It’s not every day you get to meet the worst mom of the year. Actually, she’s pregnant, so she’s really the “future worst mom of the year.”
I’ve met some bad mothers in my time as an officer, but this latest one deserves mentioning. I got to meet her at an unknown trouble call the other day where people were possibly fighting at a house.
When I arrived, I parked a few houses down. There was a woman outside where I parked and she asked if everything was alright.
I said, “We don’t know yet. We’re going to a house down the street.”
“It must be the drug house,” she said with a smirk.
“Which house are you talking about?”
“The green one,” She replied.
Yep. She was talking about the house we were going to. When we got to the green house, the “future mom of the year” was contacted by other officers at the front door. She came outside and I spoke to her to try and figure out what happened.
She was in her early twenties and didn’t make sense. I started to wonder if she was stealing oxygen from the rest of us or if she had other issues.
After about five minutes, I was sure she was an oxygen thief. She was the perfect example of the old “This is your brain on drugs” commercials.
I asked her when she last took speed. She said, “Recently.” She wasn’t tweaking now, but I’m sure “recently” meant today.
I continued to waste my time with her as I tried to find out what happened when she told me she was pregnant. I have no idea why she brought that up because I didn’t ask. I then asked her how far along she was. She would only tell me she was a few weeks pregnant.
I’m asked her how long she had been doing speed. At this point, she figured out she said too much. She told me it didn’t have anything to do with the reason why we were there. She also told me it wasn’t any of my business.
I walked over to where her mother was and asked if her daughter was pregnant. The soon to be grandma said her daughter was one month pregnant. I also asked her how long her daughter had been doing methamphetamine. The woman said her daughter had been doing speed for about a year.
I asked her if she had ever spoken to her daughter about drug use and being pregnant. The woman said her daughter told her to mind her own business.
I asked if she knew who the “baby’s daddy” was. This caused the woman to smile. I said, “I just like saying the phrase baby’s daddy,” which caused her to laugh.
She said, “His name is Frog.”
“Frog? As in not a prince?”
“I only know him as Frog. He’s short.”
Well, where do you go in a conversation after hearing the Baby’s Daddy is Frog?
Let’s just hope this kid isn’t born looking like a frog because of her drug use. It’s a shame because this kid has no chance.
By the way, I called child protective services to about this. They told me they don’t take reports unless the child is already born. Oh well, I tried.
So sad. As a traffic guy, I’m lucky to not have to go to calls like that. When I was standing there with this one, I knew she was going to be a blog story for sure.
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That is such a shame. And happens every day, I’m sure. My heart hurts for everyone involved.
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It’s pretty sad it has to be like that.
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