Wow I had this really elaborate explanation of expectations and was impressed. It seems that I am seeing people (me included) have this great set of expectations and then we react to how things work with them or don't work with them. And most of the time this is all in our head. So that is why I love Buddhism because there is a small hope of instead of dealing with this layer of expectation between us and reality we may actually experience life as it is.
Hmm, now to let go of my expectation that I can explain this in any way to my mother so she will stop asnwering the phone when I call with statements like "So you are at home",