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Picture this…

A young mother and her young daughter have a delicious tickle fight in the parking lot of Ikea while the girl’s father runs in to make some returns. As the tickle fight progresses, the daughter stops mid giggle, and, with a look that could only be described as “shock and awe,” the girl begs the mother to stop. For a second the mother witnesses the girl tremble slightly, asking “Honey, are you ok?! What’s happening!” to which the girl answers “Mom, sorry mom! Caca came out!!!!”

(Editor’s note: It always comes back to poop).

The mother bursts into laughter, much to the child’s distress, and wonders to herself, “What the HELL do I do now?”

So, the mother, with shitty child in tow, proceeds to head into Ikea but not before having to cross an entire parking lot full of disgruntled and clearly blind Ikea customers. In order to prevent her shitty child from becoming a shitty pancake on the pavement, the mother decides to pick up her child for the rest of the way. As the two approach the entrance to Ikea, the child begins to scream “Momma! Momma! It’s coming out!!! My caca ball is coming out!!!!!”

Gasp! Heads turn! Brown face turns red! Child gets scolded! Both enter the ladies room that is, thankfully, empty. Mom considers that fact a little nugget from God… to match the nugget in the child’s pants.

Once inside the safe walls of their porcelain-tiled cocoon, mom enters the forbidden zone to extract the offending item. But not before carefully and lovingly taking off her new Guess coat. After all, a black, tapered trench with puff sleeves is hard to come by at Marshalls.

First things first.

by Julieta Ramirez-Krug, California