Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Short Moments of Freedom


Cartoon coma

Symptoms: shoulders relaxed, head slightly tilted backwards, breathing slowed down, winking non-existent

Duration: depending on the state of the J-O-B, from 20 min to 10 hours

Coming out line: ‘I gotta pee!’


Commercial break coma

Symptoms: dropped jaw; involuntary hand gestures; involuntary repetition of line ‘I want this, I want this, I want this’; involuntary hopping on and off the sofa

Duration: 3 min

Coming out line: ‘Santa is gonna give me all this for my birthday’

Ice cream coma

Symptoms: eyes flickering left and right for signs of alien invaders stealing ice cream cones from innocent children minding their own business; rapid movements of the tongue (see symptom one); blueberry-flavored burps

Duration: not enough if mama is shopping for new jeans, too long if mama needs to enter the glistening shop with the ‘no ice cream’ sign

Coming out line: ‘Look at my tongue – it’s blue!’




Goofy mama coma

Symptoms: uncontrollable giggling and fake pleas to ‘stop it’; profuse sweating; violent hiccups

Duration: depending on mama’s current medication

Coming out line: ‘Is that why Daddy doesn’t live with us anymore?’






P.S. No children were harmed during the writing of this post but the author of this post holds no responsibility for the possibility of an identified amount of brain cells that could have been harmed by reading this piece. Peace.

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