In the room: TJ, Melette, Original Diva

The Other Woman…
Diva: HEY
TJ: Hey yall
Diva: IT’S PARTY TIME! Good thing I have 2 full bottles of wine
Melette: Hey!!! How are you today?
TJ: I’m good. How are you?
Melette: I’m good. My grandmother is turning 90 next April. We have to plan something for her.
Diva: No surprises
Melette: She was giving me relationship advice this past weekend. Of course not.
Diva: I have figured out that older people don’t like surprises. They wanna see they shit coming.
Melette: Yeah. My grandmother has days where she refuses to leave the house.
Diva: Grand Diva say she wanna approve the guest list.
TJ: MWAHAHAHA Why does that not surprise me?
Diva: So………………..why does the other woman tell? (Going to get my wine)
TJ: Cause she stupid
Melette: Real stupid.
Diva: I just don’t understand…and like I said…..I been there……calling somebody and telling ain’t NEVA cross my mind…NEVA. Look at Monica Lewinsky. Why in the hell would you keep the dress???
TJ: I was thinking about her today
Melette: She knew what the hell she was doing.
TJ: I was like what the world…Here is the dress I was wearin when I sucked off the president? You show your kids that?
Melette: That’s why you can’t fool with a woman with an agenda. But men are so simple they can’t see that.
TJ: Girl, that’s how a Rhodes scholar falls for a free blow job.
Melette: There are some women in Tarboro that have been kept for 20 years or more and have always stayed in their lanes, cause they don’t want to mess up that good thing they have going.
TJ: They smart enough to GET PAID.
Melette: EXACTLY. I mean, if you are going to be a whore be a well kept well paid one.
Diva: Women do it every day though. I know a grown ass, college educated, uber intelligent woman who is laying with a man who tells her to keep it a secret.

The DNC…and Sex…
Melette: Okay, they are talking about Katrina now. This katrina footage is making me sad.
TJ: Girl You know it doesnt really affect me so much as it used to. It used to make me sad, and mad, and real mad. Now its like, I still aint cool with it…..but it is what it is.
Diva: That’s an interesting question……what will the next president do to rebuild New Orleans because OBVIOUSLY not enough has been done to date. It disturbs me that we as black people have not put ourselves in a position to be worth more in this election. I’d love to hear someone talk about what they’re going to do about HIV and AIDS…..especially since it affects us so much.
Melette: We don’t vote and we keep buying rims. That’s why we aren’t taken seriously.
TJ: Actually, The United States has the highest STD infection rate in the industrialized world.
Melette: That does not surprise me.
Diva: But talking about sex is just so taboo
Melette: Don’t talk about it. Wear some damn condoms. My sister told me that she was going to wait until she got married to have sex. I told her that i was bring her some condoms anyway. Just to be on the safe side.
Diva: Seriously though Melette…….where can people go to really learn the truth about sex?
Melette: I wouldn’t know. My parents and I didn’t talk about sex until after the fact and my mom smooth went the hell off and my Dad almost shot somebody.
TJ: Well my mother did talk to me about sex.
Melette: I talk to all my cousins and godchildren about sex.
Diva: I was knee deep in sex before I learned about stds.
TJ: She made it a point to talk to me because she grew up with her grandmother and the only thing she told my mama was that she wasn’t raisin no babies. WHAT! I learned about STDs in biology. Actually I learned about herpes in the fifth grade because there was an article about the disease in our weekly reader magazine and it was censored so I read up on it.
Melette: I took the class in middle school and got an a.
Diva: TJ……you need me to tell you again that you ain’t normal huh? And things haven’t changed much. the only talks that parents/grandparents/aunts/cousins have with young girls is don’t get pregnant.
TJ: I know that. I mean I’ve been at sorority meetings and been like ok I tell my babies all they body parts and…and sorors looked at me like I shot Jesus.
Diva: I was Greek before I knew about safe sex. I was working with Project Reassurance with the youth. I was learning right with them
Melette: WOW.
Diva: I used a condom because I knew I should. I wasn’t really educated though. But hell….I was a virgin until my sophomore year.
TJ: My Campus AIDS Prevention experience was part of my resume when I applied
Melette: I knew about all this mess before I was 18
Diva: Will that impact the way you talk to your children about sex?
Melette: Yes, it will. I will be totally up front with kids. Shoot, I will tell them, it feels real good. Sometimes you wonder how you can contain it. But it’s just like crack, the higher you get, the bigger the let down and just to be ready…mentally, spiritually, emotionally…physically.
TJ: My husband and I have told Al that sex is a beautiful thing that you share with somebody special…LIKE YOUR WIFE
Diva: Eventually sex is overrated.
Melette: No comment. I think it’s a personal thing.
TJ: I think intimacy is more important though
Diva: Chile……..after that year of celibacy……sex is overrated. That’s a good way to say it TJ………intimacy. Intimacy is what’s worth the hype. Intimacy is worth a cuddle…….sex won’t keep me from cutting all the lights on and walking you to the door.
Melette: LOL!!!
Diva: I’m telling the truth girl
TJ: Not even good sex? Blockbuster sex?
Diva: And after I got aware and responsible…….I had a bunch of sex. I can still count on one hand those that ain’t get the light cut on. One of them should have…guilt made me let him stay… and I’m STILL mad about it.
TJ: Damn….Diva all Morris Day on dudes….baby don’t get to comfortable cause I really like sleepin alone. Leave your number on the table by my databank. I love ya but ya gots to go.
Diva: I would get through and JUMP up….put on clothes, cut on lights, get to handing him shit get me a drink of water and take his hand and walk him to the door. GOOD NIGHT!
Melette: GANGSTA!!!
Diva: I wouldn’t do half that shit again if you paid me. That’s why I say sex is overrated…all that to “feel” good then I got to worry bout your feelings and shit or getting caught up and fooling myself. But I can’t see me telling anybody to wait to get married first.
TJ: I dont know. I feel like I could have waited until I got married. I’d advise all of my kids to
On Homecoming….
TJ: Maybe next year I’ll go to Gram’s homecoming and embarrass my sister.
Diva: I’m going this year and dragging him along.

Next week’s News & Views is about relationships. You’ve got the best of all worlds here….a single woman (Melette) who’s dating, a newly married chica (Original Diva) who knows the REAL DAMN DEAL on this honeymoon phase, and an old pro (TJ) with 13 years in the game. If you’d like to ask us any questions, please leave a comment or send me an email….if you’d like to remain completely anonymous then you can go to the “All About Original Diva” page and fill in the form.