Mom Runs Trains: On the weekend with dad's friends

By Brad Gosse

Mom Runs Trains On The Weekend With Dad's Friends... A Career Day Presentation With Unexpected Details

It's career day at school. The narrator is so proud of mom. Mom runs trains. On the weekend. With Dad's friends. The presentation covers what running trains involves, who the friends are, and why this activity takes up weekends specifically, and all of this information is delivered with the uncomplicated pride of a child presenting a parent's profession to a classroom that is composed of adults reading this book right now. The teacher in this book has a reaction. The classroom has a reaction. The narrator does not yet understand the reaction. This is documented.

This adult parody book takes a phrase that exists in contemporary slang and places it inside a career day presentation narrated by a child with complete innocent confidence, which is the exact format that produces the exact comedic effect this book is going for. Mom runs trains. The audience knows what that means. The child does not know what that means. The gap between those two understandings is the entire joke, and the book sustains it across every illustrated page with the specific energy of someone who found a sentence and decided to build a whole book around it. Correctly.

This Book IS For: Adults who are familiar with the contemporary meaning of "running trains" and find the career day context absolutely perfectFans of humor that operates through a child narrator's complete innocence about what they are narratingAnyone who has encountered slang in a professional or family context and had to manage their reaction carefullyGift-givers who want to hand someone a career day book about mom that will cause a specific and recognizable reactionThis Book Is NOT For: People who are not familiar with the slang meaning and will read this as a book about trains, which is not incorrect but misses the whole thingReaders who find the child narrator framing less funny than the direct approach and would prefer the book be honestAnyone in a context where "mom runs trains" would need to be explained and the explanation would be worse than the bookCareer day participants who have genuine train-related professions and feel this diminishes their industryAppropriate For: Bachelorette parties... Mom runs trains is bachelorette energy and the book understands thisWhite elephant exchanges where the title will generate the reaction before anyone touches the wrapping paperGag gifts for the friend who uses this phrase and needs to see it in illustrated career day formatAny occasion where you want a book that earns its laugh from a single phrase executed with complete narrative commitmentWhy Buy This

Career day is a school institution built on the premise that children should understand what their parents do for work. This book honors that institution. It shows up for career day. It presents mom's professional activities clearly and with illustrated pride. The classroom's reaction is not the book's problem. The book came prepared. The book did the presentation. What the adults in the room do with the information is the audience's responsibility.

Mom runs trains. The book documents it. The career day audience processes it. The narrator is proud of mom regardless. Buy it for someone who will read the title and immediately understand what's been given to them and why. That understanding is the gift. The book is just the physical form the gift takes. Mom runs trains. On the weekend. With Dad's friends. The presentation has been submitted.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09S6BF3ZS
• ISBN13: 9798415543205
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 26 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 8.5"