I came home after an eighteen-hour shift to find my daughter asleep. A few hours later, I tried to wake her—but she wouldn’t respond. When I confronted my mother, she shrugged and said my daughter had been “annoying,” so she gave her pills to make her quiet.

I came home after an eighteen-hour shift, my body aching, my mind foggy. The apartment was dark, quiet—the kind of quiet that usually feels like relief after a long night at work. My feet throbbed, my head felt like it had been wrapped in a vise. All I wanted was a few hours of rest, […]

A blonde went to work with puffy eyes

A blonde went to work with puffy eyes Her boss, concerned about his employee’s well-being, asks sympathetically, “What’s the matter?” The blonde replies, “Early this morning I got a phone call saying that my mother had passed away.” “I’m terribly sorry to hear that. Why don’t you go home for the day… we aren’t busy, […]

Number twenty-nine!

Number twenty-nine! A man is sent to prison for the first time. At night, the lights in the cell block are turned off, and his cellmate goes over to the bars and yells, “Number twelve!” The whole cell block breaks out laughing. A few minutes later, somebody else in the cell block yells, “Number four!” […]