About a month ago, on a Friday I hear my sister scream, “OH EM GEE! What happened mom!!”

My apa and I ran over to see what was all the commotion and we find my sister hovering over my mom gasping, oooo’ing and ahhh’ing throwing a couple of “OMG’s” in there. As soon as I could get a good look, I noticed my mom had a black right eye and a huge cut on her eyebrow.

She kept pushing us away telling us she was fine, to leave her alone. My apa looked at her and demanded to know what happened, “Que te paso chaparra!”

She finally confessed she tripped over a step, fell, and cut her eyebrow. OUCH! Bad fall. We tell her she needs to go to the hospital right away. My mom refused to go the hospital. In fact, she stitched up the eyebrow herself with these tiny band aids. As I recall, she said something along the lines of, “I don’t need no damn doctor. They don’t do anything but charge you an arm and a leg for something I can do myself. Sometimes you don’t even get to see the damn doctor, it’s just a waste of time.”

Of course, both Vanessa and me (the wussies) kept telling her she needed to go because what if she got an infection or something. My little, tiny, 5 foot mom pointed her finger at us and reminded us that she knew damn well what she was doing. She was in La Cruz Roja after all, just wait and see, in a couple of weeks her eyebrow would be all nice and healed.

I’m not sure if I mentioned this, but my mom works part-time where I work. When they saw my poor beaten and battered mami at work all the girls gasped. Everyone asked what happened! My mom told them I hit her. LOL I couldn’t stop laughing. Then they asked me what happened and I simply said she forgot how to walk.

At a funeral a couple of days later, a lot of my friends were there. My parents attended and they’ve known most of my friends for years since I use to go to HS with these people. As soon as my mom took off her sunglasses the questions started, “OMG Mary! What happened?!?!”

My dad, mr. comedian, held his fist up and showed it to everyone and said, “I put her in her place.” Everyone started cracking up. My friends husband told my dad it was about time he took control of his relationship!

LOL

My poor mami. Her little black eye and fucked up eyebrow lasted a long time. It’s finally healed though. It looks pretty good too. She says it looks better then her other one.

I don’t know about all that!