

In elementary, we would count our laps using popsicle sticks.  I would usually lie and add a lap or two, so I wouldn't look like too much of a slacker.

My brother got to bring a hamster home when he was in kindergarten.  My mom told him that he could not let it out the cage.  Of course, he took it out as soon as she left the room.  My mom got mad when she found out it was loose and threatened to beat us for letting it out.  I was not involved, so I was mad.  My mom was talking a lot of mess for a person that would not leave the sofa because she was scared.  I found the hamster within a few minutes, but didn't report the news to her for a while.  I wanted to make her sweat.

When we were kids, my brother and I decided to have a snowball fight, even though he could not find his gloves.  Within minutes, my brother was on the ground crying that he had frostbite and was going to lose all his fingers.  Of course, he also threw in he would make sure our parents knew it was my fault.  That pissed me off, so I went along with the frostbite and losing fingers idea for a while until it was almost time for my parents to come home.  It was mean, but I got tired of him always trying to lie on me.

I love watching nostalgic cartoons.  Sometimes, I get mad at my kids because they don't want to watch Saturday morning cartoons.  I must admit, a lot of their cartoons do suck nowadays.  This is why I stream or purchase the ones I grew up on.

I read books to my kids every night, but it takes me months to finish my own books.

I never have dinner ready when I tell my guests to arrive.  I need to start making appetizers for them to nibble on.  That would be the right thing to do.