[7:55] <Dad> You rang?
[7:55] <Xyverz> hmmm?
[7:55] <Dad> MAybe it wasn’t you?
[7:56] <Dad> You at work already?
[7:56] <Xyverz> yeah
[7:56] <Dad> Wow! Some things have =changed= in your life!
[7:56] <Dad> You must =like= this job!
[7:57] <Dad> That’s great!
[8:01] <Xyverz> no, actually, I delivered Abe to the airport by 0615
[8:01] <Xyverz> got to work at 0655 and promptly went down to the break room and passed out for 45 minutes.
[8:01] <Dad> Ah . . . where’s =he= goin’?
[8:02] <Xyverz> Romania
[8:02] <Dad> ??????
[8:02] <Xyverz> he went to Romania for the holidays
[8:02] <Dad> =WHY?=
[8:02] <Xyverz> to visit friends. why not?
[8:02] <Xyverz> it’s his third trip out there now.
[8:02] <Dad> Of all the places on earth to pick . . . why =there?=
At this point, I was good an annoyed. A friend’s decision to pick his holiday spots is just that – his decision. Besides… What’s wrong with Romania?
[8:03] <Dad> OK
[8:03] <Xyverz> if I have to tell you again, I’m going to slap you.
(And here you see me start to lose patience)
[8:03] <Xyverz> jeez.
[8:03] <Xyverz>
[8:03] <Dad> OK . . . is that where his family is from?
[8:03] <Xyverz> no
[8:03] <Xyverz> his family’s originally from Fiji, if memory serves me right.
[8:03] <Dad> Just =his= New Zealand?
[8:04] <Dad> Ah . . .
[8:04] <Dad> Gotta go — we gonna put the tree up — do NOT confuse that with “decorate” the tree!
[8:04] <Xyverz> heh
[8:04] <Xyverz> ok
[8:04] <Dad> Cya
(So by this time, I’ve relaxed a bit. Good. I don’t like being wound up in the morning)
[8:05] <Dad> Did you get Nini’s message about holiday eating?
[8:05] <Xyverz> I haven’t checked my email yet today.
[8:05] <Xyverz> will do so when I get home.
*** Dad tries sending this file via IM ***
[8:07] <Xyverz> can’t receive files behind my firewall
[8:07] <Dad> Bummer . . . it =is= cute.
[8:08] <Dad> I’ll e-mail it to you at home.
[8:08] <Dad> Gotta go to work on the living room . . . love U!
[8:08] <Xyverz> if nini emailed it to you
[8:08] <Xyverz> I have a copy too
[8:08] <Xyverz> don’t email it to me.
Don’t get me wrong. I love my dad, and 99.9% of the time, our chats aren’t annoying to me. But his failure to take my friend’s decision at face value really rubbed on me this morning. It doesn’t make me feel good that I got so annoyed with him, but it happened anyway. Of course, it could be because I’m *very* tired this morning.
*sigh*
(And Dad, if you’re reading this, I love you very much.)
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