Phone call
We had our telephone in the early seventies and it was considered a very important gadget. It still is but now we hardly use the main home phone anymore and rely mostly on our mobile phones for our communications. But the purpose is the same.. for communication... and as in the past (as my father had always insisted) to keep the family informed on where you are or how you are if you are far from home. It is always SOP to call home and tell where you are if you can't make it home at the proper time... you should never keep people worried... and since mama is one worry wort you should make an effort to tell her how and where you are so she could be at peace...
Last night we were all up late... I wasn't planning to. I was tired and I wanted to rest but mama called my other sister's help and asked if her sister (who was my brother's help) came home already. She left very early without informing my brother where she was going but her sister knew that she was attending a seminar on MLM. Mama could not sleep of course since we are not complete at home yet and she asked Cheryl to call Che (they are twins by the way)... and she texted her and got a response that she was okay... It was not enough, mama wanted to know if she talked with her and when she called her another person answered and told her that she was okay but could not be on the phone since they were in the middle of their training... gosh it was almost 12 midnight! Now everybody was up and wondering how she was... the lady would not give the phone... even her older sister who was staying with my other sister in another place was worried and called her and the lady would still not give the phone.. it was their SOP! WE asked for the address, she would not give... geez, we were worried of course... mama was tired and has passed the burden to the rest of the family and was able to sleep... darn... now I could not sleep!
Clock was ticking.. 12:30 1:00... we could not do anything... and then Cheryl said she was tired and went to their room... then my sister... then my sister in law and my brother.... i stayed in the living room waiting... 1:30... 2:00... geez i too was tired. I could not do anything and waited in my room. I did not close the light hoping to sleep lightly and wait... then I got up around 6:00 and knocked on their door... she opened... she just came home...
She was okay... I had a terrible headache... i went back to my room and rested...
Her older sister came and they talked... my sis-in-law also talked... i was listening...
She was so caught up on the fever of multi-level marketing... on the prospect of getting rich... I don't exactly know what went on in that seminar to keep her that long... I could understand her desire to get rich...
But she should have called and told us herself that she was okay...
we are just a phone call away... a few minutes who not have mattered if she called...
Now I don't know what's going to happen next... I'm glad she is okay...
But still I wish she just called!
Last night we were all up late... I wasn't planning to. I was tired and I wanted to rest but mama called my other sister's help and asked if her sister (who was my brother's help) came home already. She left very early without informing my brother where she was going but her sister knew that she was attending a seminar on MLM. Mama could not sleep of course since we are not complete at home yet and she asked Cheryl to call Che (they are twins by the way)... and she texted her and got a response that she was okay... It was not enough, mama wanted to know if she talked with her and when she called her another person answered and told her that she was okay but could not be on the phone since they were in the middle of their training... gosh it was almost 12 midnight! Now everybody was up and wondering how she was... the lady would not give the phone... even her older sister who was staying with my other sister in another place was worried and called her and the lady would still not give the phone.. it was their SOP! WE asked for the address, she would not give... geez, we were worried of course... mama was tired and has passed the burden to the rest of the family and was able to sleep... darn... now I could not sleep!
Clock was ticking.. 12:30 1:00... we could not do anything... and then Cheryl said she was tired and went to their room... then my sister... then my sister in law and my brother.... i stayed in the living room waiting... 1:30... 2:00... geez i too was tired. I could not do anything and waited in my room. I did not close the light hoping to sleep lightly and wait... then I got up around 6:00 and knocked on their door... she opened... she just came home...
She was okay... I had a terrible headache... i went back to my room and rested...
Her older sister came and they talked... my sis-in-law also talked... i was listening...
She was so caught up on the fever of multi-level marketing... on the prospect of getting rich... I don't exactly know what went on in that seminar to keep her that long... I could understand her desire to get rich...
But she should have called and told us herself that she was okay...
we are just a phone call away... a few minutes who not have mattered if she called...
Now I don't know what's going to happen next... I'm glad she is okay...
But still I wish she just called!
posted by elizabeth | 3:29 PM
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