SIX TO EIGHT DAYS

A few weeks ago I went to the bookstore to buy a recommendation titled The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. They did not have any in stock so I asked the store to order it. They said it would arrive in about six to eight days. I didn't hear from them until this Wednesday. I'm not even joking. Half way through a crippling contraction the bookstore calls me to tell me my book is in and would I like to come pick it up. I do not recall, exactly, my response but it was enough to make the nurse drop her clipboard.