Cuz You're a Nice Person?

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Today was a challenging day. It was another day driving along the Job Interview Highway. After driving this road, one that’s full of surprising challenges, I wondered if I’d ever be able to find an exit.

Along the way, I had pulled over at the Self-Doubt rest stop. I had traveled over the I’m Not Good Enough bridge and paid the toll so many times that I found it easier to purchase the E-ZPass. And, lately, it felt like I had driven around the Rotary of Rejection one too many times.

Some days you think you’re going to make it. Other days you think you don’t care anymore. And on a day like today, you wonder if you shouldn’t take the Route 2A exit off of the Rotary of Rejection and proceed directly to Target or Bed Bath & Beyond for a full-time job.

Last night, Nathan asked me if I could take him and his friend, Harry, to TJ Collectibles on Saturday. They wanted to attend a Magic card “draft.” Again, don’t ask me about the specifics of it; and at my request, I had the draft explained to me again on the way home from school last week, and I still didn’t “get” it.

When Nathan got home from school today, he said, “Mom, I have to work at 3pm on Saturday, so can you pick us up at 1pm instead of 5pm?” I said, “Sure.” I then thought about it for a minute and I asked, “Nathan, aren’t you with your Dad this weekend?”

I then walked through the kitchen and positioned myself under the stairwell. He was upstairs and hanging over the railing. I was looking up at him when he said, “Yeah.” I asked, “If you’re with your Dad, then why am I taking you?”

It wasn’t that I minded taking him and Harry; I just wondered why he hadn’t asked the “Non-Gullible Parent.” He smiled at me, began to say something, but then he paused. He then said, “Cuz you’re a nice person,” which just might have been punctuated with a question mark instead of a “Period.”

I laughed out loud. I smiled up at him. I sighed and then I said, “Yeah, I am.”

I knew I was being somewhat coerced into a road trip for magic cards; however, I knew the trip meant a lot to him and was a trip that he didn't feel comfortable asking his father to take him on for some reason. Despite it all, the trip was already worth it. He told me something that I really needed to hear, especially today, even if there was a question mark after it masquerading as a period or visa versa! ♥