Truer words, Dick.
Sometimes a phrase spoken in haste and frustration is worth a thousand pictures.
“I just don’t feel like I should have to deal with that”
is what Dick said when, to cap off a pretty crappy weekend, Spot pooped in the tub on Sunday morning.
He had reasons. Oh, did he have reasons. He was busy, he’d changed a poopy diaper the day before. He was already in his suit. He was trying to get the Sunday School scriptures read.
Almost before the words were out of his mouth, he retreated (and said, resigned, that if I blogged about it, just wait till I see the post he has to write about me).
Well. Who can resist that kind of marital give-and-take?
The truth is: this could be my motto some days:
I just don’t feel like I should have to deal with that.
Dirty dishes, stinky laundry, the princess pony creep.
Sad kids, angry kids, tired kids, hungry kids.
I just don’t feel like I should have to deal with that.
I’m afraid I’m not alone. Probably our economy and our society, our hopes and our dreams could survive with one or two of us adopting this motto, but if everyone says
I just don’t feel like I should have to deal with that
Who will?
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Oh, Dick. That was the wrong answer
And I don’t see how he is going to be able to talk about it on his blog, which after all, isn’t a parenting blog… 
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Jane, this is so true. I feel like this all the time – I shouldn’t have to deal with most of the things I do. I guess I just do it because I love my kids. Sorry about the tub-poop thing. Amazingly, that has never happened to us. Hey, a perfect record for one little thing.
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i think most everyone feels that way about a lot of things.
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I shouldn’t have to deal with kids who show up 30 minutes late to a 50 minute class.
I shouldn’t have to deal with driving around the school parking lot for 30 minutes trying to find a parking space because there is not faculty parking.
I shouldn’t have to deal with students who spend 10 minutes writing a paper that will take me 20 minutes to grade only to fail them at the end of class.
I shouldn’t have to deal with the fact that my type A slightly OCD child falls into tears if anything remotely resembling a spider web is near her or her cup is on the wrong side of her plate.
But mainly, I’m glad that at the end of the day I can complain about these unreasonable demands with a man who loves, respects and cherishes me. (Dick, you can thank me later)
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You don’t have to offer a kidney to get friends coming into your blog and comment
they do it anyway! Just wanted to say hello after reading your respond.
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My version of “I don’t think I should have to deal with that” is “Are you kidding?” I think it encompasses the same emotions without insinuating someone else should have to deal with something…if I don’t want to chances are nobody else wants to deal with it either.
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Good point, Erin. (It’s not the not wanting to do it that’s objectionable, it’s the insinuation that someone else SHOULD have to.)
My version is (and I try to keep this in my head): “I have better things to do with my life (MY LIFE) than ……”
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