So, I was aimlessly scrolling through Facebook the other day and came across a friend's reblog of a local news article (after heavy rains, e. coli levels rise in creeks and rivers. It's normal and goes down after a couple days. This is seriously nothing new as it happens all the damn time) and she and another friend were talking about it like it was this huge startling revelation.
Then the other friend went on about "oh my god, how did people live back then when the waters were so full of e. coli?" not taking into account the effect that farm runoff and pollution has on bacteria levels, especially the farm runoff.
And then they talked about some book the one friend was reading like they were in some kinda Live Laugh Love book club.
And as I read that, I had a startling revelation. My god. These are the moms of legend. These are the speak-to-the-manager moms you hear so much about. These are the "Kayden, Brayden, Hayden, Rayden, you be quiet or you're all in time-out!" moms. These are the homeschool-their-special-snowflake-daughter moms who spell an otherwise normal name in the most obnoxious way possible, like "Maddysynne".
And I have walked among them. I have walked among them and spoken to them and sat with them, and hung out with them, and am in the same age bracket as they are.
I have stared into the abyss, and the abyss stared back.
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