Grinch

Today was a day…..

I went to the post office to mail a package that my son asked me to. I was called up from the line in which I was standing to be helped…immediately after that…he began to help the person next to him.

I’ve been to this certain postal place almost weekly for years…they all know me…but for whatever reason this particular person today acts as if I’ve never darkened the doors. Takes forever to wait on me…and then hours later I get an email where he forgot important information. I was that little of importance to him.

I then return to the orthodontist to pick up my teen. I wait in the parking lot…as most parents do…because she’s a teen and will be driving soon. The tech comes out (who must have been a hall monitor) and basically is wanting me to be outraged at my daughter for breaking several brackets. When it seems my only concern is that they be fixed she starts to act like my daughter is lying about what she’s eating…since these are the first brackets she’s ever broken I’m not really upset…but this is not enough for this tech. She goes on and on about the list of foods she can’t have…when I tell her we don’t eat popcorn or skittles or these things she insists that my daughter is eating something she should not. When I still seem unphased (because at this point I’m wonder why we are discussing it when all she needed to do was fix it… she then tells me how much it will be to fix broken brackets…and tells me I can make payments since it’s the holidays. What???? Do I look like I can’t afford to pay my bills. This is my third child in braces…which means I’ve given this orthodontist over $15,000 and this tech is acting like I can’t afford this tiny bill? She then goes on to basically say that I should have known my daughter broke her brackets. First of all, what would it matter if she did…it takes two months to get Into the orthodontist anyway…second. My daughter is 15…haven’t checked her teeth since she was 12…and she was just at the dentist and they said nothing about it at all…

I then called the office. Yelled at the poor receptionist…who promised to take care of it and that my daughter nor myself will never have to deal with this person again…

I then went back to my store…and proceeded to have a continuously bad day….but then I had a party…and yes…more things went wrong…but then my husband came down dressed like this….