PRISONER VS HOUSEWIFE

In prison you get three square meals a day. 
At home, you cook three square meals a day and 
try to get your kids to eat it. 

In prison you get an hour each day in the yard 
to exercise and mingle. 
At home you get to clean the yard up so you can 
mow it so your kids can spread more toys all over 
it so that you can go out and clean it again 
because little Jr. can't sleep without his latest 
lego creation. 

In prison you get to watch TV, cable even. 
At home you get to listen to your children fight 
over the remote control and get treated to hours 
and hours of mindless cartoons thanks to cable. 

In prison you can read whatever you want and 
attend college for free. 
At home you get to read weekly readers starring 
Dick, Jane, and Spot and worry about how to send Jr. 
to college and still be able to eat for the next 
twenty years. 

In prison all your medical care is free. 
At home you have to pawn your mother's silver and 
fill out trillions of papers for insurance and hope 
the doctor will see you before you die. 

In prison, if you have visitors, all you do is go 
to a room, sit, talk and then say good-bye when you 
are ready or your time is up. 
At home you get to clean for days in advance and then 
cook and clean up after your guests and hope that 
they will one day leave. 

In prison you can spend your free time writing letters 
or just hang out in your own space all day. 
At home you get to clean your space and everyone else's 
space, too, and what the heck is free time again? 

In prison you get your own personal toilet. 
At home you have to physically hold the bathroom door 
shut in order to keep from having someone standing over
you demanding to know how long till you're done so you 
can do something for them. 

In prison the prison laundry takes care of all your 
dirty clothes. 
At home you get to take care of them yourself, plus 
everybody else's, and get yelled at because somebody's
favorite shirt isn't clean. 

In prison they take you everywhere you need to go. 
At home you take everybody else where they need to go. 

In prison the guards transport all your personal effects 
for you and make sure nothing is missing. 
At home you have to lug around everybody else's stuff in 
your purse and then wonder who went in it and took your
last dollar. 

In prison there are no screaming or whining children 
or spouses asking you to do something else for them, or
screaming at you because you didn't. 
At home....stop me when I get to the downside of jail, 
will ya?