“I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.” Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars IV: A New Hope
One of our closest sets of friends has left us, gone away, abandoned us - for the whole summer. Over coffee Monday night, Jake’s Mom and I had to admit to the ugly reality of our current lives. We really, really miss MT’s Mom, MT’s Dad and their boys and we want them to come home. Now. How can they just go off and enjoy themselves for the whole summer – without us? Sure the sailboat is pretty small so all three families would have to sleep and eat in shifts, plus one family would have to be dragging behind the boat at all times, and add to that the fact that Dad Windu and Jake’s Dad need to work to keep the rest of us in bonbons and soap operas deliciously healthy, vegetable rich meals and classical literature over the summer months, couldn’t they just stay home and melt in the humidity have fun at the water park with us? But nooooo, it’s all “family togetherness” and “memories to last forever” and “enjoying the simple life” for them. Selfish. That’s what I call it. Pure selfishness on their part.
Normally, I would just call up Jake’s Mom and drop lots of hints we’d end up going out to the cottage on The Lake for a week or so but since it was condemned just before the summer season (it was all just a simple misunderstanding between the ground and the septic system, you see) and is now being repaired, that option is out.
