Ig-Nant

     While at work recently, I had the pleasure of listening to a conversation between two young ladies that made my blood boil.  We were standing near the vending machines and I hear the exchange: “He won’t dare tell me how to spend my money!  Not even my DADDY can tell me how to spend my money!  I don’t care if he is my husband or not!”  What caught me off guard was this same type of phrase was used in a sermon recently.

Definition: ig-nant is short for ignorant. 

     Where did we go wrong when we raise ig-nant fools who go into relationships thinking they can talk like that about their spouses and think this is correct?  Seriously!!  I really don’t get it.  I was standing with a friend, looking at the vending machines and I could not believe my ears.  She seemed so intelligent and carried herself in such a professional manner, that this one completely took me by surprise.  She was acting like her husband was just a passenger on HER train.  Amazing! 

So I decided to sit near them in the lunch room so I could do some ear-hustling.  I couldn’t help myself because I was intrigued by her self-righteous attitude and I needed to find out how stupid this woman was.  She didn’t disappoint me.  She talked about her husband being only good for the occasional sex and his money.  She would often take his money and treat her girlfriends to a night out, clothes, jewelry and concerts. 

     The more amazing part was they thought it was so great to abuse a person you’re in a relationship with.  WTF?  You’re telling me this witch has the nerve to sit here and brag that she has put her husband in his place?  REALLY?  So let’s play this thing out and look at what she’s accomplished.  Let’s say that she has $50 and he has $50.  So in her eyes, she has $100 and he only has $50.  Now I know some smart a$$ gold-digger will cheer this ratio and say Amen.  But here is what will eventually happen:  Someone else will offer him $50 so that he has $100.  Believe that and don’t sleep on that.  Don’t ever think God won’t repay your bad behavior.  For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. 

     This ig-nant fool (Steve Harvey voice) will be the same chick in a later time frame, complaining because he stops giving her attention and money because someone else will give him that money he needs.  I just don’t understand how people can try to be so slick about things.  Yeah, your ig-nant a$$ (Steve Harvey voice) talked some ish and got one over on him.  At some point, her actions will catch up to her.  When this thing comes full circle, She will sit back and say, “I don’t know how this happened?”  If you do someone wrong, someone will eventually do you wrong.  Know dat.

     So was pulling this trick really worth the end result?  Did you have so little respect for them and yourself by trying to get over on a person, only to have it comeback to get you later?  I was really offended by the commentary of this young lady at the lunch table that day.  Eventually I felt sorry for her sorry dumb a$$ because she’s eventually going to have to sleep in that bed she made.

     I have one last problem with this.  What you say about a person, will eventually get back to that person.  This is especially true if it is negative.  You can talk ish all day long but be prepared to deal with the consequences when you throw the person who is paying your bills, under the bus.