Prison vs. Housewife

[Guest guest]

BEING IN PRISON ~VS~ BEING A HOUSEWIFE

In prison you get three square meals a day.

At home, you cook three square meals a day and try to get

your kids to eat it.

In prison you get an hour each day in the yard to exercise

and mingle.

At home you get to clean the yard up so you can mow it so

your kids can spread more toys all over it so that you can

go out and clean it again because little Jr. can't sleep

without his latest lego creation.

In prison you get to watch TV, cable even.

At home you get to listen to your children fight over the

remote control and get treated to hours and hours of mindless

cartoons thanks to cable.

In prison you can read whatever you want and attend college

for free.

At home you get to read weekly readers starring Dick, Jane,

and Spot and worry about how to send Jr. to college and still

be able to eat for the next twenty years.

In prison all your medical care is free!

At home you have to pawn your mother's silver and fill out

trillions of papers for insurance and hope the doctor will

see you before you die.

In prison, if you have visitors, all you do is go to a room,

sit, talk  and then say good-bye when you are ready or your

time is up.

At home you get to clean for days advance and then cook and

clean up after your guests and hope that they will one day leave.

In prison you can spend your free time writing letters or just

hang out in your own space all day.

At home you get to clean your space and everyone else's space,

too, and what the heck is free time again?

In prison you get your own personal toilet.

At home you have to physically hold the bathroom door shut in

order to keep from having someone standing over you demanding

to know how long till you're done so you can do something for

them.

In prison the prison laundry takes care of all your dirty

clothes.At home you get to take care of them yourself, plus everybody

else's, and get yelled at because somebody's favorite shirt

isn't clean.

In prison they take you everywhere you need to go.

At home you take everybody else where they need to go.

In prison the guards transport all your personal effects for you

and make sure nothing is missing.

At home you have to lug around everybody else's stuff in your

purse and then wonder who went in it and took your last dollar.

In prison there are no screaming or whining children or spouses

asking you to do something else for them, or screaming at you

because you didn't.

At home...

stop me when I get to the downside of jail, will ya?