Tonight I played chauffeur for my husband and youngest son as we headed to dinner at Outback. Apparently I was craving the ethnicity of Australian food.
At a stoplight I noticed a jagged nail on my middle finger, so I positioned my hand on the steering wheel, and with the other opened the console and reached for a nail file.
Imagine my fingers splayed across the leather rim, three fingers grasping the steering wheel but my middle finger–the one with the broken nail–extended. I began filing quickly, knowing the light would turn before I was finished.
Stephen, gasping in horror, tsked me like an old mother hen: "Moooo-ooom! N i c e finger…."
(My children cannot EVER handle me gesturing with my middle finger, they always "see" the worst.)
Tad: "You're making a mess."
He didn't even see my middle finger! All he noticed was the nail dust flying.
And me? All I saw were a mother's hands, in dire need of a manicure.
I thought that’s what stoplights were for! I eat breakfast and do my makeup in the morning only due to stoplights.
I haven’t stopped by here in a while, but haven’t forgotten you. Had to say “Hi”.
Ha! Just waiting for my kids to stumble upon that concept. Good multi-tasking manicure!
I use stoplights to search for stray hairs that don’t belong in the eyebrow region….multi-tasking is a must for busy moms!
Maybe I should do it with my middle finger extended and see if I get the attention of my kids?
My kids find any excuse to “catch” me with my middle-finger up. Not that I have it up much, but they’ve discovered that it’s “bad” so they must now return to it over and over and… 🙂
In the writing world, that’s what we call POV.