Thursday, April 26, 2007

If your mother was a werewolf, what would you do?


What if your mother became a viscious werewolf when the full moon's light spreads across the sky? Imagine: the excess hair growth, deadly claws replacing her painted fingernails, yellow eyes, a foaming mouth and one bad attitude.


What would you do? What could you do?


Clearly you would have a moral struggle in killing her. Most of the time, she's a pretty darned good mom. It's only every full moon that she's a rampaging werewolf who will kill anything in her path. Even you.


Perhaps you'd look for an antidote. Maybe you'd start making some silver bullets. Maybe you'd tell your dad and he'd say, 'I always knew something was up with that bitch...' Perhaps you'd lock her in a cage right before every full moon and then feed her several pounds of steak.


But, your mother is a werewolf! She wants human flesh. So the next question you have to ask yourself is this: while she's locked up, would you kill a human in order to sate her appetite. You don't want to see her unhappy. You want to please your mother, even in her altered state.


Or would you let her take a nibble out of your hand, so that you too could become a werewolf and join her in doing werewolf things?


These are all questions one needs to ask in the event one's mom turns into a werewolf.