Works in a steel manufacturing factory and drives a small red Grand Prix SUV, 3 things that don't usually go together. You'd think he'd have a nice, bright white Ford pickup, work in an office building, and come home to his son and wife every night, but it's a lot harder than that. He works 7-4:30 five days a week, then drives home in his poorly air-conditioned car to a daughter who never stops wanting, bills in the mailbox and waits for his wife to come home. She's usually annoyed by a mistake someone in HR made or the traffic she got into on the way home, but she always seems to be more down when she gets home. Speaking of my mother, she is 37 years old and of Hungarian, Italian and Irish descent. He drives a nice, roomy 2016 Ford Escape to his office where he works from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., then drives 27 minutes to his house, then has to cook, feed the pets, start doing laundry and talk to his family. Then, if he wants, he'll do hip-hop sit-ups with me after dinner, then take a shower or bath and go to sleep. It seems like his routine is very planned and ritualized, because it is. There isn't much room for "free time" or hobbies, considering he has so much on his plate