If you want a chance to feel superior then read on. While speaking with my wife I happened to hear that one of her colleagues is having a bit of a tough day.
Before I get into that I want to describe my day. This morning my wife Daniela got up and crept out of the apartment so she could go to the hospital on a Saturday morning. About an hour later David and I got up and started our day. We had a long list of things we wanted to accomplish but despite our best intentions we didn’t quite get everything done.
- finish assembling and mounting screen on kitchen window
- pick up shirts from the dry cleaners
- change sheets
- do the laundry including the sheets
- try and not put Daniela’s non-dryer safe clothes into the dryer
- go shopping
- make dinner
- prepare computer so boys and I can play multiplayer games
- get my hair cut
It was a full day and David and I were busy pretty much until Dr. Daniela came home. The food was good the general mood was also pretty good.
In general I think that David and I can be proud of everything we accomplished, and perhaps we can rest a bit on Sunday. But what does this have to do with Diapers and how does this make anyone feel good about ourselves?
Well, Daniela’s colleague is a single mother who also had to work at the hospital today and because of this her ex-husband was baby sitting their daughter. She is three years old and like most children at that age still has diapers. It seems that the last diaper was used so her ex decided he had a few options.
- go to the store and buy diapers
- walk 5 minutes to the hospital and pick up some from his ex wife
- call his ex wife and yell at her about the missing diapers.
So, I think that we can all feel a bit better about ourselves that we solve the “big” problems. If he wasn’t able to go to a store and get diapers what happened to that poor little girl? Well, as luck has it the neighbor has a similar aged child and she did Daniela’s colleague a favor and brought a few diapers over.