Act like a lady and think like a man

Erika Tyler

Professor D.A. Broadous

PAS 113B

21 february 2012

There is this book called “Act like a lady and think like a man” became very popular in this generation. They are also making a movie based on this book. There is this girl that I know her name is Rosie who thinks like this and act like this since her last year of high school. Rosie was popular in the high school. A lot of boys wanted to get to know her or go out with her. She was smart and nice girl but she also had devil side of her such as (I’m going to play his mind).She got those concepts from her mother. Her mother thought her “you should know how man think. Be smarter than boys; do not give what they want. Most important thing is do not open up your leg because they are going to call you a “name” even though they do same thing like some of girls who get called by a “name” Let a boy follow you, Don’t follow boy. You have to be the charge of relationship and make sure you won’t be played by boy. So today I’m going to share her story, how she deal with this during her last high school year.

Hi everyone my name is Rosie and I’m sure you heard about me. I’m senior of Zama American High School. Right now I’m with this one of my guy friend who has been friend with me since sophomore year. He’s name is Alex. He’s very popular because girls think he’s cute which I don’t think he’s cute. He loves to drive around, acting cool and act like he’s stupid but he’s actually really smart and sneaky. Lately Alex is acting weird towards me, he’s asking me more hugs and he wants to pay for everything for me every time we hangout. More of his attitude made me thinks he has feeling toward me. Few days later He called my cell phone and asked “if I wanted to chill with him” I told him“yeah sure” but same time my mind said to me “Here he is. I knew he is going to ask me out soon or later” He picked me up from my house I was sitting next to him in his car. We were talking and listening to music and all the sudden his face was getting closer and closer and he end up kissing me. On first date he tried to kiss me? I said to myself “Oh no”! That’s the time I was really sure “He’s trying to play game with me”. I have known him since sophomore year, so I know how he is very well. He’s like female version player even though his gender is male. I know what he has done to the other females because of story he told me. So it was no way for me to go out with him. But I decided to join the game that he invited me to let him know how they feel like if someone is going to play your feelings and I wanted to just kill my time. Also it was good for me because he’s not that ugly. Few months past, he and I still playing game but honestly I was getting bored with this game because all we do is just drive around go watch movies and hangout with our friends which I hated because we have been hanging out with same people so I was definitely bored doing same thing over and over.

While I was thinking about how bored this is, I saw this one boy who was walking with his friends they were walking towards me and he smiled at me so I smiled him back I felt something and again I got an idea on my mind. Actually he’s very cute and also he’s friends cute too. I should get to know him. Now I have to think how to drop that current fish which holding on me to bring back that fish to the ocean. The plan I made was to make Alex say “it’s over” instead of I am telling Alex “it’s over”. To make that happened, I needed him to find a girl so I decided to lie to him and say “I’m grounded for month” As a matter of fact I’m really just hanging out with another friends behind Alex back a while he believed I have been grounded. According to my notes about him, if he can’t hang out with his main girl for a month or two He can’t take it and start to see the other girl. I waited about months so. Yes he did it, he found a new girl. My plan was perfectly working. We decided to break up and at the same time my plan was keep going. When people found out we broke up, they thought it was Alex’s fault because of he found him a new girl. People were supporting me and talking seriously bad about him. It is exactly how I planned but same time I felt little bit bad for him. But I said to myself this is called goes around comes around.

Few months past I was having great senior life, so many good friends around me and I received good grade. But the boy and his friends who smiled at me were still on my mind and I still wanted to get to know those boys .but to do so, I needed to hurry up because they were becoming really popular in our school .They can rap and they can ball and they got the looks. So I turned on my player mode and started getting closer to their friends for them to introduce me to the boys whom I target at. Few weeks later the time has come. Their friends introduced me to the boy name Jarmarcus and his boys. I wasn't really excited like more than I expected. We ended up becoming really good friend and also we became a one of a famous group in this school. But unexpected thing was happened. Jarmarcus started liking me but honestly I was not happy that he likes me. So I just play around and control him on my hand to make sure he is not closer to me. But he was kind a slow. Everything what I did for not liking me, it didn't work to Jarmarcus. Then I had to think about the other idea to let him make distance from me. During I was dealing with him, one of my friends had issue with her boyfriend. There is girls who just want to mess with her boyfriend and try to take him away from her. Of course guys are so slow and immature than girls so he didn't know what was going on. He was actually getting into her trap. My friend complained and explained how she is and what she is trying to do but he didn't understand and he was talking to her as friend. My girlfriend couldn't take the fact how stupid he was. So my friend decided to dump him. Before she dump him she give him this song called “Hope she cheat on you with a basketball player by Marsha Ambrosius” and she also blast that song out in my car and sing with my other friends. After singing same song so many times, she felt better so I took her and other friends home.

After few days, my friend’s ex-boyfriend started to go out with that girl who was messing with him. This happening really dropped his reputation and showed everybody how slow he was. But you know what, their relationship wasn’t last long. Next day my best friend whose name is “Dre” asked me to go eat lunch with him because he wanted me to listen to his problem, so we decided to meet up at taco bell around 11:00 am. While I was waiting for him at front of the taco bell I saw Dre and his friend who I really dislike was walking towards me. I was wondering why he brought that boy whom I don’t like. Because Dre knows I don’t like him. He is very mean person. But he is very good looking boy. I guess he knows he’s very handsome that’s why he has an attitude toward everybody like I am all that. Lots of girls wanted to get with him and it was just crazy to me. We went to inside Taco bell. We found the seat to sit down. But Dre was acting weird and put his friend’s stuff next to Dre’s seat so his friend can sit next to me. I was getting mad because I knew what Dre was trying to do but I hold my anger and try to act cool. Yes I was right. He’s friend Shaquille ending up sitting next to me. I really felt that something was going on. While we were eating, all I thought about was how much I really hate to be here with them. Because I know what my friend is trying to do. It is no way for me to go out with his friend because I had bad experience with him one time. One day I had to talk to Shaquille because I wanted to talk to Dre about the project which due was closed. So I asked Shaquille “Where is Dre?” he said “I don’t know” so I said “okay and Thanks”. I decided to wait for Dre at the school court yard and Shaquille staying right by my side. Shaq started talk to me again and gave an attitude like he is all that. I got mad but I told him “I am sorry but I don’t want to keep talking to someone that I don’t know very well and I am waiting for Dre. So can you leave me alone? Thanks” Shaq said “Yea that make sense” So we stopped talking. Since then, I have known that he has attitude problems. But now I have to deal with him again. I was ready for his attitude. But surprised me was somehow he was being so nice to me. I doubted him and Dre first. I thought they have some kind of plan and I was aware of it. But after I spent time with him, I don’t know why but I felt something different from him. I didn’t know what it was. But from that day we started to hang out every day and talk every day. We were always together but never got bored. I become his girlfriend I was actually happy but of course time is going by past, it eventually came to where I’m going to graduate soon and going to leave this place and him behind I was sad but at same time I was excited to graduate because I hate this school but I’m glad that I actually get to know Shaquille and become his girlfriend and met all these other nice people in this school but I eventually broke up with him because I am not type of girl who’s going to do long distance.