I had no idea what to do. So I just picked up the mirror
and put it in my Geo Metro.
In my heart, I was so hurt and mad . . . but also I felt like
that was so funny. Who throws a huge, broke-ass rearview
mirror at people?
Sometimes I laugh so hard about it, but sometimes I just
cry, because I know my mom is sick. She’s sick, and she’s
trying to be a good parent, I think. In my mind, I like to
think she was trying to be motherly, she was trying to tell
me to be safe and not get pregnant. Trying to keep me out
of trouble. You know?
But to this day, if I have words with somebody, I never
walk past them. I never turn my back on them. Now I’m
always watching people. I’ve never had that problem with
somebody hitting me in the back of the head no more.
Never again after that.
Mama
One time, when I was twenty-three, I got my tax return, and
they gave me $4000 back. I told my mom:
Tiffany: “I’m going to spend a thousand dollars on you
at the Walmart. I’m going to get you whatever you
want at the Walmart.”I was doing it partially because she was my mom, but
also because her mental illness was not going well. She was