Happy Cinco de Mayo. If you are in the DC 'urea', I may (or may not be) at spots on 7th Street by the MCI center and A.ARP offices and/or on U Street. If you see me, shout me out. Translation: Give me the knowing head nod and allow me to put my Diet Coke on your tab. And if you ge drunk and have my a number for me, feel free to drunk dial. (But don't really expect me to answer.) Thoughts?
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My grandma said, "Never mind them cus those lil wet whores just doin' what they momma taught em."
~Grandma R
I love her so. She kept on talking like she didn't just use 'lil wet whores' in a sentence! Who was she talking about? He widowed brother. He's her older brother so he has to be every bit of late 70's! Yet, she's calling the 50 year old women who are after him and his money 'lil wet whores'. I wonder where she picked up this phrase. Has she been watching BET? I know when my Nana started peppering her conversation with 'keepin it real', she had stumbled upon BET one day when nobody was watching.
BTW, I told my mother what she said, and my mother, without missing a beat was like, "You've never heard that phrase before? Plus, you know R has a mouth on her."
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