Happy Mothers’ Day
Today is Mothers’ Day in Shalampax. As in many countries around the world, Shalampaxians reflect today on everything that their mothers have done for them.
Shalampaxians are often perceived as heartless. That may be a valid accusation throughout most of the year, but it’s definitely not true on Mothers’ Day.
In some countries, people often get by with a superficial offering on this day. They might give their mothers a greeting card or some flowers and leave it at that. In those countries, moms consider themselves lucky if they get breakfast in bed. And, when adult children move to another city, a phone call may be the most a mother can hope for—if that.
Those empty gestures don’t suffice here in Shalampax.
Here, if our mother is still alive, a call to our lawyer is obligatory in preparation for Mothers’ Day. By tradition, the maternal portions of the lawsuits that virtually all of us have filed against our mothers and fathers for the neglect, pain and suffering that Shalampaxian parents invariably inflict on their children are held in abeyance for the 24 hours of Mothers’ Day. That’s just the kind of loving people we are.
Happy Mothers’ Day. Call your lawyer.
