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My Mother the Self-Appointed Neighborhood Watch

Trash collection day. It’s one day my mother almost has a reason to be up at 5 am although I am quite certain the trash collectors don’t come down our block until 10 a.m. but she thinks it does.

What I continue to find amusing is that since I have moved in with her she has gradually changed her daily routine, even more so with the coronavirus as the few activities she enjoyed (bingo, the beauty school, going out…