Have you ever joked about the “vacation” you’d get if you had to have minor surgery and needed bed rest to recover?
I made the joke to my husband the other day about how divorce and 50/50 custody was looking pretty good just so I’d get a solid three days to myself and he was appalled.
To me, that just fell in line with the kind of jokes I’ve often heard other working moms say about getting eye surgery and relishing lying in the dark recovering for two days, or having a new baby and how the 2 day hospital stay after would be a bit of a break from the other kids, or getting a gum graft and spending a couple days on the couch, not working, not talking, binging a new show.
Tell me: am I (and my friends) in the minority with these kinds of jokes? Or are they normal but only told in female company, thus my husband’s complete shock? And if so, what does that say about us (moms) versus them (dads)? Do they have an equivalent joke about getting a break?