We’re At Dad’s That Week

White lies. We all tell them for myr­iad rea­sons: To spare a friend’s feel­ings, to avoid becom­ing embroiled in con­tro­versy, to keep a loved one out of trou­ble … There are times when white lies are appro­pri­ate and harm­less. And other times when the truth must be told, no mat­ter how bru­tal or how seri­ous the consequences.

So today’s Post of the Day Award goes to Dual Mom, a self-described “mom to three, grad­u­ally learn­ing how to be the per­son I want to be.” For the past nine years, she has shared cus­tody of her chil­dren with their father, hence her site’s title.

On Christ­mas morn­ing, Dual Mom was decked out in her “Christ­mas pj’s” and the presents were under the tree, but her kids were spend­ing Christ­mas with their father, so the house eerily quiet and every­thing felt “wrong.” Dual Mom decided to share her Christ­mas Eve morn­ing expe­ri­ence with the dri­ver of a car that came “fly­ing up” behind her and then had “to force­fully brake to avoid hit­ting me. I guees­ti­mate she was prob­a­bly doing about 50km over the speed limit.” As Dual Mom watched in her rearview mir­ror, she could see the driver’s “hands are going and she’s talk­ing on her cell phone and she’s cran­ing her neck out her side win­dow to see if there’s an oppor­tu­nity to pass me, … ” It’s an unpleas­ant and nerve-wracking predica­ment in which every dri­ver has found him/herself at one time or another.

You will have to read Merry Christ­mas Y’all your­self to appre­ci­ate Dual Mom’s descrip­tion of the entire sequence of events. Even­tu­ally, she found her­self speak­ing with a police offi­cer to whom she “briefly con­sid­ered” telling a white lie. After all, as she told her­self, “We all make mis­takes right? We’ve all dri­ven faster than we should and we’ve all been in a hurry to get somewhere.”

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Dual Mom. She responded with integrity, opt­ing to “do the right thing.” She also shared a com­pelling vignette with her read­ers, remind­ing them that actions have con­se­quences for a rea­son. After read­ing today’s Post of the Day, I think you’ll agree that the answer to her ques­tion — “Is it evil of me that I derived a lit­tle bit of plea­sure know­ing [that]?” — is “no.”

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