But, I did it and I will admit it. I have hurt my sister. Hurt her bad. I didn't mean to. You see, I didn't call her on her 50Th birthday. Or I hadn't called her before 8 p.m. before my brother-in-law called me and reamed me out. I hadn't called earlier, because I was convinced my sister was doing something wonderful that I had been excluded from, and I didn't want to know about it. In actualtilty she was doing NOTHING, with no phone calls from ANYONE including B-I-L or our brother or her best friend, friends of any sort and only got one birthday card. She became very upset. Margaret called B-I-L and he called me. Reamed, hung up on me. I started calling my sister, and I do mean calling. She wouldn't answer. About an hour later (making me drive dangerously in the meantime) she finally answered. She asked me why I hadn't called. I didn't tell her the truth, I thought that would only make things worse for her and so, lamely told her I had been house cleaning. She didn't want to see me the next day but I saw her the next. She is really hurt. This may effect her the rest of her life. I can only fix a little of this. I gave her a blank card with a handwritten apology, she looked at it, and said she didn't want an apology card, she wanted a birthday card.
So I'm going to get a birthday card, a lot of birthday cards, as many as I can find that are appropriate for her and then I'm going to mail them so she gets one a day. Hopefully this will make up a little for my stupidity.
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