Act 2, Scene 26: “Mommy and Mean Class”

TRL hauls C & E to the weekly morning music Mommy and Me class. But they are a few minutes late because C refuses to put on his jacket and E refuses to take off his pajamas. It is their Zen yin/yang program to drive TRL nuts.

TRL walks into the hallway to the class. The gym door is closed. TRL puts down C & E, takes off the diaper bag strapped to his back, takes his shoes off and begins to remove C & E’s shoes, hats and jackets. C now refuses to take his jacket off. He starts screaming his displeasure.

TRL opens the gym door. 14 mommies and their kids are in a circle, singing as they raise and lower a colorful parachute. TRL hears the teacher call out Hi C & E as he tries one more time to coax C into letting him take off his jacket. As he is doing this E walks towards the door to the gym and trips headfirst into the doorframe. TRL hears the sudden intake of the collective breath of 14 mommies, and then E starts wailing. TRL rises and picks E up to comfort him. He stands facing the lynch mob of angry moms. He is holding a screaming E in his arms and trying to hold the hand of a squirming crying C attempting to wriggle back into the sleeve of his jacket. Bad man, bad man, TRL sees in the mothers’ eyes. Mommy and Mean class for TRL.