Hoosierdood
Grandmaster
So we (me, wife, son, daughter)are down in TN at my daughter and SIL's house for Thanksgiving. We all woke up this morning, and I went to the kitchen to get started on breakfast for everyone (6 of us). I get started with 3 lb of thick cut Wrights bacon, make coffee and serve everyone a cup made the way they like, and then move on to making pancakes. As I am making pancakes, I check my daughters pantry for some syrup. Crap, there's just a dribble in the bottom of the bottle, barely enough for one pancake. We are on base at Ft. Campbell, so can't send one of my kids or wife to Commissary since they don't have Military ID. But there's a gas station / convenience store that I can literally see out the kitchen window. I could walk there in less than 5 minutes.
So I ask my wife and 2 kids if anyone can quick go to the convenience store and see if they have any syrup? I can hear crickets. So I wait a few minutes, and ask again. Seriously, can anyone go to the convenience store and see if they have syrup? Here's my keys and my card. I tell them pancakes are going to be ready in about 5 minutes, so there's a time crunch on this. No movement. So I wait another couple minutes and with nobody wanting to look up from their phones long enough to take 5 minutes to get some syrup, I proceeded to throw what pancakes I had made straight in the trash. Wife asks me what I'm doing, and I go off on how I've been up making everyone breakfast, and nobody has the basic courtesy to do me a small favor and get syrup. If nobody wants to help out, then we won't have pancakes.
Shortly thereafter, wife and girls leave to go shopping all day. They get back around 6:00, and wife won't say a word to me. I ask what's up, and she tells me she's in a bad mood because I was being a d**k this morning. She's been stewing on this all day. I ask how this got turned around on me, since they were the ones who were too effing lazy to get off their butts to go 1/8th of a mile down the road to get effing syrup? She still isn't talking to me.
So, am I the a-hole for throwing the pancakes in the garbage?
So I ask my wife and 2 kids if anyone can quick go to the convenience store and see if they have any syrup? I can hear crickets. So I wait a few minutes, and ask again. Seriously, can anyone go to the convenience store and see if they have syrup? Here's my keys and my card. I tell them pancakes are going to be ready in about 5 minutes, so there's a time crunch on this. No movement. So I wait another couple minutes and with nobody wanting to look up from their phones long enough to take 5 minutes to get some syrup, I proceeded to throw what pancakes I had made straight in the trash. Wife asks me what I'm doing, and I go off on how I've been up making everyone breakfast, and nobody has the basic courtesy to do me a small favor and get syrup. If nobody wants to help out, then we won't have pancakes.
Shortly thereafter, wife and girls leave to go shopping all day. They get back around 6:00, and wife won't say a word to me. I ask what's up, and she tells me she's in a bad mood because I was being a d**k this morning. She's been stewing on this all day. I ask how this got turned around on me, since they were the ones who were too effing lazy to get off their butts to go 1/8th of a mile down the road to get effing syrup? She still isn't talking to me.
So, am I the a-hole for throwing the pancakes in the garbage?