The Woman Who Frightened Me

Today I droppped my kid off at daycare.

There was a woman at the front desk, with a toddler continually tugging on her shirt while she tried to have a conversation.

"Just a minute. Hon, just a minute. Just a minute, sweetie, mama's talking. Sweetie, you need to be patient. Just a minute. Just a minute, baby. Just a minute..."

If that was my kid, he would have tugged on my shirt twice, and then wound up headfirst in the fish tank. But that's just me.

She had another smaller child on her hip, drooling all over himself, and when she swung back around to the receptionist, she looked to be about 11 months pregnant.

She looked like an opossum.

And I thought to myself, "Holy crap", and my ovaries shrunk up to the size of pinheads.

That is all.