The Sin of Impatience

On Saturday, I learned about how nonconstructive my impatience/time-consciousness can be to William sometimes. During the morning, I bought us tickets to a fun play for the evening. It had great reviews & a wonderful story-line. At the time, William only had one ride & was planning on being home by 3pm. No problem. We could enjoy "Butterflies are Free" in Walnut Creek at 8pm. All this changed within 2 hours. William got another ride & wasn't going to be back in the office until 7pm...when the theater doors opened. He told me he would call when he was driving back to the office so I could meet him there.

Around 6:45, I hadn't heard from him so what did I do?! I started calling him...as if that would get him there faster or something? First impatient mistake. It went straight to voicemail. So did the other two times. He called me 10 minutes later to tell me he was already at the office but had to finish paperwork. He didn't want me waiting in my car so he was timing it out. Being me & in a rush to make it to the play at least 30mins before 8pm-- I jumped in my car to head over-- ignoring his request to heat up his dinner one more time. Second impatient mistake. So I got there with his semi-warm dinner & clothes, and then waited for a few more moments (when I should have been waiting by the microwave) before he came out.

It was a small venue & we already had great seats (although I didn't think long enough to realize this) so we actually just waited around for 20 minutes before being seated. We found free parking walking distance from the playhouse too. It was a fabulous, well-acted play. We laughed a ton. A great evening, only dampened by my impatience. William was gracious in forgiving me & I was sad that I hurt him by not trusting his plan & timing. It really all worked out just fine & we had fun. I just also learned that it's good to be timely, but not at expense of my husband & his plan. I was no help in our problem whatsoever. And it was pointless to stress. I'm pretty sure this is just the beginning of my learning curve. I wish learning was easier. Annoying!!