Chip Chick
Recently, this 40-year-old woman celebrated her birthday, and she made a reservation at a nice restaurant for 7 p.m.
The restaurant is located 20 minutes from her house, so she knew she had to leave by 6:30 so she would have enough time to pick up her dad and battle a bit of traffic.
At 6 p.m. that night, her 43-year-old husband wanted to work on his car, and he knew what time they needed to leave to make it to her birthday dinner on time.
Then 6:30 rolled around, and she and her kids were waiting by their front door, ready to head over to the restaurant.
Her husband was still working on his car and made no effort to finish up and get ready.
“He hadn’t changed and hadn’t showered,” she explained. “I told him to quickly get ready, but it got to 6:50, and he still wasn’t ready yet, so I decided to just leave without him.”
“He has a habit of always running late when we go out, and he is always the last one to be ready. Normally, I can tolerate it since it only sets things back by ten minutes at the most, but my birthday dinner was important to me, and I had been looking forward to it for weeks.”
She shouted at her husband that she was leaving with the kids, and then she left without him. She was worried about losing her reservation since she was already on track to be 20 minutes behind her reservation time.
She was able to call the restaurant and inform them of her arrival time, and they thankfully were able to hold her table.
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