People, their reasons and excuses....RANT
I have known my lady friend for over 8 years now. The one thing I can rely on is her EXCUSES (not reasons) for lateness, not showing at all or some other bull snarky. It is always 100% medical related. Be it the one day "flu" going around that I never heard of or she ate some food that made her puke (yea, right).
She is utterly, completely unreliable for anything one should be able to rely on.
It hit home hard about 5 years ago when she PROMISED to stay at my house while I was away on a three day business trip. She was to clean my home, care for the chickens and feed the cats, I was paying her to do it, paying her very, very well. The crux was she was supposed to stay here.
I got home unexpectedly about 5 hours early, my home was not cleaned, she had not been here AT ALL, eggs were butt deep on a 10 foot lumberjack in the chicken nests. My cats were out of food. She showed up 3 hours later having the same medically related excuse she always uses about some lame illness or another.
I could list 50 other times she has pulled this sick crap as an excuse for not being where she said she would be at the time she said she would be there.
I bought the pontoon boat, bought her a fishing pole and closed face fishing reel she likes and planned with her for all week for her to go fishing with me today. She was to arrive at my home at 7:30AM this morning. At 6:30 she texted saying her dog had puked green crap and she was not going to make it fishing. I had a cooler loaded with fresh bait, the boat ready and she pulled this crap for the last time. I even bought a portta-pottie for her to use on the toon.
She is a pretty lady, getting to the "large Marge" size in the past few years. An awesome cook, frugal beyond human understanding and never says swear words (unlike me). But, she is totally, completely unreliable.
What drives me NUTS is I can't stand being late, EVER unless I am in the hospital or dead. She is never, ever on time for anything, EVER. I used to go to her family functions but stopped because nothing was ever on time. If I am told we will eat at 1:30-2:00 I will skip lunch to not spoil the meal. Showing up early to help she still was futzing around with one more dish at 4:00. To hell with that last dish, I wanna EAT. Screw the darn thrice cooked rice with whatever sauce the recipe called for. Put some crap on the table, we will make do.
Now I am getting texts from her about fishing tomorrow! Well I am going fishing come hell, high water or a darn Hurricane. I am going alone, I am alone a lot but NEVER lonely. She can stay home in her poverty and be late for some other function with yet another medical excuse.
How you guys and gals stay married or with a significant other for many years and decades is beyond my understanding; I salute you all that have done it. I can't deal with the BS.
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Now you know why I cooled off our relationship progression 7 years ago. I am happy alone but still care a lot for other people less blessed than myself. I would go out of my way to offer a flight to someone that wanted to fly but had no means to do so. I will invite folks fishing just to make their day a bit brighter.
All I ask is that you show up about the time you are supposed to where you are supposed to show up. If you want to toss a few bucks into the gas tank, no amout too little that is fine, but I would never ask for it and deeply appreciate the help.
Lets go fishing, be here at 7:30 AM and hop in. We will go have a ball, maybe catch fish and enjoy the day. I NEVER drink and drive but if you want to have beer it is fine by me.
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Well one of the ways I stay married is I married a good woman that doesn't do all that nonsense. She's very reliable, never got large marge and is a helluva cook. There's very little drama to deal with at all. I am blessed.
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