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CRAP.. I should have known my plans would be ruined

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Submitted by Last-Wife on Sat, 11/20/2010 - 7:02pm

Princess arrived home from college for the week. She tells me Loca Grande has decided to have their Thanksgiving tomorrow. So she'll go up there tomorrow and stay just a day with them. She probably won't want to go back, and then Lazy Boye won't have a ride there, so it looks like all the skids will be home for Thanksgiving.

Poo. I was planning to be "sick" Thursday so I could get out of going to my SILs- my brother in laws wife. I really didn't want to deal with her family, who would be there too. It's like some hillbilly reunion when they are all together. And for the county I live in, that's saying a lot! It's just too much, and my allergies can't take all the cigarette smoke. But with the skids home, I really can't get out of going.

I was really looking forward to the skids going away for a few days...

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Submitted by caregiver1127 on Sat, 11/20/2010 - 8:00pm

Last -wife you could always say you have diarrhea on Wednesday and it is continuing into Thanksgiving - no one really questions when someone says they have diarrhea - it is kinda taboo to talk about so diarrhea - being a nurse I know it is the number one excuse for people to use to not go to work or any function that they don't want to. People don't want the details so they will hurry you off the phone - then the kids can go to SIL's and you can stay home or go to a friends house or maybe you and hubby can be together. Drop off the skids at SIL's and have DH tell her that he needs to come back and take care of you because you could get dehydrated and that could be real serious!! }:) }:) }:)

Also you could get pink eye and tell the skids to go to their BM's for the weekend as you don't want to spread it to them - just rub your eyes a bit and make sure they are red and lay in bed and claim that they hurt - antibiotics clear them up in a day! }:) }:)

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Submitted by GoodbyeNormaJean on Sat, 11/20/2010 - 8:06pm

EXACTLY. Diarreah is like Clorox wipes. You can use it for anything. Don't want to go to a family gathering? Use diarreah! Hate riding in the car? It's diarreah time! And the beauty of it is that everyone will leave you the hell alone. You take your smartphone or a book, head into the bathroom, and NOBODY even wants to know what you are doing in there! It's so beautiful.