Day CCCIV

It's A Woman Ting

     “Not weally, he sed sompen bout haw being a girl he noo in high school, who neva even looked at im. Said he had a ting fo haw, but she acted like he din even exist. Then like a few nites befo da wedding, him ana few pals wents out. It was kinna like his bachalah phatay, an da she wuz, an she came on ta im. He sed he was drunk, and dint see haw again for a coupla monfs, ya na. Then one day outa da freaking blue, she calls im, and sez she be knocked up. Being a stand up dude, pop took ca a haw. He didda right ting, man. He took cah adem, provided fo em, boot neva even mentioned it ta mom. I gotta be honest dude, Ida na wat I wuda don done if det wuz me, man. If det happened ta me, ya na! Gotta smoke?”

     “Ya neva na doya…wuds ya foigive im? I asked as I handed her a cigarette.

     “Ida na dude!”

     “Damn, he took ca a y’all…evyting ya cuds eva want, he wuz da an all.”

      “Ina Ina, but ya gotta be a woman ta unastand, dude...it’s a woman ting, yo!”

     “I guess cuz det cain’t happen ta a guy...did he eva cheat on ya mom?”

     “No way, he wuz always ina stoh an sheet, man, then he always came home.”

     “How boudem Sundays?”

     “Nah pop wuz always so reverent, man. Always reading da bible, I won’t be lee it, man. No way!”

     “How bout ya mom…wat she be lee?”

     “I don’t tink so neida, I tink it’s jest det she feels betrayed, an fo alla dem years he neva don tol haw. It was a secret, and they wuz living as if they wuz no secrets twin em, ya na…then booom alla det sheet don hit da fan, an sheet ya na.”

     I wondered about that for a long time, what if? What if he had told his bride, would she still have married him? I guess it was one of those things for which there’s no answer.