Took my Momma to the Mass Street Soda Shop where she had her mind continuously blown trying to decide on a cream soda, luckily we had some help or we couldve been there all day. Next stop: the fabric store. En route we witness a white haired man in a giant new pickup truck blast on his horn for a good minute while a foot away from a Black woman wearing hijab. Me and my mother, at the same time, attacked back, my mother wagging her finger telling him, Shame on you. while I yelled obscenities, told him to quit being an asshole and looked the woman face to face and said, Dont let this shithead ruin your day. We had a moment, woman to woman. My hothead mom and I continue to rant about it as we continue up the street when Truck Man reappears, he had made the block and caught up with us at the corner in front of the Masonic Temple. Windows rolled down, he protests, But she was breaking the law. Jaywalking this and jaywalking that... and then attacking us, are you breaking the law too? Are those beers in your hands? to which I gave him an earful about root beer and being a racist bigot. My mom chimed in, This is root beer! From a really nice store up the street, you should try it. He kept at it, Shes always jaywalking, someone needed to tell her... before my mother went straight up to his window and rested her arms and head on his window and looked at him and said in the stern but sweet southern woman voice, Sir, Im from Auburn, Alabama and I have never seen a man be so disrespectful to a woman in all my life. What you did was wrong sir. I dont care that she was jaywalking, you had no right to lay on the horn, you could have given that woman a heart attack. I threw in, Real Christlike, sir hoping this would push some sort of button in him. I literally pulled my mom off him and we finished crossing the street. Man were we riled up. Mom tells me, Dont tell Daddy, hell get real mad that we stirred the pot. Truth. But that pot needed some stirrin. And we were just the hotheads to do it.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 03:18:52 +0000
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