Posted:Fri Feb 6, 2009 5:42 PM CST
Oh,Pa-Wasn`t Ma Enough?
I had only just been divoced,and trying really hard to recouperate from a 17 yr.abusive marriage.I finally got settled in my house,couldn`t get my ex to pay child support,he thought it would force me to go back to him.I had been looking for work,but I didn`t have a car.My neigbor,got a job downtown,for me,with her,and said I could depend on her to ride downtown with her,Whew!! I felt independend,at last....Then...I heard the doorbell ring.....There was Pa,looking very forlorn,& sad.Behind him,on my small porch lay his huge trunk."Vell,daughter,I`m here ,now-to help you!! I leave Ma,dat vuman.Oye!!! She gotet big mout....I move in vit you"..."That`s it,you`re moving in with me-just like that????You just left her!!!!"NO,NO- I tell her I moving in vit you". -"Oh,I see,as long as you told her".What could I say-just leave him on the porch...He went on and on."You need man in the house".Yeah,sure -I need a man;All I could think,was, my dad had left,and I knew how my mother was ,so dominating,no one could ever get a word in.But my dad was 71.yrs old.What was he thinking?! Well,I kicked my daughter out of her room,put a rollaway bed in mine,& that was that.Two weeks later,Pa went walking around,& decided I needed a car.He paid someone $350. for something with a deficient,ill-fitting wheel arm.Which at every stop sign,the car would make a left turn by itself,even if I was going right."Thank you,Pa"...Goot,you no have to valk!!! Yeah,Pa-yeah...After all the yelling he`d do about raising my kids,my sister`s mother in law came to visit,with my sister and her husband.He got into his politics,and the mother-in-law got into it with Pa.Oh, MY God!!!I finally went to my room,excusing myself,after i heard her tell him to"shut up,preacher".I finally appeared in the living room,thinking everyone left,but found the pair making out -on my sofa!!!!!My sister was outside,smoking."PA!PA!!!WHAT ARE YOU DOING"????? I felt like pulling my hair out."I sorry,she goot lookink,you know"?!! '"Yeah,but-this is not right...Ma is already not talking to me".",Aw,she crazy voman anyvay"!!"I know,I know".(Believe it or not,I find that hard,too).During the night,(and I heard nothing),my Dad moved out and went to live with that woman.But it only lasted for two weeks.In one month`s time,he had moved back home with Ma.He thought the grass was greener,on the other side of the fence,but what men don`t seem to realize,is,that it still has to be mowed.Pa died of cancer,a year later.I tried to find a lesson in this ,too.But.I`m still at a loss-always trying my best to be an obedient,loving,understading,`(confused) daughter.-whaddya gonna do??