Marguerite
Active Member
G'day people.
A busy day today but not too tiring.
Choir performance this morning went off well, despite a couple of mobile phones going off mid-performance (including mine - difficult child 3 had forgotten where I was!).
Then difficult child 3 drove the car (with his Ls on) to my eye doctor appointment. The eye doctor said he could see nothing new; we need ideas on what the white thing is in my eye. I don't think it's a floater. But at least it's not a detaching retina.
Again the eye doctor was efficient and thorough, as well as quick (for an eye doctor). Right next door was difficult child 3's hand therapy appointment, they made his soft wrist splint while we waited. Then it was time to drive back to our district for difficult child 3's drama class.
As we drove away (again, difficult child 3 driving with his Ls prominently displayed) some idiot behind us honked the horn at difficult child 3, who was doing nothing wrong, but waiting for the chance to safely make the turn against the traffic. he got spooked and drove into the path of oncoming traffic, then changed course and went straight to get out of the traffic path, and then nearly drove into someone else (I think our mirrors touched). difficult child 3 tried to pull ovr, but it was "no stopping" all along there, so I got him to turn left. While stopped at the lights waiting to turn left (so e could pull over) the driver of the car we almost hit knocked on the window (which meant he left his car in the traffic lane, behind us). He said something like, "When you do something like that you should pull over and apologise."
I said, "We're trying to, but it's no stopping."
Then the guy began to get offensive and said, "When you're learning to drive, go find a quieter road and stay out of the heavier traffic."
difficult child 3 CAN handle quite heavy traffic, as long as people don't hassle him; this bloke was getting more wound up so when the light turned green I ordered difficult child 3 to make the turn NOW and get away from the creep. We found a couple of back lanes and by the time I had navigated difficult child 3 back to where we were, he had calmed down. And there was no sign of either of the vehicles that hassled him. The rest of the drive (in heavy traffic on major roads) was without incident.
I also fielded a phone call from the counselling clinic, I had been trying to get an appointment for easy child 2/difficult child 2. So we got a lot done today.
Tomorrow is a quieter day, we stay home and get some bookwork done.
Enjoy your Tuesday, everyone.
Marg
A busy day today but not too tiring.
Choir performance this morning went off well, despite a couple of mobile phones going off mid-performance (including mine - difficult child 3 had forgotten where I was!).
Then difficult child 3 drove the car (with his Ls on) to my eye doctor appointment. The eye doctor said he could see nothing new; we need ideas on what the white thing is in my eye. I don't think it's a floater. But at least it's not a detaching retina.
Again the eye doctor was efficient and thorough, as well as quick (for an eye doctor). Right next door was difficult child 3's hand therapy appointment, they made his soft wrist splint while we waited. Then it was time to drive back to our district for difficult child 3's drama class.
As we drove away (again, difficult child 3 driving with his Ls prominently displayed) some idiot behind us honked the horn at difficult child 3, who was doing nothing wrong, but waiting for the chance to safely make the turn against the traffic. he got spooked and drove into the path of oncoming traffic, then changed course and went straight to get out of the traffic path, and then nearly drove into someone else (I think our mirrors touched). difficult child 3 tried to pull ovr, but it was "no stopping" all along there, so I got him to turn left. While stopped at the lights waiting to turn left (so e could pull over) the driver of the car we almost hit knocked on the window (which meant he left his car in the traffic lane, behind us). He said something like, "When you do something like that you should pull over and apologise."
I said, "We're trying to, but it's no stopping."
Then the guy began to get offensive and said, "When you're learning to drive, go find a quieter road and stay out of the heavier traffic."
difficult child 3 CAN handle quite heavy traffic, as long as people don't hassle him; this bloke was getting more wound up so when the light turned green I ordered difficult child 3 to make the turn NOW and get away from the creep. We found a couple of back lanes and by the time I had navigated difficult child 3 back to where we were, he had calmed down. And there was no sign of either of the vehicles that hassled him. The rest of the drive (in heavy traffic on major roads) was without incident.
I also fielded a phone call from the counselling clinic, I had been trying to get an appointment for easy child 2/difficult child 2. So we got a lot done today.
Tomorrow is a quieter day, we stay home and get some bookwork done.
Enjoy your Tuesday, everyone.
Marg