There is nothing gentle about this one.

Today’s Gratitude Item: Managing to see the humour amidst the craziness that is a typical Monday. My car pool buddy loves Mondays almost as much as I do (which is to say, not at all). This morning in the car she was bemoaning her hectic schedule. It went like this: “Meeting before school, teach five classes (no non-contacts), meeting after school”. To which, in the best poker playing tradition, I was tempted to reply: “I’ll see your meeting before school, five classes in a row, meeting after school and raise you a duty half of morning tea” (at which point I would then have yelled out “I win!”). Weirdly, I don’t think she would have found this all that funny. So I kept my *brilliant* reply to myself and just laughed on the inside.