And Mama Used to Say....

For those of you who do not know, I am EXTREMELY close to both of my parents. While I've always been a daddy's girl, as I've matured and gotten older over the years....I realized that I an truly a carbon copy of my mother and for that reason, she and I understand each other on a level that is very special. For those of you who have had the pleasure of meeting my mom, you then get the full understanding that I'm simply 'chip' and she's definitely the ole 'block' all day!?! One of my favorite reasons to sit down and talk to my mother is because she always has a one liner that will sum up an entire conversation in such  way that while you are entertained, you no longer feel the need to continue having the conversation. And what never ceases to amaze me is how still to this day at almost 31 years of age, she's still hitting me with new ones! I'm like, "mom, did you just make that up?" And she swears that she's only repeating what she heard her mother or grandmother say at some point in her life. So there you have it people, foolishness is in my lineage :)

I will be reserving the "And Mama Used to Say..." segment for any and all of the unique one liners that I hear my mother (or anyone else for that matter) say that I have now retained and added to my regularly used vernacular!

So a whiiiile ago, I'm talking to mommy and we're speaking about those members of our family that had we had the option to choose them...probably wouldn't have made the cut! (don't act like you don't feel me on that one) Anyhoo, so somebody's locked up again, somebody don had another baby, other folk stealing from other disabled fam members...and the litany goes on and on. So we begin to speak about a couple of these situations that have been recurring situations with some of these folks and we're trying to understand how one keeps making the same decisions with the verbalized 'hopes' to gain a different result. If you are in an abusive relationship which has now produced 3  'unplanned' children....there should not be a 4th 'unwanted/planned' pregnancy. So at a very climatic point in the conversation, mommy was getting pretty passionate with the expression of her thoughts and proceeds to say: "now I'mma tell you (you know it's gonna be good when it starts with 'I'mma tell you'...it's about to be Bible-worthy wisdom right here!) ain't no sense in doin what you doin and then being surprised with what chu get. We all grown now, you can't get some tame p!$*y from a wild pig......now that's just all to it!?!" *FLATLINE

So after I came to and then caught my breath from hysterical laughter....mommy was still there :) And of course she replied to my reaction the same as she always does: "What? What I say?" *Lips to the side* Now me being the analytical person that I am, immediately I have follow up questions. Why a pic ma? Ma, tame vs. wild 'pocketbook,' really?! That's how you gon shut this conversation down?!? But in that instant magically I realized that there was nothing more that needed to be said to truly sum up and understand the situation....so hey, what can you say! The true test for any one liner is to be able to do this so a 'chest bump' and a polite 'hat tip' to mom so she can keep 'em comin......