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I'm driving Logan to work, because...hey! I was hit while driving Logans car on Tuesday night. But that's not why we're functioning as a one car family. That's because on Wednesday our second car died as well.

2009, I respectfully ask for my money back. You are not working out for me.

Logan likes to get to work early. So early you'd think he didn't work as a senior art director but was instead a dairy farmer, or the doughnut guy, or perhaps the newspaper delivery guy, or a doctor (without the pay).

This morning he dragged me out of bed at 6:00 to drive him over to the office. As we pulled up I saw that the building and lot were totally empty. I kind of rolled my eyes, because only a robot gets to work at this hour, voluntarily.

And Logan yelled out, "First!"

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[Elizabeth]

First!

(I'm with Logan on this one - I love being the first one in.)

[Tracie]

You got to love him for that! Life is never dull with him around, is it? He's great.

[Grace]

I must say that when I was working in an office and we had flexible hours that I loved going into work early as well. I could make and consume the first pot of fresh coffee and enjoy it while reading my emails without anyone bothering me. But truthfully now that I'm home with my kids? I'd tear my husband apart if he made me wake up at the crack of dawn to drive him into work.

[Aisha]

That is just... wrong. I have to be at work at 8 once a week for the rest of the quarter, and I'm already trying to figure how to properly protest my suffering. It can't be that hard to draw eyes on my eyelids and work that way, right?

[Lisa]

You are a very good wife, Melissa. A very good wife.

[Dawn]

You are a better wife than me. I think if I had to choose between getting up at 6am and having no car, I'd seriously consider going without a car! Of course, I didn't get to bed until 3am last night (thank you very much, 17 month old sleep resister), so maybe if I'd gone to bed like a normal person, I'd have a more rational response!

Sorry 2009 has been such a pain for you.

[Lora]

I, too, am married to a robot. My husband was at work at 5am this morning. On the day we are leaving for vacation no less.

[Rebecca]

Haha... I will never be the first one at work. One guy gets here at 5am!

[bridget]

what a silly robot:)

[MelissaS]

I had to because I have to take the car to the collision shop.

Weeeeeee!

[Aine]

My husband wakes up early to do yoga, and runs 2 miles to work at around 7. We're also a one-car family, partly because I work only about 2 miles from home, too. (But I don't run there.)

[Kelli Taylor]

At least he's yelling "first" and not "last" as my husband often does as a senior AD at an agency that shall remain nameless in Southfield MI! :)

[Karl]

For 7 years, in the 90's, I got up at 3:30 AM, at the office by 4-ish, an hour in the exercise room, and was at my desk before 6. That gave me a solid hour of uninterrupted work time before the second person showed up.

I don't need to do that any more because the commute is down the steps into the back basement office, and there's nobody around to bother me with a zillion questions.

[Kelli Taylor]

Hum...not sure if my comment was clear, I meant "last" as in last out of the building at night! :)

[Hayley]

I used to get up at 4 am to make the hour and twenty minute drive to work at 5. I didn't get home until 7 pm every night.

I *NEVER* got to yell first. I no longer work there.

[Also Melissa]

But wait...you were hit. I'm assuming you're okay and the car must have made it out partially okay. Right?

[abi]

Sure, he's a robot. But at least he's a HILARIOUS robot.

[De in D.C.]

LOL @ Kelli Taylor's comment. I totally thought she meant her husband was always the last to work (no, that would be me). Mine is always at the office by 6:30 and scoffs at me when I complain about people trying to schedule meeting at 9am. Of course, he isn't the one trying to get the kid off to school in the morning; bus comes about 8:40 so there is no way I could be in the office by 9 unless I left my 8yo home alone in the mornings. I don't think so!

[Stephanie]

I'd like 2009 to give me my money back too... It's been a real dick so far!

[Susie]

Heh. I'm married to that guy too.

[reen]

I'm with Kelly Taylor's husband: I'm the last one in and always the last one out. I did LOL, though, before she explained...I'm totally going to come in on Monday and yell "LAST!"

[Julie]

My husband is definitely not a morning person...if he's at his desk by 9:00am, it's a GOOD day!!lol He complains bitterly when he has early meetings...leave the house at 7:00am, who does that for goodness sake!!lol

[MelissaS]

He leaves late too most of the time. The work tends to expand the available space.

Also I think he worked at that firm in Southfield too.

[Linda]

He's like Clark Griswold arriving at Walley World. "First ones here!"

[andrea]

Standing in line for that do-over myself...

[Suebob]

I am ready to stab 2009 in the neck with a steak knife and put it out of all of our misery. It started with suck and has continued sucking with a suckiness previously unknown.

[mythoughtsonthat]

Now that? Just made me laugh! My husband is totally the same....

[Phil]

Logan suggested we do a run one morning. I looked at him like he was insane. Run in the morning?! Lunatic. The morning is usually my bedtime. I'd run at 9pm though, if he's up for it.

[kris]

my husband is getting up at 4:40am and is at work by 6am...in another couple weeks he will be getting up at 3:30am and getting to work by 4:30 or so... this is 7 days a week... he works at a race track and has horses and a business so the horses have to get done before the business opens at 8am. i better never have to drive him to work.

[Lindsay]

Whenever I have to be on the road really, really early for something... like a trip to the airport to catch an early flight, I am always amazed by all the people out and about. No matter what, as much as I'd love to be a morning person, it isn't gonna happen.

Now I do remember driving to high school 20+ years ago and going early enough to get a parking place in the front row... and I believe we actually shouted 'front row!' It was a weird badge of honor.

Now that I think about it, maybe I do understand Logan... a tiny bit.

[Chelsey]

This made me laugh out loud. I would probably be tempted to push my husband out of the car at that moment and then go get a doughnut.

[Kate @ http://lipstickdaily.com]

My husband, before our twins who are now 5, spent the first 15 years of marriage getting up at 4:45am. I would have my butt in seat by 5:15. We lived and worked in Manhattan, and at that time of day it was a 4 minute cab ride. I always new the security guards very well, because I was the first one in AND last one out... usually leaving between 9 and 11pm. We would totally sleep in on Sat and Sun to catch up... ahhh, to sleep until noon! Not so much any more with my sons waking up at 6:45.

I finally came to realize that yes, as much as I would give, work would happily receive. I'm glad I did it, but my Lord, there is NO WAY I would want to leave before the kids got up and come home after they went to bed.

[Elaine at Lipstickdaily]

Yeah . . . I would be the early one to the office, too . . . if I didn't have to get up and get the kids ready for the day while HUBBY gets ready for the day . . . .

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[Funkidivagirl]

You are a good wife, for sure!

[G-]

2009 is a sadistic creep. I want a restraining order.