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You want to take a moment to try to get a grip on what has happened. You start to pull yourself off the floor, everything is off balance. Body parts shaking that have always been firm. There is the loud crying of a baby in the background, and some gangster rap turned up way to loud for the speakers to handle. 2 kids run into the bathroom. You realize that the boy is your 6 year old son Kyle, and the 8 year old girl is you daughter Ruth.
"He broke my Ipod!" the girl yells.
"She ate my Fruit Loops! She knows that's my favorite cereal," the boy says as he hits his sister in the arm.
"You should have come to the table, instead of sleeping in you little stain," Ruth yells, as she slaps her brother in the face.
"You yell, "Stop it both of you! I'm trying to think! While the baby in the background screams louder
As you try to figure out what is going on your 16 year old daughter Joan bursts in, "Mom your dipshit boyfriend's dog raided the trashcan in my bathroom, ate my tampon and barfed it up in the living room. You have to clean it up! I'm not touching it it's gross.
3 more kids rush into the room, Kevin age 10, Connie age 14, and Vicki age 15. Vicki says, "Mom you got to hurry up and make our lunches or we will be late for school again."
"I want peanut butter," says Kevin.
"I want baloney," Connie demands.
"I want a tuna sandwich! yells Kyle.
Your 20 year old son Ralph walks in the doorway, "Can you make these brats shut the fuck up? My hangover is killing me. By the way you need to change the baby.
All the commotion is giving you a headache. You touch the mirror in the bathroom to see if you can get back to your old life but no avail. You realize that if you do not get out of there in 15 minutes you will miss your bus for work, at McDonald's. You have been late 4 times this month and the boss threatened to fire you if you are late one more time. Your head is about to explode, and you decide...............
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