This has been a day of patience.

I had to be patient this morning and felt like the morning hours were wasted.  I was to spend the day with my little sister, who didn’t wake until around eleven.   Which, I guess, has become the new COVID normal, but I couldn’t help but feel let down for some reason.

Well, truthfully, both of my siblings have always been nightingales.   I’m not sure why I thought that today would be different.

Around one, I was getting to be pretty hungry.  I had only had a banana for breakfast because I was promised a big lunch from Texas Roadhouse, which didn’t happen.   I wasn’t notified until we were driving along that we were going to a Mexican place.

Which was okay.    The cheesy chicken rice thing is pretty good, but it wasn’t what I was promised.   Nor did I really have any input into it.

But, whatever.   Okay.

I didn’t want to lose sight of my ultimate present —  having my obese sister walk with me.   Specifically, since I thought this would be a somehow special day, that she would put in my daily personal goal of 10,000 steps.

In roughly four hours, she reached 6000 and called it.   That was enough.  Her legs were getting tired.  It was getting late, although it wasn’t even 5pm yet.  She was just done and, again, I had no say.   But, I didn’t feel like it was my place to push her any further.

I mean, I tried in a roundabout way, but it didn’t take.  I simply couldn’t argue that I wasn’t done and she had to stick with me.  I

No, that came out a little later at Starbucks.

With her Starbucks points, she ordered us each a drink.    She got the violet drink, which I have no idea what it is.  I asked for the mango dragonfruit drink and got the dragon drink.

It wasn’t an error on the part of the speaker.    That’s what she called it and that’s what she got.

I know this is a first-world problem, but I just kind of shut down.
The dragon drink actually didn’t taste that bad, but it’s not what I wanted.   Moreover, I had no idea of the calorie count.  I wasn’t in the position where I could just look either.

For this evening’s sanity, I couldn’t bring myself to drink something that I was unfamiliar with.  Call it anorexia or whatever, I just couldn’t do it.

First, little sister accused Starbucks of making the wrong drink.
Right when she began to complain, she realized that it was her error and she pulled away.

I was okay with that.   She could have both, but she wanted to order the correct drink for me using cash instead of her freebie points and I just couldn’t have it.

A deep Darth Vader “no” came out and she instantly caved.
Okay, that was pretty cool.   It was kind of out of the movies.   I really had some Force behind that no.

And we went home.

—  Which she later poured the dragon drink out in the front yard.   So, it was a complete waste anyway.

Okay.   First world, I know.
But it just seemed a complete waste of time and a series of small disappointments that accumulated into NO.

I should know better by now.
They don’t keep up with me.   I am supposed to slow down for them.

It’s just frustrating, upsetting, and disappointing.

I try really hard not to let it get to me.    I want them to do better.   I want my sister to be healthy but it seems like the effort isn’t there.

Not everything can be solved by stomach staple.

I don’t know, but at least the day is about done – thankfully.