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# A mother warns her son not to touch figs poisoned for her suspicious husband
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/chto-takoe-zabota/
- Published: 2021-09-28T17:36:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:07:18.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Observations, Mores, Humour

What is care? It is when a mother warns her son not to touch the figs: she had, after all, been obliged to smear every fig in the garden with poison in order to dispatch a suspicious husband who would take no food that any other hand had touched