Excerpt from Mommy Poisoned Our House Guest (Shenan CB Leaver): There's a Stranger in Mommy's Bed
excerpt from Mommy Poisoned Our House Guest
There's a Stranger in Mommy's Bed
Sometimes Mommy gets really
tired. She says that working mothers reach proportions of exhaustion that
exceed the imagination. In such cases, what they say and do has little resemblance
to commonsense. I guess that must be right if I judge by my mommy.
For example, let me tell you what
happened to her one weekend. Friday evening after a long and frustrating, to
say nothing of exhausting, week at work, she fell asleep on the living room
sofa. (She does that a lot. She says she is going to watch television, but she
never does. She just stares at the screen for a few minutes and then topples
over. I have never seen her watch a whole television show like my siblings and
I do.)
Anyway, she did her frequent act
of screen staring and toppling over on the Friday evening I am talking about.
My daddy, of course, could not wake her up; he never can when she topples over
asleep. So, my sister found her asleep on the couch on Saturday morning.
“Mom, wake up!” she said.
“Huh?” Mommy struggled to bring
herself back into the world of the living. It really is not very easy to wake
up Mommy.
“Mom, Mom! You’re on the couch!
Why aren’t you in bed?”
Mommy tried groggily to recall
where she was and why.
“Oh, because when I tried to go to bed, there was someone
in my bed,” Mommy mumbled and turned over to go back to sleep.
That was a scary thought! My
sister crept cautiously into Mommy’s bedroom to see who or what was in the bed.
“Mom, Mom!” My sister had come
back and was shaking Mommy, trying to get her to wake up. It is very, very hard
to wake up Mommy.
“That’s Dad in the bed!” my
sister told her.
“Oh,” Mommy mumbled and turned
over to go back to sleep again.
“Mom,” my sister asked with a
tone of great surprise. “If you thought there was a stranger in your bed, why
didn’t you call the police instead of simply choosing another place to sleep?”
Conclusion:
When
you are tired, you may not see things as they really are.
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