Neighbor Kids

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…)

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