Chương 29: Chapter 29

Yolanda picked me up, beaming in her red and white holiday attire complete with a new hairpiece: Suzy, a blunt cut with bangs, and a new car. I tell you sometimes the twin thing rings true. More than once, without knowledge of each other actions, we did the same thing. Two weeks prior to my trip, my Volvo died so I purchased another car—a blue Nissan four door compact. That was on Monday. Yolanda bought her car on Wednesday, a red Nissan two door convertible.

Before I could click my seatbelt, Yolanda filled my ear with all the details about the benefits of her promotion.

“Girl, after I worked my finger to the bone on that Newburg account, there was no other choice but give me the job,” she said, lighting a cigarette. As I nodded my head and said ‘Congrats’, I rolled the windows down.

“So Ms. I’m-about-to-tell-them-people-to-kiss-my-black-Pitt-County-ass, how do you like your job now?”

“I love it like a welfare mom likes the first of the month.”