The Sparrow's Nest

The woman was based off several DUMB teacher aids and one of my own teachers in grade school. Oh my goodness, I almost busted my back when I fell off the swings and my stupid teacher never noticed and none of the teacher aids did either. I had the wind knocked out of me and I could not move. One brat from my class saw me fall and he didn't say anything. I sure wished he had gotten run over, but brats live forever. Anyway, the bell to end recess sounded and I literally crawled to the school, hobbled into the classroom late and the teacher didn't even see. Of course she would have if nothing was wrong and I would have been punished. The teacher aids themselves never noticed anything. While threatening students with their lives for play fighting in one corner, they missed the kid being pummeled in another. And this was off the reservation. What in the world was going on? Maybe they were rethinking their miserable lives?

I wasn't quite sure what Carrina's mother would be when she came about. After awhile, it became apparent that the woman was a single mother trying to raise a daughter who was her exact opposite. Since Carrina was soft, slow going and tender, her mother might be exasperated with her for she had things to do, people to see, food to put on the table, and her answer for everything would be based on quick, efficient and dominant. Living among Mexicans for nine years in the barrios, lots of the women I knew dressed similar to her. While lots of them were crazy, lots of them weren't and so the personality isn't based on race, but on Carrina's mother's individual circumstances, and the fact that I found it funny how their personalities bounced off each other.