Rainy Days and Mondays

Yesterday was Monday which is always the most interesting day of the week here at our wonderful place of employment. Monday morning when we arrive at the office, there are always a few messages on the answering machine that resemble this...........

"Can't come in today. My husband got arrested over the weekend, I have to bail him out and I have to find the money."

"Can't come in today. One of my kids got arrested over the weekend, I have to bail him out and I have to find the money."

"My car got repossessed over the weekend and I need to find the money to get it back."

I could waste my entire blog space with a lengthy list of excuses that seem to "develop" over the weekend. The amazing part is that almost every excuse involves money, or lack there of. How do you make money? Yes, by coming to work. However that seems to be a difficult concept for some of our employees. So, they take another day off and then come payday, I am going to have to listen to the saga of how they can't afford to pay their bills because they don't get enough hours each week!!

As I said, Mondays are always interesting. We got a call from one of our drivers who called to say that she wouldn't be coming to work in the afternoon. She had to go to the doctor because she couldn't walk. This was after she spent 10 minutes telling me about her very active weekend but then decided she couldn't walk. I asked, foolishly, is it your legs, hips, feet that hurt? "No", was the answer, "I think I'm consitpated and it is effecting my walking, so I really can't drive." Now what should I have said to that? My initial reaction was "how does constipation effect your driving?" I guess maybe that was heartless but I still don't get it. Maybe we should put an Exlax dispenser in the vestibule instead of the soda machine!

Thanks to everyone that wrote a comment welcoming me to bloggerland. I'm very excited! As I said in my first post, this is going to be theraputic for me!!