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“Another Hurricane Creation”
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“Holy Matrimony”
Atlanta is in an uproar over some marital drama in its local church scene! Leslie can’t ever work on today and she is very distraught about “everybody else’s business” as usual. Let’s check in on them and see what is going on in Buckhead’s Hair By Jacques.
Leslie: Lawd, he walked on her neck!
Marquise: Who chile?
Leslie: My passa. . .
Marquise: Well what kind of healing was yall doing up in there!
Leslie: Well, we all fall short of the glory Marquise . . . and nobody up in here judging you-- bumpin’ and grindin’ with every Tom, DICK ‘n Harry!
Marquise: $!*%^#&!
Jacques: Ladies . . .
Marquise (under his breath): I know “HER” ain’t calling me a lady!
Rock (the barber): All of ‘em are fake! They are pimps and are taking all of yallz money! I used to date a chick that said she was all righteous, but it turned out that she had “that Superhead!”
(The fellas fall out into an abrupt laughter)
(Leslie’s phone rings . . . I’mma Buy You A Drank, Shawty Wanna Roll Wit Me!!!)
Rock to Leslie: Does yall choir sing that Les?
Leslie (As she walks angrily away from Rock, Leslie accidentally puts the phone on speaker): Hello!
Man on the phone: “So what color drawz you got on Les?” (Leslie runs out of the shop)
Rock: See the wanna be good girls are freaks . . . she up in the shop everyday keeping up all kind of confusion and asking us to come to her “set” every Sunday and her Passa chin checking his old lady. Now she got “old dude” on the phone asking her what color drawz she has on! THEY ARE FAKE! ALL OF ‘EM!
(Rock’s clients are agreeing with him and dapping each other off)
Jacques to Rock: If you don’t mind me asking, why are you so bitter towards organized religion? It is just not Leslie’s church you are angry with every religious conversation that we have in here. I don’t understand . . .
(Rock throws down his clippers and runs out of the shop!)
(Jacques seeing that he struck a nerve-- runs behind Rock to see what is going on.)
--Here is a little bit of information! If you did not know Jacques (who’s real name is “John Cooper”) is really not from France, he is from Louisville. Jacques moved to Atlanta to get out of redneck Kentucky and to start a new life. Well, then “John” lived on Bankhead Hwy. and worked at a liquor store to make ends meet. Robert, whom we now know as Rock, used to sell “herbal refreshments” right outside the liquor store where “John” worked. Because of a mutual appreciation of “herbal refreshments” they became friends. “John’s” only good memory of Louisville is his family’s church and the good times that he had there. Robert also expressed a relationship with God with “John” and that brought them closer as friends. Robert used to tell “John” that he had a Barber license and “John” told Robert that he too was a stylist and that we wanted to get out of the Bankhead area and open up an upscale shop. As time went on, Robert started selling more than “herbal refreshments,” but Robert did tell “John” that if he ever went to jail, take his “stash” and invest it. The only requirement is that “John” changes his name and where he was from and put the money in under his new identity and Robert would find him when he gets out from his jail deposit records. Well just that happened, and when Robert got out of jail he did find “John” in a new salon. One side was for styling hair and the other was an unopened barber shop waiting on Robert to come and claim it. The rest is history!--
Jacques (John): What’s up with you? You trippin’! For what?
Rock (Robert): Remember when we were back on the block and I used to tell you about my love of church and how my Pastor was counseling me and was about to show me how to get a Small Business loan to open a Barber Shop.
Jacques: Yes I remember that . . .
Rock: Well my baby brother was raped by one of the deacons in that church and when my “Grams” told the Pastor he did nothing. Not too long after that my baby brother killed himself.
(Rock walks away and gets in his car and drives off)
(Jacques stands there in amazement)
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Holy Matrimony sometimes hurts and “Secrets” in the church does kill. What would you do? How would you handle this situation—if nobody was listening to you? Let us know in the BLOGS!
Saturday, August 25, 2007
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