Dedicated to Carlita, my mother
Once upon a time, there were four people in a car. Their
names were Ephriam, Imari, Tice, and our mother, Carlita (Judy); we are the Ward
family.We had just come back from Boston
to visit my brother Corey (on my Father’s side); on our way back from Boston we were driving home to Fall River. When Tice was pulling up next to
our house to drop us off we conversed in the car for a while. Then it was time
to go up stairs in the house. On that summer of 2004, Tice looked at me in the
back seat and winked at me to watch what he was going to do to her. While mom was
giving a kiss goodnight to Tice, as she did so, she was rolling up the front
seat passenger window so she could get out of the car. Then she turned around
and said, “I sworn I put the window up”, so she did it again with one of her
legs out of the car. She stared at the window to make sure it was truly up this
time then slowly the window started rolling back down. Again, she rolled it
back up for a third time. My mom thought that the window was broken; however, Tice
had all the window buttons on his side of the driver’s door. The up and down of
the window proceeded to make my mom feel like she was going crazy. She was
losing her mind! The window was going up and down, half way to the middle, and
back down and up again. My mom was moving her head through the window operation
– her eyes following every motion of the mystery window. I was laughing so hard
that I had tears and I almost went to the bathroom on myself making that the
funniest day of my life and one of my happiest memories.
-Imari
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