Friday Afternoon Just Off I-40
Overheard in line at a gas station market:
Young Woman with Meth Mouth: Hey there, darling!
Old Woman with TB Cough: Hey, Girl!
YWWMM: When’d you get out?
OWWTBC: I been out since February.
YWWMM: I just got out today.
OWWTBC: Congratulations, honey…
YWWMM: Had to get me a Slurpy. Ain’t had one in a long time.
OWWTBC: I guess not.
YWWMM: I love them Slurpies. Hey, give me a ride back to back up to Donnie’s momma’s. You going that way? Gas done got so high since I been in I had to walk down.
OWWTBC: You still with Donnie?
YWWMM: Donnie’s locked up to. But his check still comes to his momma’s. I told her she need to break off most of it to me to help pay for my baby.
OWWTBC: You carrying?
YWWMM: No. But she don’t know that.
OWWTBC: I never heard of such. What are you gonna do when times comes you should be showing.
YWWMM: (with blind confidence) Slip in the shower and miscarry.
May 26th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Welcome back!
May 26th, 2008 at 4:42 am
Sad thing is that to YWWMM (and many like her) is that’s a responsible form of birth control.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Makes one grateful.
And for you, a nice 501st post.
May 26th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Damn… sounds like Virginia…
May 26th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Makes me sad
May 27th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Makes me glad I’m gay.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Really sad that people live like that.
May 27th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
I know someone who married a girl b/c she was pregnant - then she ‘miscarried.’
May 27th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Oh my , how unmistakenly American this dialogue sounds. Pure Jerry Springer or Maury Povich. The participants could be of ANY race in our new post-racial environment. I guess we shouldn’t expect honor among thieves, but have we no basic lines we will not cross? Some people just get in where they fit in.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Another example of snappy, rural reparte. Why I became a rural sociologist.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
It sounds awfully familiar, unfortunately. After my sister got out of jail herself a few months back, she introduced me to the world of exactly what you’ve described. I know it firsthand.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Is this why I moved to New York?
May 28th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I think I know you guys–you know who you are — well enough to say that you know, he, Tony Baloney, is having his way with us. Stereotypes don’t get invented by writers, but a good writer can help us see the world.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Damn, sounds like North Carolina