There once was a mother.
She was a very busy mother - as most mothers are.
On this one night, she looked at the clock.
It was getting late.
She yelled, "Time for bed! Get your pajamas on - your teeth brushed - your face and hands washed - your hair brushed - GET IN BED," she was using her drill-sergeant voice!
She walked down the hallway near her little son's bedroom.
She stopped.
It hit her.
"Son, " she stuck her head in his room, "Have you had a shower lately?"
The son, in a jovial voice, said, "Not since Monday, Mom."
The busy mother took in a deep breath and hung her head.
Could it really be possible?
Was he telling the truth?
Think back - think, think ... she frantically thought to herself.
Yes - he was right.
"Okay - GO GET IN THE SHOWER!" she raised her drill-sergeant voice and waited in the hallway to see if her son would come running.
He did.
On the upside ... The mother is a very busy mother. The mother is also a very lucky mother. Lucky .... that her son has not yet realized that a mother that does not insist that her son have a bath or shower for five days ---- is normally viewed as miserable mother. She hopes the boy will continue to be oblivious - at least until she, one day soon - hopefully ... gets her pathetic act together. (*sigh*)