A. "Are you my daddy?" That's one of my favorite lines from "Don't Be a Menance to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood." Ok, but now those lines are truly significant to me. (side note:my dad is officially not allowed to call me at work.) Yesterday he called me with bad news and today....well today's announcement was MORE so crucial.
This is a TRUE story. It really happened. He calls me just before lunch and the conversation went like this:
Dad: Hey
Me: Hey dad, what's up?
Dad: I just called to inform you that the Sheriff just came by looking for you.
Me: (thinking wtfmate) what for?
Dad: You have to go to court
Me: Did I witness a crime
Dad: No you have to defend yourself. Someone is accusing you of something
Me: Of what?
Dad: They accusing you of being someone's father
Me: *laughing* You know April isn't for another two months right?
Dad: I'm not laughing and I'm not joking. Your court date is May 5th, this girl had the baby in 2001. You've not been telling me somethings? Have you?
Me: You know everything there is to know. It's not possible for me to be this girls father. What's her name? Where does she live?
Ok so you get the jist of the conversation. I had never heard of the name he said, but at this point I was angry. I was told that someone says I'm their baby's father and now I have to go all to SC to PROVE that I am not. What kind of sense does that make? The sad thing about it is, if I didn't show up, I would have to pay child support for this kid, from a girl that've NEVER MET. At this point I figured from the information that my dad gave me was that she did a search for my name, looking for a guy with the same name as mine, on the internet and got my address and put it down hoping it was the right one, and GUESS WHAT? IT WASN'T! My father did a search and got this girl's number and CALLED her. By the time I got home from work the situation had been revolved; no court date anymore, etc. She even got the real address of the guy, who oddly has my first and last name and middle initial. I guess if I was your average guy that situation would have scared me, but since I'm me it just really pissed me off. But it's all good. Time to get ready for work tomorrow