Single mother Sally and her 16-year-old son Alan could not see eye to eye.
He could not understand why he had to clean his room.
He could not understand why he had to do his laundry.
He could not understand why he had to cook his tea occasionally.
He fought his mother should do everything for him.
He could not understand why his mother could not do her job and look after him and the house at the same time.
He fought she was just making a bigger deal out of it than needed to be.
But this morning things took a strange twist.
Alan awoke in his mother's body.
Panic-stricken and frightened he ran into his own and awoke his own body.
He was hoping his mother was inside.
She opened her eyes and smiled when she saw her face palette stricken looking down at her.
She said I did not believe it would work but it has.
Alan looked at her and said I take it this was your doing.
She just smiled and said I am going to give you a piece of your own medicine.
Unto you understand how hard it is to work a job look after a house and deal with a spoiled brat like you you will be stuck in my middle female body.
Now if I remember rightly you don't get up for another hour and you expect breakfast on the table.
So I am going back to sleep you go downstairs to call me breakfast.
Alan started to complain and she just looked at him and said the more you complained the longer you stayed.
Alan had no choice but to go downstairs in his mother's body feeling dreadful and cook breakfast.
He burnt the Toast overcooked the eggs and the coffee brood was almost undrinkable.
His mother came downstairs in his body dressed and complained about the state of breakfast.
She looked at her son in his body and told him you better go upstairs shower and get dressed you've got work in an hour.
He went reading the face and told her you're telling me I've got to wash my own mother's body I've got a see my own mother naked.
She just looked at him and said my body is not that repulsive.
He stumped upstairs to get himself showered.
He shouted down 20 minutes later for his mother's help to get dressed.
She came upstairs and told him she was only going to help him once so he better pay attention.
She pulled out her work uniform a pair of knickers and a bra.
She helped him into the bra and made him put the knickers on the right way round.
He stepped into her work uniform and he buttoned it up.
He felt ridiculous in it.
She explained that the bus would drop him off at the supermarket where she worked.
She gave him a list of groceries he would have to buy and bring home with him.
A few told him after work there was a pile of laundry waiting and all the beds needed changing.
He looked at her and said what are you going to do whilst you're in my body?
She just looked at him and said I'm going to sit around the house playing video games and making a mess for you to clean up.
She picked up her hand back removed her credit card and handed it to him.
He went off to work in her body feeling ridiculous in the uniform he was wearing.
He did not like the way it punished looking front when the wind hit or the way tried to lift and flush his knickers.
The bus was 10 minutes late and he practically had a run from the stop to the shop to make sure he was there on time.
His first job of today was to stack shelves boring and repetitive work.
His second job of the day was to serve on one of the tills.
He sat there scanning people's items with a smile on his face not wanting to get his mother fired.
After the five-hour shift was up he did her shopping queued up for 10 minutes paid and headed out to wait for the bus.
As he was still there it started to rain and there was no shelter.
By the time he got home, he was ripping wet cold and pissed off.
He was annoyed to see the breakfast dishes were still on the side and not a single finger around the health I'd been doing.
He thought back to all the time she had asked for help and he had refused.
He now knew how she felt will he did this to her after a long day at work.
He knew there was no point moaning or crying over it.
He put the shopping away and went and did the laundry following the instructions she had left for him on the machine.
He went upstairs and changed the beds before cleaning the bathroom with heading downstairs to make dinner.
Thankfully she had left a recipe out for him and all he had to do was follow it.
Dinner turned out a lot better than breakfast.
He shouted for his brother to come downstairs for dinner.
She came downstairs looking half asleep and said I don't know how you managed to do nothing more day it's boring and exhausting.
He just looked at her and said I think I now understand how hard your life is can we swap back?
She just said I think and of the week or so in my body living my life then I will consider us what.
She sat down and started eating the meal he had prepared looked at him and said it was almost as good as mine.
Between thoughtful of the food she said tomorrow you will be completely on your own I will not be helping you with anything.
You will have to get yourself up prepare breakfast get ready for work and do the job from the house before preparing tea.
He looked at her with tears in his eyes and said I take it you will be set around here doing nothing.
Just looked at him and said to better understand each of what we have to live each of our lives I don't enjoy being you and you don't enjoy being me.
If only he had known that his mother was enjoying being him.
If only he knew that she was planning to disappear with his body and start a new life somewhere else he might not have been obedient.
But he did not know so he was going to do his best to convince her that he understood her life and how hard she had it.
