First and foremost it’s my kids who make me laugh. Those really hard laughs that seem endless. There have been times when I’m driving that one of the kids (usually Bella-Lena) makes me laugh so hard that I have to pull over. For some reason when I laugh that hard I can’t see and can barely breathe.
Bella-Lena’s sense of haha is very sarcastic and when it’s directed at me, even funnier. Yesterday this actually happened that I had to stop the car for a second in a parking lot because I was laughing so hard I couldn’t see or breathe.
It’s one of our little traditions to get take-out on Friday nights and lately we all want different things. Sid wanted chicken nuggets from Popeyes so the girls and I were in the drive-thru to get it for him. I was telling the girls how I decided that if, because of perimenopause, my pms gets so bad, I plan on doing something about it. As in, try gummies. A very low dose. I don’t smoke pot and never really have but I’d be open to trying something.
Anyway I started the conversation just being goofy and I said “girls, in the spirit of normalcy, I think that if my pms continues to be horrid, I plan on trying some type of gummy to help keep me calm, just on the days I’m driven crazy by my hormones”.
My window was down and though I felt I was talking quiet, the Popeyes drive-thru guy thought I was saying something to him and asked for clarification. I was so embarrassed and the girls laughed at how he was thinking he was a part of my perimenopause conversation.
I quickly took the bag of food from him, red in the face because talking about pms and popping gummies is not a conversation for strangers, and pulled away. Because I was rushing to get out, roll up the window and hand the bag of food to Cordelia all at the same time, I accidently laid on the horn.
Bella-Lena pounced on the opportunity to point out my “normalcy”. How I’d involved the drive-thru guy in such a personal conversation, taking my oversharing to a whole new level and then honking the horn as I drove away. It was such a ridiculous scene, the way she painted it and I was laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe.
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