With junior infants to second class pupils returning to school this week, self-proclaimed “full-time single mammy” Mary Kinsella was “only fuckin delighted to get the little bastards outta me hair.” With her two infants gone for the day, Mary can finally get back to smoking and texting in her nuggets of social commentary to various day time tv chat shows.
“Well me Facebook does say “Full-Time Mammy” in the job section but it’s not supposed to be actually full-time like. It’s already the hardest job in the world without havin no babysitters….I mean schools open to dump the fuckers…sorry, the centre of me universe into.”
I asked Mary if she now had a newfound appreciation of how demanding it is to home school whilst working from home, and also how challenging the education profession is where, instead of one or two children, teachers can be in charge of 20-30 at a time.
“Nah sure the teachin part is a piece of piss, I just leave them in front of the tablet with a bottle of Coke and bags crisps all day. It was the fact the kids were at home all day killing each other that did me head in. How many fuckin holidays to teachers get already for fucks sake, the taxes on me fags and booze pay their fuckin wages!”
Now that Mary has her mornings and afternoons free again, I queried her on what she would now do with this precious commodity of her time.
“Well I have already taken up online classes in oil painting and flower arranging…ah only messin, back on the morning cocktails and joints for me yahoo!”
