Tom Skerritt
Footballguy
On vacation with the family and in-laws. Everyone else is staying in vacation city for two weeks. I had to leave after one week to get back to work.
I had driven myself and 3 other kids to the vacation spot, but I was driving back solo. It is a 16-hour drive door-to-door. I left early Saturday morning around 8:00am. I had intended to stop somewhere in the 10-12 hour mark, get a hotel, and then complete the remainder of the trip on Sunday. This would get me home in the afternoon on Sunday. And I have to be up at 2:00am on Monday to go in to work.
For reasons that I will not go into other than the fact that there is a previous traumatic experience, my wife and her family were relieved that I would be getting a hotel overnight. And they would not be happy if I were to drive straight through into the night. However, I was making great time. By the time it got dark, I was less than 4 hours from home. And I felt totally fine and confident that I would make it home without any problems on my end.
Here is where I screwed up. I texted the wife and told her that I was stopping for the night. I told her that I would be getting up early Sunday morning to complete the trip, and that I may even get home before she gets up. And I continued driving. Her first reply was "If you are driving all night, I will kill you." Followed by "You are aren't you?"
It was 9:30pm, and I explained to her that I was only 3 hours from home. And then I asked "Are you mad?" I got no response.
The final 3 hours of the drive was on mostly rural highways going through several small towns. At each town, I sent a text to my wife telling her where I was... just to let her know I was okay. I sent maybe 8-10 texts of these towns, one every 30 minutes or so. And I did not get a response after any of these. When I finally arrived home around 1:00am, I texted a picture of me outside my house, and told her that I was "home, good night, and I love you!" To which she simply gave a thumbs-up in response.
I know she's upset. And I'm sure that she's more upset that I lied to her than for driving all the way home. But she would have been mad had I driven all of the way home and not lied about it too. I chose poorly. I have admitted my mistake and apologized. And I have gotten the cold shoulder ever since.
So how bad is this? Really bad... kinda bad... meh... not bad at all... why are you such a #####?
I had driven myself and 3 other kids to the vacation spot, but I was driving back solo. It is a 16-hour drive door-to-door. I left early Saturday morning around 8:00am. I had intended to stop somewhere in the 10-12 hour mark, get a hotel, and then complete the remainder of the trip on Sunday. This would get me home in the afternoon on Sunday. And I have to be up at 2:00am on Monday to go in to work.
For reasons that I will not go into other than the fact that there is a previous traumatic experience, my wife and her family were relieved that I would be getting a hotel overnight. And they would not be happy if I were to drive straight through into the night. However, I was making great time. By the time it got dark, I was less than 4 hours from home. And I felt totally fine and confident that I would make it home without any problems on my end.
Here is where I screwed up. I texted the wife and told her that I was stopping for the night. I told her that I would be getting up early Sunday morning to complete the trip, and that I may even get home before she gets up. And I continued driving. Her first reply was "If you are driving all night, I will kill you." Followed by "You are aren't you?"
It was 9:30pm, and I explained to her that I was only 3 hours from home. And then I asked "Are you mad?" I got no response.
The final 3 hours of the drive was on mostly rural highways going through several small towns. At each town, I sent a text to my wife telling her where I was... just to let her know I was okay. I sent maybe 8-10 texts of these towns, one every 30 minutes or so. And I did not get a response after any of these. When I finally arrived home around 1:00am, I texted a picture of me outside my house, and told her that I was "home, good night, and I love you!" To which she simply gave a thumbs-up in response.
I know she's upset. And I'm sure that she's more upset that I lied to her than for driving all the way home. But she would have been mad had I driven all of the way home and not lied about it too. I chose poorly. I have admitted my mistake and apologized. And I have gotten the cold shoulder ever since.
So how bad is this? Really bad... kinda bad... meh... not bad at all... why are you such a #####?