“I was so angry I had to stop, turn back and address that man. I can’t even tell you all I tell him, but I was so mad I was seeing red. To believe that this man could be looking at my little daughter…,” she exclaimed.
The woman is a mother of three and the daughter referred to is under the age of 15. She was sharing her experience of having a grown man express an interest in the child. I felt her anger and understood where she was coming from.
We were having a telephone conversation at the time.
“Girl, sometimes I just don’t know what to say about these men,” she began, and initially I thought she was about to tell me of an issue she was having with her significant other.
“Imagine the other day I walking down the road and this man working on the house, he start like calling out to me to get my attention. I didn’t pay no mind because I was in me own world but is when he turn and say ‘Don’t worry you gat to be me mother-in-law’, right away I stop.