We have always been in difficult times, partly because some people make their lives more difficult. This is what I mean.
At the end of July, the stimulus bill that gave qualifying Americans an unemployment boost of $600 per week came to an end. A few days before that a woman stated that she could not live off of $400 per week, because to her she would be existing. Not only is she having a difficult time adjusting, I am having a difficult time understanding why she didn’t put even a tiny amount of money away when she was living large.
Teachers are having a difficult time with pretty much everything except communicating their grievences of which there are many. At one point a group of teachers refused to enter a school because according to them they didn’t have proper PPEs. Shortly after that, another group said that they don’t always know what school they are going to be teaching at from one day to the next. I guess they never considered that after people are appointed to be judges, they get moved around from one courthouse to the next without always knowing where they are working sometimes until the morning of. One day they could be in Newmarket, the next they might be in Oshawa. And they usually only have a few hours to read the files, of which there are many. If teachers keep up all of their complaining, everyone will be having an even more difficult time with teachers.
On my second last visit to my parents, my mother said, “you need to do your part,” and said that on my next visit I should mow the lawn. I asked her what her two able-bodied teenage grandsons, both on either side of 16, who live less than 2 kilometeres away were doing during their COVID-19 summer holidays. Why wasn’t she asking one of them? Not only do I live in Toronto, which is over 50 kilometres away, I am in my 50’s, and I visit my parents for about 4 hours twice a month from noon until 4 pm, the hottest times of the day. If my mother is having a difficult time with the lawn, she could always ask her son-in-law if her grandsons aren’t willing to help her. He has two days off a week, has keys to my parents house, partly because my parents bought their house from my sister and the above mentioned son-in-law. He is younger than me and knows how to operate a lawn mower. If you are having a difficult time understanding why my mother would ask me to mow the lawn, I am not. If it wasn’t last winter, it was the winter before when the weather person announced a snow storm for the weekend and my mother suggested that I stop by to help her shovel the snow. Just for the record, I don’t have a problem helping my parents. On my last visit, I shaved my dad’s head, trimmed his eyebrows, got as much of the hair in his ears as possible and trimmed his toe nails, which after 5 months where desperate for a lot of attention. Just for the record, I have been doing thing like that for my father for years. I don’t have a problem helping my parents. I just have a difficult time with most of my mother’s suggetions, always have.
These are difficult times only because some people insist on making their lives more difficult. As usual I could go on, yet I won’t.
Here is a link to my post from Behind the Blog. It is called, These Are Really Difficult Times,
Thank you for reading, A. Rebel’s Rant! ;D
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