Lunch break from the 2025 Women’s Convention at a New York Marriot. Time travel has allowed women from all ages to come to the conference. Unfortunately, due to the massive influx of people, all cafés and restaurants surrounding the Marriot are extremely crowded. Women are forced to share booths to get a possible bite to eat. Two women, Vivie Warren, a thoroughly modern turn-of-the-century career woman, and Léa de Lonval, an older, albeit still stunning, stylish French courtesan from 1920, are sharing a booth. Unfortunately for the other customers of the café, they had begun discussing the topic of Vivie’s mother, Mrs. Kitty Warren.
Léa: My dear, you must cut your mother some slack, it is a completely respectable profession. Just look at how …show more content…
Little did they know it was extremely crowded and there were not any empty booths or tables.
Edna: People just don’t seem to understand how hard it is to be a mother!
Charlotte: I know, it’s really a full-time job raising a child.
Edna: And I didn’t even ask for this. I was just some rebellious 19-year-old who got married to annoy my parents and then all of a sudden I’m tasked with the raising of two, albeit wonderful, little boys. It’s so overwhelming to have the entire shaping of another human on your shoulders.
Charlotte: Here, here. I wish I could say the same thing about my daughter, the wonderful part. She’s always been such a troublemaker, even during my pregnancy, I was sick the whole time. And I want to take good care of her and I want to be a good mother but she just makes it so hard! She gets bad grades in school and is always fighting with the other children and even fighting with her teachers, for heaven’s sake.
When they arrived in the café, they quickly realized that the only room in the café was in a booth already partially occupied by two arguing women. Exchanging a glance of shared awkwardness, they approach the
Léa: My dear, you must cut your mother some slack, it is a completely respectable profession. Just look at how …show more content…
Little did they know it was extremely crowded and there were not any empty booths or tables.
Edna: People just don’t seem to understand how hard it is to be a mother!
Charlotte: I know, it’s really a full-time job raising a child.
Edna: And I didn’t even ask for this. I was just some rebellious 19-year-old who got married to annoy my parents and then all of a sudden I’m tasked with the raising of two, albeit wonderful, little boys. It’s so overwhelming to have the entire shaping of another human on your shoulders.
Charlotte: Here, here. I wish I could say the same thing about my daughter, the wonderful part. She’s always been such a troublemaker, even during my pregnancy, I was sick the whole time. And I want to take good care of her and I want to be a good mother but she just makes it so hard! She gets bad grades in school and is always fighting with the other children and even fighting with her teachers, for heaven’s sake.
When they arrived in the café, they quickly realized that the only room in the café was in a booth already partially occupied by two arguing women. Exchanging a glance of shared awkwardness, they approach the