Patience?  I had none.  Yes, that’s right.

Oh sure, I started out with it … but three hours later, I will admit that my patience had completely run out.

I had plans of a nice, relaxing evening lounging on the hammock by the pool playing with our black rescue kitten.  I got to enjoy about 15 minutes of this before my oldest daughter came home insisting that she just HAD to go get a new phone RIGHT THAT MINUTE.

Apparently, her phone wouldn’t stay charged no matter what.

Now, if you have children, you KNOW that they are completely addicted to their phones, so asking her to wait ~GASPS OF HORROR~ until the next day was just absolutely out of the question.  She was having it no other way.  And, since she was on my account, I had to be there as the authorized account holder for anything to happen tonight.

As much as I protested, she insisted … and I gave in.

Three hours later we are STILL inside the wireless store because they could not get the transaction to go through on swapping out the phones.  Believe me, I WISH I was exaggerating about the three hours, but sadly, I AM NOT!

Frustration was mounting.

My husband joined us, as did our youngest daughter, and we had not eaten a thing yet.  There we were, all of us, stuck inside the wireless store.  What was the latest problem you might ask?  NOW they had turned her phone off under my account and were trying to activate her under a new account – since she’s an adult now and wanted her own plan/bill/etc.

We sat there waiting for them to resolve this.  Some how, some way, we needed a resolution.  Either get the authorization for the new account under her name … or put her back on my account and reactivate the phone.

Lord only knows what my next bill will look like after all the changes tonight.  They’ve reassured me that they’d take care of any extra charges.  We will see about that.

THREE … HOURS … LATER …

We finally decided to run down the road to get supper while we waited for them to work the problems out on their end.  We left my oldest daughter there tending to her new account and new phone – look at her adult-ing!!!!

Wouldn’t you know it – as luck would have it, they LOST our order at the restaurant as we sat there waiting.  Everyone else behind us had gotten their food, and yet … there we stood … still waiting.

Oh Lordy!

We waited .. and all the while I had to try to find humor in this as I recalled looking over the prompt words preparing to write my daily post … what was the prompt word? PATIENCE!!!!

~uncontrollable laughter~

Once they finally realized there was a problem and we hadn’t received our order, they went back there to personally make the meals themselves.  And then we were on the way back to my oldest daughter who was still stuck at the wireless store.

You’d think that would be the end.  Right?  That when I arrived, I would find her standing outside the wireless store happily talking on or using her new device.  Right?

WRONG!!

They STILL had problems, so back inside we went to wait for them to finish and wrap things up after they got the issues fixed.

We walked out of the wireless store trying not to jump up and down on each other’s nerves due to our frustration with the situation — but not with each other!  Honestly, our patience had worn thin hours ago.  We were spent, exhausted, beyond tired and aggravated.

Patience?  I HAD NONE at that point!

What did I do to remain calm throughout this time period?  Honestly, I will have to say that I did a LOT of deep breathing exercises.  And … I prayed silently to myself, probably not as much as  I should have to be able to remain calm.  But, I tried … HARD … literally for hours!

In the mist of this, her boyfriend texted me.  I’ll admit that with everything going on, I was frazzled!  He listened to my rant via text message, added a little rant of his own, and things started to feel a little better on my end as I released a little of the steam that was building between my ears!

With the week we’ve had … trouble with my daughter’s employer … problems with so called “friends” … problems with a pastor’s wife, nonetheless … oh yes … it’s Tuesday, and I can say that I have had quite enough!

Tomorrow will be another day, and we’ll try again on that leisurely evening of laying in the hammock with my little black rescue cat.

For now …

Goodnight.