Once upon a time,when I was 18 and somewhat still fresh outta high school, I met this girl when I started working at a daycare. We Will call her LaWana. She seemed strange to me when I met her but I just couldn’t put my finger on it. The fact that she slicked her hair down everyday with Pennzoilwasn’t it though….
Or the fact that she lined her eyes with eyeliner so thick she looked like a broke ass Cleopatra wasn’t it either. Anyways, she and I became instant friends. Soon, there after, I realized, at 24 years old, she didn’t have a car….hell, she didn’t even know how to drive. That of course is not a bad thing, but still it became a huge problem later in this situation.
So, LaWana, besides her driving issues, seemed to be somewhat decent. For the most part she did what she was supposed to. At the daycare facility, she had the 3 & 4 year old room and I had the 1 & 2 year old room. When we did our rotation for lunch, me another buddy of mine, who had a car too, would always go out to eat. We would stop by her room to see if she wanted something. Along with making us feel guilty we drove and she didn’t , she would always put in an order for something. Sometimes supply the money, sometimes not. “Oh I am broke…..But I sure am hungry.” “Hey can ya’ll pay for me… this time, my _________bill is due”. “I’ll pay you back” Uh hun…..yeah right by 2001 that “pay you back” tally had to be near 200.00.
LaWana, was always giving out advice about men but never had one. She always said, “Never date a Jamican man or any man from the Carribean, they are always possesive and like to cheat.” “Never date a military man, that is instant STD and asking to be cheated on.” “Never make a man feel like you ACTUALLY like him, let him know you are the boss.” She also said things like, “Girl, I neverhave give IT up.” “Light skinned black men are sneaky.” Funny, she always talked about this dude she knew in high school that I went to church with, and he was light skinned and she had mad hots for him. Even then well past high school, she was forever wondering if she saw him again.
Speakin of men, she tried to hook me up with this one dude. I thought it was unusual for some reason, because he was always over at her house. Even if I randomly showed up. At work he was always the one she called if no one else could give her a ride home. When she was seen with him she always seemed like she was embarrassed. Well, finally, I was introduced and then she felt there may be an instant Love Connection in the works. Still a weird feeling was hanging in the air like a bad smell near a paper mill.
We went on a “Date”. If you classify a date with 3 people. She came too. Sat right in the middle of us at the movies. Right off the bat I could see he was not my type , plus at 19, he was too for me at 29, I felt. So, since that didn’t work out, I saw the real side of LaWana. How she felt about him. Apparently, he was military and married before but the wife cheated when he was over seas, well during his troubled relationship, he met LaWana. Eventually, so she said he feel in love with her. So when he would go over seas, he would write love letters to her and say what they could do after his divorce……..so she says.
I said, “Why the hell did you try to hook me up with him if he loved you??” Her response, “Aw girl he wasn’t my type , plus he ugly girl.” WTF????????????? In my mind , I said, “For an ugly guy that ain’t your type , he sure at your house alot.” I remember going to the club one night with friends, and saw his car at her apartment parking spot at 2:00AM. He never let ANYONE drive his baby. He was out the military by then and was in town……Ok kay kay kay? Had seen him earlier that day at the mall….Come to find out later he was doing more than just biting his nails with two of his fingers in her house……………………HA! By the time I found out, he had been doin it for 7 years. (Even when he was married). That’s all she would let him do but , she was allowing that and trying to hook folk up with him? WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF?
*SIGH* Anyways Later on, I got pregnant by my boyfriend at the time, who was my type. I eventually figured me working around other folks kids was not what I needed for my pregnancy and quit my job. LaWana didn’t liek that because at this point me or another co-worker was takin her home everyday. When LaWana, found out I had a boyfriend, she had an unusual interest in info about him. Then, as I progressed in my pregnancy, she made weird comments about how a baby grows inside the belly and her fascination with wanting to touch my belly more than ususual. On top of that, one day, we was at the gas station and saw my daughter’s father and his cousin there. She saw the cousin and bout wet her panties. She felt just by seeing him, he was the man of her dreams. Till he opened his mouth to talk to me and say hi, and she found out he had some disabilities. By the time I said bye to the guys and barely closed my car door, it was on. She called him every name in the book…..”He cute, but too bad he’s retarded” “I think he is so sexy lookin, but I just can’t be with a slow man”. I was appalled and said that was mean. I told my daughter’s father,he was angry and threatend to kick her behind, but realizing under that amadillo hair, she was female, he clamed down, and we kept it to ourselves. He didn’t like her from that point and just didn’t have much to say when she was around. He loves his cousin and would defend him at all costs so he made sure he didn’t come around with or with out the cousin when she was around. But Question: Why did eventually she hook up with him?? After all she said about him??? Then he eventually moved into her place????Could it be the disability checks he’s recieveing that made her look past the speech impedement??? My daughter’s father tried his best to coax him out of that, but his cousin was so happy to finally be in a relationship…..*SIGH*
Eventually, I had my daughter. At this time, the daycare I had quit at, shut down due to bad business dealings and LaWana was out of work. She decided to do daycare from her home. Karma’s a bitch because finger dude’s ex-wife who knew who LaWana was….was one of the people LaWana had to see to complete her courses so she could be licensed to do daycare. By this time I found a new job so , I felt my daughter was okay in LaWana’s care, since she was good with the kids when we worked together. Bad idea.
When she had attitudes, you could see it in the mornings, when your child was dropped off. Then, I noticed I was buying for every child in there. My daughter had an army supply of diapers for her, and her only!
But I noticed I was buying them every week. From damn Costco! The big box! Somethin was fishy, I decided and started buiying smaller packs.
I told LaWana, my job was flexible and if she needed anything form me, I could take off for a little bit and tend to my daughter or get things for her if she needed anything. Well, how bout this Gasoline slicked down dome hoe, would be like, “Hey your daughter needs more baby wipes (I had bought some 3 days ago), and oh….while you out, can you get me the 3 piece at Popeyes? ” or, callin me at work randomly, ” Hey girl I was calling to say I was dusting, and your baby sneezed, she might be sick, you might want to come pick her up, on your way can you get me a medium pepporoni pizza?” WTF and &^%#$*&^$!
Soon therafter….I broke up with my daughters father, for reasons that thankfully had nothing to do with LaWana, but he and I remained friends. LaWana had a problem with that……said she knew we were still “Seeing” each other and it was wrong. Who asked her? She let a dude finger her for 7 years and made it seem like she was golden because it didn’t progress to nothin more, and tried hooking folk up with him during that time. NEXT! Moving on, because I was single and my daughters father and I were not together, I started dating other people and met up with one of my old buddies I knew from before I met my daughter’s father. We were really close but because he was in the military and had to leave for duty for a year, we lost touch. He was a really cool dude. Well, he came back into my life and after a year or so of dating, he proposed. I eventually accepted and shared this good news with my friends. One of them being LaWanda. Question: Why was she mad?? She didn’t know this dude form Adam , but she got pissed as hell when I told her. Not just that but she eventually made it a point ot share this with my daughter’s father cousin and put her blurbs on it so it could get back to him. Liek I must have cheated to meet up with this man and there is no way I really knew this dude because SHE never saw him. (Hell well I never SAW her and the finger dude…”together”). My daughter’s father didn’t believe her because he knew me well enough and that fact that when the math was done…..it was obvious we had long stopped “seeing” each other. Heffa.
Eventually, I felt used and just put in my 2 weeks with her. She caught on and got nasty with me, so I didn’t even finish. The day I gave my notice was my daughter’s last day. All because she was jelous I had found a lasting happiness and was getting married. Good thing her family members were invited to the wedding. Had a good ol time too……and the gifts they gave were so nice! Right off the registry too. Thanks again guys!! :) We had a mutual friend that knew her and I. And once we talked everything out, she had a few things to say as well. Mind you, this friend, knew LaWana longer than I ….She had stopped hanging with her because LaWana had lied about needing some money and had conned both of us. She talked about both of us to the other person and our children. (She said my daughter was ugly.) We no longer speak to her of course but it’s funny how she still worries about what we are doing. My daughter’s father called me up the other day to tell me that she supposedly is getting married to that cousin fo his , of whom she called every derogatory disabled name in the book. How she acted like she never said anythin negative about OUR daughter as a baby, and wanted to know if she could be the flower girl in her wedding. He called to laugh about it not ask…..he played asif he didn’t even know where I was and we didn’t even talk. Look at this BBQ grill bottom tryin to get in somebody’s business and see what’s going on. Man she know she need to quit!
You think you know some people…..but sometimes they turn out to be the devil.
Take it Easy…….
