One of the reasons why college kids look forward to vacations is the food. A few days before I left my friends couldn’t stop talking about the “Welcome Back” dinners their mothers were preparing.
I wasn’t able to contribute to the conversation because a home-cooked meal here means my brother and I standing over a pot of water, waiting for it to boil so we can throw our Ramen in. Sometimes if the Femme Mom is feeling domestic she’ll whip up an amazing meal, which just pisses everyone off because we know it’ll be another two week wait before we get the special food treatment again.
Unfortunately, the Femme Mom isn’t here so the Butch Mom has taken the reigns. That means handing each of us $20 for “whatever we’d like!” My sister has spent it on diapers for her daughter, my brother bought three packs of cigarettes, and my little sister got herself an iTunes card.
I “went crazy” at Wawa and got an unhealthy amount of sweets that proved to be a dire mistake. This morning I was jolted awake by shocking pains in my back molars. I looked in the mirror and saw the beginnings of a cavity or two, so I quickly made a dentist’s appointment.
I threw a big enough fit to have the office pencil me in for 10:00 a.m. Friday morning, and I learned that my dentist’s name is Olga who, the receptionist assured me, was “firm but nice.”A firm but nice dentist sounds like someone who will pull out my teeth with wrench but smile while doing it. In other words, I’m worried and might bail.