Just Like My Own! Picking up a teenager early!

DH and I met when I was 29 and he was well older than me.  I had one wonderful little girl child.  My Miss Priss was kinda quiet and never really got in trouble.  How could she.  She was only 7.   Now DH/ aka sparklie not so new boyfriend had to teenagers.  We have discussed them in previous blogs.  He had "Tense" and "Just like my Own".  Now I dearly love Just Like my Own but boy did she have her moments.  Tense was well she was just Tense and I didn't see her much.  Just Like my Own was a conniving turd and I loved her.   She was into stuff.  Now like the time DUH ex wife let her go out repossessing cars with a dear friends mother.  Now I was appalled.  I know I know I'm from Tennessee and we do things a little different there.  Really though it never occurred to me to send Miss Priss out repo'ing cars with a "friend".  Now here in Texas you repo someones stuff they can shoot you.  Guess that never occurred to DUH EX wife. 

So Just like my Own calls me and she's kinda scared.  You see she's never repossessed  cars before.  So I tell her daddy " well I'll just go and get her".  He informs me I can't do that as it is DUH EX wife's weekend.  ( I have to think of a better name for DUH EX wife ) Now I'm not into all that court crap!  If I were in Weakley County I'd just call my brother in law, Mr. Max or heck at that time I'd have called Big Roy and I'd have launched right over and gotten Just Like My Own.  Lord we were in Texas and evidently everyone has to follow rules here.  Even me.  I don't like this.  So I rant and rave about babies repo'ing cars and complain out Older Blondie ( that's what we will call DUH ex wife ).  Well I call everyone Sweet sister in law #1 who agrees with me yep Older Blondie is nuts.  I call 2nd Sweet Sister in law #2 ( she's the calm one ) and she says yep I believe that she's nuts.   So I did get them to agree that older Blondie is insane but what do we do.  Everyone just shrugs their shoulders and scratches their heads.  Well I know what I'm going to do.  I'm going to get her!  

So I have no idea and don't remember the exactly seconds leading up to it.  I did go get Just Like my Own though.  I picked her little reposessing self right up. I proceeded to tell her that it was dangerous and omg does your mama know where you were.  She said Older Blondie did know.  This was the first of many parenting eye rolls Just Like my Own would get. 

So later on after repoing cars and such Just Like my own came to live with me, DH and Miss Priss.  I'm still amazed that Just Like my Own and Miss Priss didn't kill each other but it was kinda peaceful.  Now they refer to themselves as sisters.  SO all in all I think that was  a good result. 

Just like My Own was a trial.  I kept telling her.  Why do you try this crap.  I already thought about it and did it.  So you are gonna get caught.  Unlike Older Blonder, I was not dating. I was shackin up and had nothing to do but watcher her and think of ways to beat her at her game.  It was a challenge and I was up for it.

So one night she called, I'm going so and so and we are then going to do and do.  I said ok see ya at 11 30.  So I knew she was up to something.  Just the tone in her little squeaky voice said up to something! up to something!  Oh mighty lord how she was.  So DH thinks all is rolling along fine.  So here and about 10:30 I say to DH.  Honeyyyyyy sweetiee sugar lump.  ( i really didn't I could have said something like get your ass up we have to look for Just like my Own, she's up to no good )  I'm sure he said Yes dear?  I say " we need to go wait at the friend we don't likes house"  he said she said she is spending the night.  I said Yep that's what she said, she's up to something.  He said how do you know.  I just smiled and put on my fancy Cotton Jammie's for the trip.  I said "OK you can stay here but I'm going".  So off we go just a few blocks in my fancy Sunday night Cotton Jammie's to the friend who is a pain in the butts house.  OOOOOOOOOOo and its a nice one.  Screens hanging off the windows, 1978 camero on blocks, trash in the yard kinda place.  Where you know that if there is a mama she is in there drinking Bud and reading True Story and don't even care that Just Like my Own and her trashy gothy kid are out and up to no good.

DH said so what would you like to do.   Well me being the teen girl doin what you are not supposed to girl said ... "pull back two driveways and cut the lights"!  DH say, " we will be here for ever she's not supposed to be in til 11:30".  I roll my eyes ... geez he's a dumb daddy.  I say "she will be home just a little early.  Oh say about 11:10 or 11:15 ish.   Sure enough 11:15ish ... we see what rollin up.  mmmmmmmmm hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm sports car!  Kids in it.  One GROWN ASS MAN and two teen girls.  THey were all giggling.  Not for long.  I start to tell DH to pull up to the bumper and hit the lights.  Before I could do this he had turned red and fire and kicked into DADDY! woooooooooo he was mad.  Now when I'm the only one with sense its a bad thing.

So Just Like My Own gets out of the car and says "Hey"!  I said "Hey, Get int he damn car".  Trashy girlfriend was running to the house to get her mama with the Bud and True Story.   Now as I am getting Just Like my Own in to the car.  ( see cotton Jammie's fat girl reference it. My picture will be there lol ) I turn around and it seems GROWN MAN had forgotten to put the car in Park.  DH had him by the collar and was dragging him out of the window of said sports car and the car was rolling because DH had pulled Grown Man out far enough he could not hit the brake.  OH LORD! this is going to take an intervention.  So I go over in my cotton Jammie's and I tell DH don't kill him you will go to jail.  Meanwhile DH is saying to this guy I'm her Dad and I'm going to prosecute you! Do you know what I do! for a living! and you are an adult do you know she is 15 do you do you, now this guy did not know what to do.  He was turning red,  car was rolling, Just Like my Own was crying and I was standing there in my jammies trying not to let DH kill GROWN MAN.  So I spring into action and tell DH calm down before you have a stroke and I never get to spend any of that money I'm thinking you could make someday.  He did stand back.

So Grown Man and I had a little talk.  Just a short one.  I let him in on some Hillbilly nature and advice.  I get Grown Man to step out of the car!  We stand there to have a civilized conversation.  Me in my jammies and all.  I say 'Grown Man, daddy there is my DH and he is a lawyer and he's going to get you thrown in jail.  Now me on the other hand I'm  not a lawyer.  I'm a mama!  That sweet baby with the goth clothes and the dark hair and black fingernails and white lipstick.  Well she is my precious Just Like my Own.  If you ever call my house, drive by my house, look at my house If you so much as send an airmail message to Just Like my Own, now I'm gonna cut your penis off.  Do you understand honey?  Daddy/Lawyer put you in jail.  Redneck/displaced/hillbilly mama will cut off your penis.  I have no idea if he believed me or not as I was very calm and folks I'm not usually calm.  He just looked at me with my fancy Sunday jammies and said "yes yes mam".  Here is where I had to say now don't mam me Grown Man I'm only about 5 years older than you.  He didn't say anything, I think he was stunned I had held up so well or maybe it was the full make up, big hair and fancy Sunday jammies.  Not sure.  I guess I should have ask. 

So Grown man gets in the car and speeds away. We take just like my own home and she starts spittin info out like you won't believe.  Seems she's scared of me.  COOL! DH burst my bubble though he said she's not scared of you, she's scared of what you will do.  PERFECT! I have now popped right up there from DH "new young wife" to crazy southern mama!  I am in Heaven!  Now you know me I can not leave well enough alone.  So I find out that Grown Man, has been calling Just Like my Own for along time.  He lives clear over on the other side of Dallas.  Now we all know why a Grown Man would come all the way over to Ft. Worth to see a 15 year old and it ain't cause she's selling girl scout cookies I'll tell ya.  So I found out where this grown man works and i was like ummm car dealership you say.  mmm hummmmm SO i call the dealership and I say ummm Mr. General Manager I'm in the car buying way, can I speak to your employee Mr. Grown Man car salesman?  He said I'm sorry he's sick today.  I laugh and say oooooooooooooooooo I bet he is.  I say Mr. General Manager I'll never buy a car from your dealership, because Mr. Grown Man car Salesman has been using your phone and your computer to stalk my JUST LIKE MY OWN.  I let him know that she was 15 and Mr. Grown man was about 24 and if this happened again I'd own is dealership because he was providing a way for grown man to communicate with young girl.  Now I have no idea what else he said .. I got the gist of it though.  The Gist was "family friendly car lot don't want grown man hitting on children".  Fired Mr. Grown Man yep Mr. General Manager fired Mr. Grown Man car salesman.  Worked for me.

Jennette Pruett/aka Just Like My Own
Graduation

Now that is being a crazy hillbilly mama at its best right there.   I didn't have teens and Just like my Own had turned me into my mama right there on the spot.  OMG! I have a teenager! Well it occurs to me right here! I'm going to be able to do this.  With alot of embarassing days for her, chuckles and panic from me we made it. Along the way its been a busy time.  I have kicked into Hillbilly on school teachers, friends, friends mama's, and the ultimate happiness is when I got to see Just Like My Own Graduate high school.  Of course true to Just Like my own Standards took place during a tornado.  That was somehow just right for Just Like My Owns Graduation!

Me and Just Like my Own on her wedding day.

Love you Jennette your daddy made me tell that story.  I know you hate it even makes it more fun to tell... LOVE YOU