So I went to wash some clothes yesterday and a Jamaican lady with a thick accent was in the laundromat with her toddler son. I brought a book with me bc I just bought it the day before and was super eager to get down and read it when she started up a convo with me.
Man she is super bitter about her situation and when she tells it you can see why. She doesnt have a good relationship with her family so she is raising her son on her own without their support (I suspect there is a back story on that but I didnt ask-I just let her talk), ontop of that her baby father wants nothing to do with her bc she took him to court. He doesnt come by to see their son and has hung up the phone on him (he is 2) when she dialed his number and put their son on the phone. She kept telling me over and over again not to have kids that her son is super clingy and if she leaves him with anyone to go somewhere he wont eat; he'll just sit and cry. She seemed super stressed out. Hearing her story you could see why. But what caught my attention more was how she treated her son. While she was talking to me she had a can of sprite in her hand and everytime he reached for it she would brush his hand away without even looking at him. She just kept talking. If he whined for candy she would kinda yell at him and tell him no. SHe even told me when he asks for his daddy she gets mad and tells him he doesnt have a "f'n daddy". Poor her and that child.
I dont want that to be me. I know she loves him but at the same time she seems stretched to the max. She did about 3 loads of laundry for $1.50 each and two dryers for 75 cents each; thats a total of $6 but for a single mom that is alot of money.
Poor her, I pray for her and her son.
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