Not Going To Work

Vacation! My yearly winter vacation is underway. And, what does a truck driver do on vacation? Well, as typically is the case for this truck driver, I’ll be driving. But not far—just a quick trip to take my wife to the airport. Yep, I’m getting rid of her for a week.

Due to my job, and a few other factors, separate vacations happen quite frequently for us—but usually not on the same week. We didn’t really plan it that way this time either; it’s just the way it worked out. So, while she is jetting around the country, I’ll be here just taking care of the dogs. And working on, well, stuff. After all, what is the point of a vacation if a guy can’t get a few things done?

I know, I look at things a little differently than most. But having a job that requires me to be gone most of the week, I look forward to having some free time at home—to work on things that I want to do. And I have a busy schedule lined up: recording, writing, and fixing a few things around the house.

You’d think that staying busy would keep me from thinking about my wife being gone but as I know from experience, that doesn’t really work. I’m not sure what the difference is, some weeks, I don’t see her from Monday to Friday anyway, but there definitely is a difference. When I was younger, and managing a restaurant, I’d tend to fire people when she was gone. I no longer do things of that nature (because I do not manage anything these days) but the older I get, the more I miss her when she goes away. I suppose that’s a good thing.

In the future, we may have to reconsider this separate vacations thing. But for now, that’s the way it is. Maybe next year we can try pretending to be normal. Yeah, that probably won’t work. ~

Bruce A. Borders is the author of more than a dozen books, including: Inside Room 913, Over My Dead Body, The Journey, Miscarriage Of Justice, The Lana Denae Mysteries, and The Wynn Garrett Series. Available in ebook at www.amazon.com/Bruce-A.-Borders/e/B006SOLWQS and paperback on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million. Bruce A. Borders is a proud member of Rave Reviews Book Club.