I voted today. I am glad today's the elections, maybe now I can stop
hearing the stupidity ads on the radio and tv about "Mary Jo Kilroy
did this, Deborah Pryce did that, Mike DeWine sucks, Sherrod Brown
is a moron" that sort of thing.

I don't like Ohio, but what the hell, I feel it's my civic duty, and
since this is probably the one place where my fucking opinion will
be heard on something, then fine, I'll take what I can get.

On to other things.

I think my father's officially disowned me, and I think he thinks
I'm going to lay down and die of a broken heart over it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH That's hilarious!

I had called Saturday, and mom was conveniently too busy to call me
back, I guess, because she TOLD me she'd call me when she got home
so we could go over the retiring product list. Never called. Okay,
fine, Sunday comes, NOTHING.

I made the FATAL error of calling yesterday, and my dad answers,
asking me what's up. I said, "Well, I'm wondering what happened to
Mom the other day, she was supposed to call me back so we can go
over this retiring product list. It's very important she knows
what's all being taken off the shelves, because she's supposed to
pass around that catalog she's got with her at work, she told me she
would."

Dad->"She was supposed to call you back?"

Me->"Uh. . .Yeah. She was."

Dad->"When was this?"

Me->"When I called the other day. When you guys were at Wal*Mart or
somewheres, and she told me she'd call me back."

Dad->"Oh. Well, I didn't know anything about that. Your mom's no
fool, Tabi, she knows to make sure there's not going to be a
problem, yadda yadda" and I am getting really pissed by this point.

I told him, "Well, I am aware of that, but I'm no idiot, either, and
that's exactly how I'm feeling right now, like I'm being made to
feel like a moron here. I don't take kindly to that from anyone."

Dad->"No one's treating you like you're an idiot. We get busy here,
we have things we need to get done."

Me->"Well, yes, I am aware of this, and I want you to know that this
is IMPORTANT. This is my JOB on the line here. I don't want, nor do
I feel I should have to be the one who has to deal with the headache
of people calling and cussing ME up one side and down the other and
back again, because of something MOM felt it was too much of an
inconvenience 1) to call me back and just take 10 MAYBE 15 minutes
of her time to go over this list with me 2) to be honest with me
FROM THE GETGO that she didn't want to bother with this in the first
place. I don't feel that I should have to clean up someone else's
mistake here. I only clean up my own, apologize for my own flub ups,
and I REFUSE to do any clean-up for anyone else!"

I hung up and threw the phone across the room.

I put the phone back together, and he did try to call me back, I
pressed "talk" (it's a cordless), and then pressed "talk" again to
hang the phone up without one word.

I then called back and said, "You know, I am so sorry that this is
such an inconvenience on you and I promise you, I will get mom's
order sent to her as soon as I get her money. It may take up to 10
business days to get there, since it's coming by way of UPS, and I
have NO CONTROL over them, nor do I have ANY control over corporate.
I told him that since they live closer to Utah than I do, being
they're in Oregon, then it MAY come sooner than that, I DON'T KNOW.
I then told him that since my JOB and my LIFE are such an
INCONVENIENCE, I will be MORE than happy to give them what they
want, and that's me, out of their lives, PERMANENTLY.

I hung up.

I then tried to call one of my only friends, she lives in
Steubenville, and she was asleep. While I was talking to her
husband, asking him to let her know that I'd called, my father had
called, but the call waiting was turned off, so it just went
straight to voicemail. The voicemail said,

"Tab, I have an idea, you know this is Dad. We'll go ahead and order
from you this time, and then after this, we won't ever have anything
to do with you ever again. That's the way you want it, that's the
way you're going to get it."

Okay, that's fine. LIKE I CARE.