Most people see my job as easy and FUN! Well let me tell all of you at once... it's neither easy nor fun. I know that y'all are all thinking, what? No! It's all fun in the sun coaching sailing. Well coaching and teaching are two very different things and today I got to teach 20 kids how to tow and it was utterly painful. I'll just give you a few highlights of my day...
- "The Tummy Ache"
- Mason: my stomach hurts real bad, I can't sail
- Me: Well ok we'll call your mom to go home
- Mason: Good I think I'm going to throw up
- (I start to giggle at the thought of him voming in his mom's new lexus)
- Me: Well Mason what did you have for lunch?
- Mason: A vanilla milkshake, two orders of chicken tenders, curly fries AND regular fries and well... two cokes
Now guys I'm no doctor but that could be it!
- "I can't tow"
- Now true this is one of my kids that I despise but today he decided to run into my boat, throw me a ball of a bowline with more knots than a homemade ladder, run over my towline with 3 kids already on it and then look at me as if this was all my fault. I threw it back at him, he got huffy and yelled "FINE! I'm gonna sail in!" Mission accomplished
- "I refuse to talk to anyone"
- This is a daily occurrence with my little Anna... She looks at her feet and refuses to acknowledge anyones presence.
- Anna what's wrong, are you ok, are you scared... ok great you can just stand there!
- "I refuse to clip my mainsheet on and go sailing"
- Note: this is the older brother of "I refuse to talk to anyone"
- This is pretty self explanatory... he almost drifted into the rocks and that made me laugh
That was just a few of the things I dealt with today. At the end of it I just wanted to go home but of course I had a billion little things to deal with before I could drive away from 'the office.' But as I drove away I was sweating, angry/annoyed, and very tired and then I received a text "YAY! 4 day holiday" I almost threw my phone out the window! But when I arrived home I quickly changed my day around by doing the following (please feel free to take these tips and try them the next time you're having a bad day)
- Tell someone how shitty it was
- Tell someone else how shitty it was but begin to laugh at how utterly ridiculous it was
- Take your clothes off
- Eat a bowl of ice cream
- Take a hot shower
- Brag to others about how amazing your ice cream was and point out that they don't have any
- Read ridiculous online posts like this airline complaint (Andrew, where do you find this stuff?)
Some how my day has started new again and let me tell you... it's going to be a good day!
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