Tag: work-life balance

Natty Bumpercar: hey there bumper podcast it's me natty bumper car and i am coming to you a little bit quiet today and that is because i am sitting in an airport but not just at an airport at a terrible restaurant in an airport because i forgot to eat food and my flight leaves in an hour and oh here comes the waitress hold on thank you very much and um so i figured now it's a good time to say hello to you because it is wednesday it's the day of bumper podcast here is me opening my straw oh yeah this is a big day so let me tell you a little about my day i got up early i uh missed a field trip uh the first time i've had to do that for my uh for baby bumper car now four-year-old bumper car and it was a terrible time around headquarters last night it was one of the most depressing times i've had in a while he looked uh more hurt and uh and let down and sad than i think he ever has with me before and so it was one of those parenting moments you know it was just like daddy has to go to work and i even like threw in i was just like daddy you know to get the food we have and to have the house that we have i did that to him he's four it didn't mean anything to him and so then i uh capitulated i was beaten down and what i went and did ended up doing was uh i was like do you want do you want me to get you a prize from wherever it is that i'm going because i can do that i can get you a surprise which he immediately goes to well what is it i don't know it's a surprise you know well what is it where are you getting it the place i'm going is i'll get it from there you know that general area that town and what it is i haven't seen it i'm not there i'm here so i don't know well what is it okay and this was about a half an hour back and forth so then but today everything was pretty fine he calmed down a little bit i calmed down a little bit uh i also have the flu because why wouldn't i be sick uh i'm at the tail end of it saturday i couldn't move it was one of those things i was laying down just waves washing over me with pains have you ever and but the thing is is i got a flu shot so you know what i shouldn't have the flu but i do um and i'm getting on an airplane so i'm guessing i'm gonna be sick for about another year um so then today drop him off at school uh drop the tiny one off at school i had to slather his face with uh uh neosporin because he's all sick and his face is all bloody yucky it's all raw it's so sad when babies aren't happy it's so sad but he's he's all right he's fine and so then i i went home and i i packed haven't been on an airplane in a couple years so it's kind of exciting but i'm also uh constantly thinking i'm forgetting stuff um but so far so good i got to the airport i went to the uh the overnight parking and found out that it was gonna cost me fifty dollars and i said no no i want your cheapest i'll have your cheapest parking good sir and so then off i drove about four miles away like down roads that weren't even roads and every so often a sign would come up and say um yeah sure there's a parking lot down here and i'm a believing fellow a chap so all i went and i got there got on the bus came to the proper airline and um and i got in everything's great and then i went i went had to go potty because i went to the bathroom and i was in there and the fire alarm went off and i mean the most painful thing ever like ears popping painful and uh it was me and there were three other guys in there and uh they all we all looked at each other and shrugged our shoulders because that's what you do in social situations for instance i had two tables down from me but this kid just looked over at me because i'm recording something so i'm talking to myself and uh he shrugged again because again the shrug is the universal hey what's going on i don't know i don't do you know what's going on i have no idea so now i'm in a terrible restaurant i got an hour and 25 minutes before my flight i'm gonna eat some shrimp because why not get food poisoning before going on a business trip i think it's probably my best move and um i've been caught up you know my day better than i do so i hope you have a good day and that you're not at an airport bye