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Government officials and those who remember the event, well, seem to agree that the boiling point, at least in
the Smith house, occurred on a Sunday morning on the 12th of April. The location was Cory's room. Cory's pit. Cory's
revolting cesspool. Mary Ann Smith, the mother of a sloth-like, ignorant bastard son, saw the unearthly mess Cory
had made out of his room. The floor was sticky and covered with clothes, food, and garbage. The walls were covered
with posters of bad rock bands and female underwear models for department store catalogues, attached via duct tape.
In the corner of the room, a lice-infested rat was feasting off the carcass of a dead rat. But worst of all was
the room's stench, so foul and so putrid that it could send a slaughterhouse cleaner running for cover.
At that moment Ms. Smith went ballistic. This wasn't just a mother getting angry over her child's messy room, this
was a mother losing what was left of her sanity over her child's filthy room. She could not believe her once promising
life had come to this. Long ago, her life had been on the right track. She had an excellent grades, an internship
at a real estate firm, and an overall positive outlook on life at age 16. But then, out of some crazy phenomenon
of nature, for some reason Mary Ann fell in love with a 40-year-old booze hound named Vladimir. Theirs was a forbidden
love, she an innocent child of upper middle-class background, he a middle-aged married alcoholic man who lived
in a cheap apartment. Sure, it was odd, but to some of the more romantic among us, it might have been beautiful.
That is, until he got her pregnant, divorced his wife, and killed himself the day Mary Ann gave birth to their
son. Then it was just funny!! But not for Mary Ann....
However, she decided to give herself one last chance at having a life, by finding someone else to raise her new
son Cory. She chose Vladimir's senile mother. Big mistake. It should have been obvious to Mary Ann that Vladimir's
mother didn't know the first thing about raising children, since she had raised Vladimir. But in addition to that
she was also a bit crazy. Every day she would sit in her rocking chair, facing the apartment door, making sure
"the bad man" didn't come, while little Cory would eat jars marshmallow creme for dinner. One of the
few times when she took Cory out of the house, it was to Sleazy Bob's Kiddie Funland, a sort of Chuck-E-Cheeses
ripoff. One of the main attractions was thing called "The world's largest ball pit", which was a 30-feet-deep
tub of those plastic colored balls. Technically, it wasn't really the world's largest ball pit (that one was in
Germany), but it was large enough to make most parents feel uneasy about letting their two-year-old child play
in it. But nevertheless, while Vladimir's mother stared frightfully at a man in a panda costume, little naive Cory
climbed into the giant pit.
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