My Brush With Karma Left Me Speechless
The Power of Parental Karma
Karma never takes a lunch break or goes on vacation. I found out the hard way! I gave my mom the business when I was a Kid and the favor was returned.
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Good evening and welcome to my humble podcast abode. I am Cocoa Griot, a fifty-something single mom who enjoys talking about life, love and a smattering of other topics. To say that I was nosy as a child is an understatement. I always liked to hang around grown ups because that's where the real action was. Who cared about Barbie or GI Joe or whatever Tonka trucks rolling through was
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doing. I wanted my ear to the street. My mother would have none of it, But one day I heard my mom tell my dad how much she disliked this woman that had to stop by pick up something. My mom kept saying gosh this woman is so two-faced. I really just want her to get on with what she needs
and then move on. Because I really don't like two-faced people. My five year old brain lit up. I was about
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to see a woman with two faces!. Oh wow! So the woman comes over and somehow she manages not just to pick up stuff, but she worked her way in and sat down in the living room. I looked at the woman in the front, then I looked at her in the back. And I proudly announced to my mom. "I thought you said this lady had two faces, she only has one face." The lady grabbed her purse and left in a huff.
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So one thing my mother always reminded me was that I was going to get back what I had given her in my childhood. Boy was she right. I remember we were throwing my son Cameron a birthday party he was turning three. We were all in the living room celebrating and then Cameron decided that he needed to go to the bathroom or so I thought. He came back from the laundry room with a pair of my underwear. He proudly held them up and said see everybody these are my mama's
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panties. That was the sound of my dignity exiting the room at that moment. All I could do was think about the two faced woman and how my mom had gotten her revenge on me through my son. I quickly retrieved my underwear from Cameron’s hands and invited him to join his birthday party with his friends while I tucked away my underwear and my embarrassment. Round 2
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One day my grandfather was visiting us and he was playing with Cameron. Cameron had a toy and dropped it and said (car horn) My grandfather looked at him and said what did you say? Cameron just nonchalantly replied, I said (car horn) like my mama does all the time. Well that was the day I decided to clean up my verbal act because my grandfather was quite upset with me.
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I had not let that word leave my lips in his presence, but it was apparent that I had a habit of using that word when he wasn’t around. It also taught me that children are sponges! They soak up everything in their environment, good or bad. Whether it is two faces, underwear or some inappropriate language, we always have to be careful when little ears are listening.
As always I
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wish you good health, good fortune, and a good night! Cocoa Griot out!
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