TDW-Mark 2, Second Son Charlie, and his wife and I were out to dinner one night. Charlie had asked me how work was going, and I fell into my reflexive recitation of complaints about my employer. Yada, yada, yada, bitch, moan, and complain.
After a couple of minutes, I stopped to take a breath. Charlie looked at me, contemplatively, and asked me, “Dad? Can I ask you a question?”
“Sure. Lay it on me!”
“Do you suppose that, say, Cuban refugees, having entrusted their families, and their own, lives to rafts made, oh, out of a pickup truck and old water bottles, stagger onto the Florida shore, join hands, and ask each other, ‘Doesn’t McFee’s life really suck?’”
I considered my son’s question. “Really, I doubt that they spend an entire second on that concern.”
He smiled upon me, as if a Jedi Master upon a Paduan. “Yep, Dad. First World problems!”
Proud Papa moment, right there!
Musings of A Stretcher Ape 