SKEERED!!

NOUN – means more than just scared!!!

Here is a story for all of you and those of you who don’t know me well enough to be damn SKEERED of me and my family.

Those of you who read this daily and think I am not noticing you or what you are doing, think again.

Today would have been my mom and dad’s 38^th anniversary, but they divorced when I was 16.  The particulars don’t matter now, it was a long time ago.

I hear people out there all the time talking about how crazy they are and they will jack somebody up, etc.  OH PUHLEASE!!!  People you don’t know crazy like I know crazy.   Steve says it’s Louisiana crazy.  Meaning you are FROM there, not you moved there.  Well my mom is FROM there and so was my raging Cajun Granddaddy!!!  Meaning my mom inherited and learned from the best and I have quite a good little knowledge myself.

See Granddaddy was a raging alcoholic.  Very sad.  He was an identical twin like my boys.  His twin brother died.  Granddaddy never could recover from the sever pain of losing his brother.  I will tell you some stories later about him but right now want to tell you this one.  You needed to know some background to know where this comes from…..

Mom and dad divorced and dad was given the amount he was to pay in child support, even though he felt I was an “adult” at 16 and he shouldn’t have to help mom take care of me.  In all honesty I think he gave mom money a total of maybe 3 times.

This one time in particular mom had called him and said she needed some money for me for some reason, who knows – dancing, cheerleading, school whatever.  Dad said ok.  He always just said ok.  Let me say this, Dad lived with my mom around 18 years and you would have thought he knew better than to just tell mom ok and think she would let it go. 

You see if my mom tells you to do something, UMMMM you do it unless you don’t have use of your arms or legs are dead or in a coma or in jail…..get what I am saying.  If you don’t do what she tells you, then well let me tell you she will make you wish you had. 

Now I am unsure of the specifics on if dad said a day/time he would give her the money but apparently he didn’t follow through with what he said and I am pretty sure mom spoke to him at least one more time to give him a chance to do what she told him.  There is none of this calling 100x , pleading, begging, threatening or whatever, that’s not how it, no that’s not how mom,  works.

Well he didn’t and here we go. 

So mom, puts her little self (yes all of 5’2” and 95 lbs) in her little red truck she had at the time and drives to where dad’s shop was.  Dad had worked there for about 10+ years.  There was a bar across the street from the shop, think it was the fancy “WHY NOT” bar.  Mom pulled in and parked her truck facing the front door of dad’s shop, which also had a big garage door on it..  She just sat there and started reading her book.  The big garage door is open and then she sees my dad, his brother and their boss just standing in the doorway looking at her.  Then they shut the door down about half way. 

            Apparently at this time Dad has a restraining/protective order against my mom. 

Yes I said against my mom.  So I guess he thought this would prevent mom from

“getting” to him.  This restraining order came from an incident in which somehow my dad got two black eyes : )…… I am guessing Dad should have blocked better but hey I wasn’t there it’s just a guess. 

Mom said for about 30 minutes, every few minutes or so dad or one of the other guys would look under the garage door to see if she was still there.  She said she could see their feet run back out from under the door.

Now a policeman shows up and knocks on mom’s truck window.  She rolls it down and said hello.  The policeman said Ms. Shepherd, your ex-husband has called us and informed us he has a restraining/protective order against you and you can’t be within 1K feet from his person.  Keep in mind he is giggling while he is saying this.  My mom asked him how far was she from Dad.  Policeman said well I am pretty sure you are outside the 1K feet.  She said well I don’t need to get any closer.  He just needs to give me some child support like he was ordered and he told me he would.  Policeman said well OK then and left.

I am pretty sure it was THAT night Dad found the money and time to bring it by the house.  He told my mom later that he always thought she was capable of doing such things but that day she proved it!!!

Some of you may not understand or get this but if you do then you know what it’s like to be SKEERED!!!  As hell!!!

Don’t make me SKEER you, don’t forget I am watching you and I got your number!