Functionally ReTodded

So today I’m sitting at my desk, planning my afternoon to the nth degree. The Dell repair guy was on his way to fix a few laptops and my backup tape guy was on the way to pickup some tapes for off-site storage and I was in the middle of ordering about 20 Blackberries and aircards, etc.

And then the wife called and said she was dropping 2doh and 3doh off at poppy and mawmaw’s house and surprising 1doh by showing up to have lunch with her.

I thought for a second and said “Why not? I’ll be there in twenty minutes.”

So I headed out and met the old lady in the lobby and wandered back to 1doh’s classroom. She wasn’t there, as it was playground time.

The kids started piling into the room and it took her a good five or more seconds to notice the huge guy sitting in the one foot tall chair, but when she did, she ran over to me and jumped in my arms and gave me a huge hug. She didn’t even notice her mother. (High five).

Anyway, 1doh was VERY excited, as was I. I hadn’t eaten a school lunch in ages, but I’d seen the menus floating around our kitchen and figured “This has to be better than when I was in school.”

Plus, every day it was Pizza, Burgers, macaroni and cheese, grilled cheese, chicken fingers, and plenty of other things I like.

Sadly, today must have been “Fuck you for surprising your kid for lunch without checking the menu day.”

Although the kids are required to take an entrée, two sides, a milk or water and a snack, parents can pretty much take whatever they want. If I wanted to, I could have just eaten a bunch of cheese, and then billed it to my kid’s account! I didn’t though.

Here were my choices:

 

Drink

Milk (chocolate, white and strawberry: all .05 percent fat. Blech. I got strawberry). At the register they said I could have gotten tea, but I was already green at that point.Entrée

- Nachos (little bag of corn chips with an icecream scoop of something that makes Taco Bell meat look Prime, as well as a tub of cheese).

- A ham and cheese wrap which I was in favor of…until I saw it.

- One of those peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that you take out of the freezer at 7am that’s ready to eat by 11am.

Sides:

Rice with some crap in it (I assumed this was the default side with the nachos

Broccoli

Black olives

 

Snacks:

Some shitty fruit cup with pretty much peach slices in syrup

A bag of carrots.

Oh, but if I wanted to drop another seventy five cents, I could get an ice cream.

 

I got:

Bag o’ nacho chips + tub ‘ cheese + tub o’ mystery meat

Pile of rice stuff

The PB&J (just in case)

Strawberry water/milk.

Cost? Four dollars.

And no, I didn’t splurge on the ice cream. The shit I ate was about 1200 calories.

Was it worth it? Of course. I love spending time with one of my kids away from the other two. And they love it too. My girls are different people when the other one isn’t around whining and pushing and fighting and grabbing at them.

But to think that I had a free Chik-fil?A coupon in the car…

Maybe Monday.