If You're Interested... WC 218

If You're Interested Don't Say You're Not!

WC 218

Max stood at the back door. “Let me explain why I'm late.”

"I'm not interested,” I said, then crossed my arms, turned, and stomped out of the kitchen. I had had a crazy day and didn’t need one other thing…

I know it was wrong of me, and it did set a bad example.

What if I had something really important to share and he, following my example, folded his arms and said, “I'm not interested”, and stomped out of the room?

I was interested. He was two hours late. Where had he been?

I didn’t know how to back out of my statement and get an answer. Seemed like I had boxed myself in.

I could hear Max head down the hall toward the bedroom. And then the door slammed! I knew I should address that too, but I had said I wasn't interested, so how could I?

Oh, I'm sure this will all shake out; a hundred years from now it won’t matter anyway, and we’ll have a good laugh about it. Well, not the laugh part.

As God is my witness, I do know right from wrong, and what I did was wrong.

Oh, it might have been okay to say to my husband under certain circumstances, but not to my twelve-year-old son!

Hard lessons.