A coworker tossed off a comment about me ‘coasting’ through work today, and it stuck.
I caught myself still chewing on it while stirring dinner, then while my daughter tried to explain her homework and I had to ask her to repeat it.
Dinner burned on one side, and my son stopped telling me about his project because I clearly wasn’t there.
It was probably nothing to her by the time she left. It is still something in my kitchen tonight!
That coasting comment sounds like exactly the kind of thing that keeps looping long after she’s forgotten she said it. I’ve had a dinner burn the same way while my mind was stuck somewhere else entirely, and my son going quiet like that is the part that actually stays with you.
give her 2 minutes rent free, not dinner
Your son going quiet is the part that actually stings, not her comment. That’s the real cost of carrying it all evening.
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