The Pony's day off was Friday. He worked 11 days in a row before that, most of them 12 hours. He put a hold on a route for this week. That means he gets the same route every day. Which means you get used to it, and you get faster at it. It just so happens that regular routes have a scheduled day off. The one for this route is Monday.
The Pony is thrilled that he will also be off on Christmas Day. THEN he has asked for his day off to be the following Wednesday, because that's when Genius will be here, for one day only. They haven't seen each other for almost three years!
Anyhoo... this means that The Pony will not work more than four days in a row during this time. He says, "It's like a mini vacation!"
That doesn't mean The Pony will be lolling around eating Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies, playing computer games in bed. He will spend Monday over in Bill-Paying Town, trying to get a form he needs to submit for his reimbursement of medical bills.
It shouldn't be a problem. The orthopedic group already submitted this form three times in hope of payment from the Dept of Labor, but were rejected due to The Pony's case being slow-rolled, then denied. So they should have a copy of what they sent. It was all itemized on the statement they sent The Pony for payment, but he needs the official submission form required by the DOL. You know how government agencies are persnickety.
Anyhoo, The Pony already has a plan in case they say it will take a little while to get the copy for him. He'll go eat lunch at Steak N Shake, then go back for it!
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Three years! My four have not been together as a group since 1998, when the oldest one got married. The "black sheep" misses his family and this time I have actually managed to pin everyone down to a meeting place and time, early next year. I won't go into the reasons they have all stayed apart. I'm just happy they will be together. I'm not sure how well that will go, but they are all in their forties, so should be able to carry on as adults.
River,
Yes, once The Pony went off to college in Oklahoma, Genius was getting ready to graduate and move off to Kansas City. We'd get together at Christmas, but then the VIRUS kept Genius in Pittsburgh, his new job location, for two years. Genius could easily go without seeing The Pony, but The Pony has always tried to please his big brother. Once even offering to buy him a new tablet when Genius let his slip from his pizza-greasy hands at a school function.
All four of the boys haven't been together for about five years, since we had a retirement party for Farmer H here at the Mansion. When that girl THREW AWAY MY REAL FORK!
I hope your REUNION goes smoothly, and only the good times are remembered.
I haven't seen my one daughter in nearly 4 years! I have seen her son, but not her daughter. She just testd positive for Covid again, so looks like I will continue to avoid her! We got to see Myyoungest daughter and her son on Thanksgiving quite be accident. We were at our new place and decided to goto my sistr-in-law's house in Perry, Ga for the holiday. My daughter had bee to Tampa to pick out all the finishes on the house they are building and ended up at the same place. I would love to have a family reunion this summer.
Kathy,
No such thing as coincidences! You were meant to meet up there! Hopefully you can avoid avoiding that other daughter before 4 more years go by. Maybe even by summer.
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