words
to me, the two most frightening words in the world are "family emergency."
all i have to do is hear them together to make my blood run cold. i know that "family emergency" can mean different things to different people -- like to some, a family emergency might be that someone ate all the oreos without replenishing the stash -- but to me it means something really, really bad has happened. these are not words i can take lightly or use casually.
people at work have been having a lot of family emergencies lately involving parents and hospitals. even just the idea of that makes me a little nervous and a lot sad.