OOops! It has been forever and a day since I last posted though I have been writing them in my head. It seems like a post occurs to me a million times a day, but when my little guy has gone to sleep and I can finally post without him in my ear I suddenly have my husband in my ear. Anyway, I am sure that some of the posts will still be written over the next few days but the post I want to write today must be written today or wait for a year. I choose today! It means I will be postponing posts about floods, family, car trips, pets and customer service.
Let me start by painting a picture for you. It starts with a stressed out mother of three kids. She has a husband but really, it is mom that makes the family function. There is only one day a year that people expect anyone to make ye ole mom feel appreciated. Husband and kids know that a great way to help mom on that day would be to keep her from having to cook for them. But Dad doesn't cook and the kids are too young.... hmmm, where should we take mom? Then the answer comes to them on the radio- Red Robin! Ahh yes, Red Robin what man and his kids would turn down a burger? Sounds great! But wait, Dad thinks, what if Mom doesn't want a burger for her special day? No problem because the radio just mentioned that Mom should be getting a salad! Woohoo! Stressed out Mom will be so happy! She won't feel like Dad and kids are calling her fat when she is told to get a salad while everyone else gets a burger and fries. No way! But just in case, Dad thinks, maybe he should have a back up plan. But he still can't figure out what that back up should be- no worries! The answer just arrived in Dad's inbox! Chuck E Cheese! Yes! That is just what Mom would love! She would just be overjoyed to get to go somewhere where half the other parents don't watch their kids at all. Mom needs more yelling, more screaming and more worries about her children breaking things. Ahhh... what a dream! What a dream!
Sounds like horrible things to say or do to Mom on that one precious day, doesn't it? And yet, I really did hear an ad just like that and get an email advocating Chuck E Cheese for Mother's day! All I could do was laugh. I mean really, some restaurants should just accept that they are not going to have increased attendance for Mother's Day and some just need to figure out that if Mom wants a salad she will pick one. That ad did nothing more than increase Dad's chances of inserting his foot in his mouth when trying to be sweet. Poor guy! I hope that no man ended up in trouble for suggesting a salad to his darling wife at a burger joint! My prayer is that the mother's of the world felt genuinely appreciated today, and perhaps can feel appreciated in the days to come!
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