“You’re an empty nester so I didn’t think you’d mind me calling this late …”
And so began a phone conversation I had with one of my teachers last night. Since it was past my bedtime, I had actually begun to drift off to sleep when my phone started ringing. Please understand I don’t usually answer the phone after work hours unless I really need to speak to the person calling. Since I really needed to speak to this teacher, I answered.
“Empty nester.” What an odd term. I never thought about Hub & me as being empty nesters as we never filled our nest with children in the first place. The opposite of “to fill” is “to empty.”
Hmmm …
What bothers me is the assumption that because we have no children, it’s okay to call late at night.
And that, dear tatertots, is just wrong.