REGINA, SK – Greeting card writer and longtime mother, Cindy Watros, spent much of her Mother’s Day, the annual event in which children express gratitude for all their mothers have done for them, hoping her adult son Steven would forget to call.
“I did a few things, watched some TV, made an omelette, but most of the time I was staring at my phone, dreading the moment I would hear its shrill cry,” said Watros while shuddering.
Watros suffered a close call around 2 p.m. when the phone did begin to ring. Fortunately, it was just a telemarketer who wished to sell her wrapping paper. Watros stayed on the line for well over 30 minutes, but did not end up purchasing anything.
“I don’t have call waiting!” she said.
Watros maintained her desire to avoid her son’s call does not make her a bad mother.
“This is my day, and I should be able to enjoy it. I mean, if he did call, sure it would start with the usual ‘Happy Mother’s Day Mom’ stuff but inevitably we’d spend an hour talking about his worm collection or his plans to buy a used 1999 Honda Civic, and frankly life is too short.”
Watros breathed a final sigh of relief and headed for bed around 11 p.m. Unfortunately, immediately before press time, she received an email from ‘jimbelushifan@yahoo.ca’, her son’s address, promising to come up and visit this weekend to make up for the failure to call.
