Whine About it Wednesday!
Get ready. Here’s another baseball related whine.Â
 
 My son comes in from ball practice yesterday and hands me a peice of paper. “You have to work the concession stand on Saturday.”
“What?”
Naturally he goes directly to the refrigerator. “You’re signed up to work the concession stand on Saturday.”
I blink. “But I didn’t sign up.”
“You don’t have to sign up. They sign you up.”
They sign me up? Without asking me? Who is this mysterious “they” who have the power to allot MY time? What if I have something to do? What if I’m not going to be there? (I am, but that’s not the point.) DH comes in and I’m ranting about it to him, appalled at this brazen hijacking of MY time.Â
He shrugs. “It’s how it’s done. You only have to do it once.”
It may be how it’s done, but I don’t like it, and I will do it instead of humiliating my child, but this blatant disrespect for other people’s time is really starting to get on my nerves. 
March 21st, 2007 at 7:44 am
You’re wishing he signed up for the chess team right about now, huh…
March 21st, 2007 at 7:55 am
Well…here’s the deal, sweetling. It’s not YOU that’s signed up. It’s a parent from the Nelson household.
That means you can tell DH that HE’S working the concession stand on Saturday…cause that’s the way it’s done. 
March 21st, 2007 at 8:13 am
Love your website. Got it from the Writing Playground. Both have become an early morning reading ritual. But getting to the concession stand complication. When my son was in little league we also had to take a turn with the dreaded duty -or- they had a few teenagers who wanted to make some extra money and you could pay them 10 dollars to take your turn working. Best 10 dollars I ever spent!
March 21st, 2007 at 8:20 am
This is why I’m delaying my child entering the sports arena for as long as I possibly can…
My husband’s family has always been into sports and he and his sister played everything imaginable growing up. I’ve already informed him of the rules: 1. She may play 1 sport each year, no more. 2. If I have something else I need to do, HE gets to go sit at the ball field with the baby. Not me.
Is there a “slave driver” icon?
March 21st, 2007 at 8:39 am
Oh yeah… that’s the part of Little League I didn’t like. But the DH usually did our turn because when he was a youth, his dream was to be a short order cook (crazy, I know). So every year I’d remind him that here was his big chance.
I like Jen’s suggestion. Or Sherry’s if that’s available to you. Never do anything you can pay a teenager to do for ten bucks.
My whine today: spring has sprung, there’s pollen in the air and Claritin has stopped working for me. I think I’m going to have to go back to the more expensive prescription antihistamines.
March 21st, 2007 at 8:55 am
You’d think they would at least pass around a calendar and sign up sheet at the first game so people could have the opportunity to volunteer when it worked for them. And yes, I think its completely reasonable that DH be the one working concessions. Every man needs to know how to make a good sno cone.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:10 am
Andrea, chess would have definitely been better.
Jen, believe me, I’ve already thought of that. But dh is working on Saturday. It’s all part of the new be-off-on-Monday schedule.
Sherry, thanks for stopping by! The Playground is a wonderful place to hang out, isn’t it?
I hadn’t considered paying a teenager, but this is *wonderful* advice. Thanks!
Danniele, I wish I had a slave driver icon!
Marilyn, when I went outside this morning there was pollen all over my car. (I can’t get onto the carport because the ping-pong table is there.
) I feel for you! I usually get a shot to tide me through the first part of allergy season.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:16 am
Have fun Saturday. Advance notice would have been nice. I have no Whines today. I am off. Lots to do around here but no going to work yesterday, today or Friday. Next week I will be have to play catch up.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:33 am
(Dance, AC, dance! Daddy will buy you a new computer…
March 21st, 2007 at 10:30 am
My whine today is of my own making. I was in Dalton ,Ga yesterday and 10 miles from delivering. I let myself get frushtrated because of slow cars , so I got in the far left lane ( it is restricted from vehicles 6 wheels or more ) I was not allowed in it. I went to change lanes , to get back in the middle lane and didn’t see a car and hit it. Thank goodness no one was hurt and I got my first ever tickets. I have to wait 2 to 5 working days to find out how much I have to pay for them. Tickets for CDL holders are alot more expensive .
March 21st, 2007 at 11:17 am
March 21st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Yep, been there. Also, if your child is in band, you get Kitchen duty. And that pollen is everywhere, lately it’s seems that I am popping Allegra D like candy and that stuff is some expensive candy believe you me. My whine is that I am about to go cut my back yard. I can’t whine too much because I am off today, yeah!!! And I didn’t get up this morning until shortly before 9 am, yeah!!!! So have a great afternoon and sorry about the baseball kitchen duty.
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:56 am
Susan, glad to hear that you’re off today! Everyone needs a breather every once in a while.
Kimberly, it *was* rude. I’m so glad I’m not alone in thinking this. And too funny on AC. Nothing like a little bribery to get them motivated, eh?
Mis! So glad nobody was hurt! Hope the tickets aren’t too bad.
Ginger, kudos for getting to sleep in and being off today!