Too Much ... Too Fast

im in the profession of communication. if i don't communicate well with my teams then nothing is accomplished. why did i think this situation would be any different!?

april 23rd, move in day, came and went. mom, dad, and i decided that it was better for the grand b's if daddy would tell them that i was moving up here to "assist" them with anything that they needed. from what i hear that conservation didn't go very well.

april 24th, amanda smooth over day, came and went. there again was nothing to report. i thought that if i gave them a night to sleep on it then they would be more receptive to the fact that i was staying here for awhile. the female grand b says to my mother ... "we'll take care of her anyway that we can!"

wait .... take care of me. this is nothing how i have planned it to be. apparently what we have here is a failure to communicate.

april 25th ... thats today ... and after breakfast this morning ... after mom and dad has left the new apartment ... DMB has returned to the homeland, i sit here wondering if i have made the right decision. of course i have ... but will they allow me to get to know them again. has it just not been explained to them what it is that i am doing here? was the decsion just a bad one in having daddy tell them that i was here and not me? was it just too much too fast?

at breakfast this morning the male grand b told me that you should never tell a man who is leaving an auto parts store after making a purchase to have a nice day. it seemed like such an odd thing to say ... my whole retail life i had been trained to tell people to have a great day after making whatever purchase they were making in my store. no no ... not at an auto parts store according to the grand b. you see that man was spending his 10 dollars on a part that he didnt want to spend. he was spending 10 dollars ... 10 dollars that he had stuffed away from his wife that was meant for something else ... now it was being spent on a auto part that he had no intention of buying that morning when he woke up. you see that man was not going to have a nice day at all. i just smiled at the grand b. he was right ... he'd seen that man leave his auto parts store thousands of times and never did he tell them to have a nice day ... just that he was thankful for the business!