Trying so hard not to be Marie…
January 9, 2008 by Kerri Aldrich
Filed under Relationships
Barone, that is, matriarch character of Everybody Loves Raymond. Cuz I could totally turn into her (she says as if she’s not already).
The latest being the day that Bald Man called sick into work. He doesn’t often, really. He has to be pretty bad to not go into the office. As in, he wasn’t dying or anything, but only because he knows I’d be really ticked if he went and died on me with all these kids around and such.
So, anyway, he calls a co-worker to let them know that he won’t be in because, “he has a little head cold”. A little head cold.
It was so hard not to call back and say, “Actually, he can only almost breathe, he’s had a fever and chills all night, his head is splitting, and all the drugs in the house seem to have hardly registered in his body.”
I even asked him at one point if it would be too very Marie of me to call and say that. I think he mumbled a horrified “yeah”.
Now, let’s just hope my co-workers don’t read this.
Seriously, though, I think the last time I called in sick was when my appendix ruptured. I don’t remember making the phone call myself, so there’s at least some precendent for you calling work on my behalf.