Mother

24 hour long shifts

1825 consecutive days

No vacation

No sick leave

No lunch times

No 15 minute breaks

No pay

No option to submit a two week notice

Failure to show up may result to arrest

Has only two hands and wonders why evolution is not doing its job.

May not suddenly decide “this is not working” and decide to sell, “though she might like to at times”.

Knows that she has done her job properly when her children:

Reject everything she stands for.

Are only willing to share transmissible diseases and her age with others.

Only come home to eat, to borrow money, or to cry about their losses.