Mommy Got a DUI: A Kid's Guide To Getting Around On The Bus (Signed Copy)

Mommy Got A DUI: A Kid's Guide To Getting Around On The Bus... Transportation Solutions For The Post-License Household

Since Dad went away, Mommy has been trying. Her drinking problem, from the children, she hid... until the evening that produced the paperwork that produced this book. Now there is no license. There is, however, a bus system. This book covers the bus system. It covers routes and schedules and the general experience of getting from point A to point B via public transit in a household that has recently had a licensing situation. It is a practical guide. It is a guide that was written because a specific event happened. The event is not glossed over. The bus map is, however, provided.

This illustrated adult parody book handles family dysfunction in the illustrated children's book format that has always been the most honest vehicle for it: cheerful artwork, age-appropriate-seeming narration, and an underlying situation that adults recognize immediately and that the format makes simultaneously more and less uncomfortable. Mommy got a DUI. The bus is reliable. The book documents the transition from one transportation model to the other with the specific grace of something that finds the comedy without losing the truth.

This Book IS For:

• Adults who grew up in households where "making do" was the operating philosophy and humor was the survival mechanism
• Fans of dark comedy that uses the children's book format to say things adult formats find harder to say directly
• Anyone who has ever had to explain a complicated family situation to someone younger using the most careful available language
• Gift-givers who know someone who has ridden the bus as a direct consequence of a family member's choices

This Book Is NOT For:

• People currently navigating a very recent and very personal version of this situation who are not yet at the bus-schedule humor stage
• MADD representatives who would prefer this subject be addressed in a strictly solemn register
• Readers who need all illustrated family stories to trend toward recovery, redemption, and restored driving privileges
• Anyone who has given someone a ride home from the courthouse recently and has not had enough distance yet

Appropriate For:

• Gag gifts for the friend who has navigated this situation in their own family and has earned the right to laugh about it
• White elephant exchanges where the group is close enough that this lands as recognition rather than judgment
• Gifts for anyone who is processing their own family chaos and needs confirmation that others have processed theirs
• Anyone who has taken public transit as a direct result of someone else's evening decisions

Why Buy This

The bus is actually quite reliable in most metropolitan areas and this information is undersold. For roughly the cost of an Uber that Mommy can no longer order on her own account, you get a book that documents the full transportation situation with cartoon art and the cheerful pragmatism of someone who has made peace with the bus. The bus goes places. The bus keeps a schedule. The bus does not have a license to lose. These are advantages the book correctly identifies.

Family situations are complicated. Some of them become DUI situations. DUI situations become bus situations. Bus situations become books that make the people who have been in them laugh in a specific way that releases something. That specific laugh is the whole point of this book. The bus route is a bonus. Mommy is doing her best. The bus is helping. The book documents it.