By Theresa Holden
After community college I get a job babysitting all the grimy-faced neighbor kids on the wrong side of town. They’re a rough crowd. Every one of their households has a utility drawer filled with expired medication, marijuana dust ground into the couch cushions, and an unloaded gun on the highest shelf. I provide adult supervision, which is unnerving. I was not necessarily the most responsible kid in the car on a Saturday night. For example, since kids make me nervous, I might pop a couple Benerol to take the edge off. Benerol is a doctor prescribed headache medication specifically designed for female physiology. It makes you the kind of sleepy where all you want to do is stay up and talk. In one word: fantastic. (more…)