'...SHE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD NO SON LIKE ME ... who was so bad'

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Hello,'Later, my mother told me that I had been a bad boy kissing all over Velma and that I shouldn't do that and IF SHE HAD IT TO DO ALL OVER AGAIN THAT SHE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD NO SON LIKE ME WHO WAS SO BAD'I think I understand the meaning of this sentence here, but I'm not sure.Could someone help me?Thanks in advance.

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

'Later, my mother told me that I had been a bad boy kissing all over Velma and that I shouldn't do that and IF SHE HAD IT TO DO ALL OVER AGAIN THAT SHE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD NO SON LIKE ME WHO WAS SO BAD'
My mother told me I was bad because I kissed Velma so much.

My mother told me I shouldn't do that.

My mother told me that, if she had the choice again of having a baby, she wouldn't want to have a bad son like me. This is a terrible thing for a mother to say to her son.

Best wishes, Clive

Philip · Answer

CliveMy mother told me that, if she had the choice again of having a baby, she wouldn't want to have a bad son like me. This is a terrible thing for a mother to say to her son.

Best wishes, Clive

Some women just shouldn't be mothers.

Likeguslee · Answer

'Later, my mother told me that I had been a bad boy kissing all over Velma and that I shouldn't do that and IF SHE HAD IT TO DO ALL OVER AGAIN THAT SHE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD NO SON LIKE ME WHO WAS SO BAD'

This is an excerpt from Miles, an autobiography of Miles Davis, an American jazz musician acclaimed for his warm, often muted trumpet style.

I'm pretty sure Millard came to my sixth birthday party…. The real reason I remember that party was because I got my first kiss from a little girl there. I kissed all the little girls, but I remember kissing Velma Brooks the longest. Man, was she cute. But then my sister, Dorothy, tried to ruin everything by running and telling my mother that I was in there kissing all over Velma Brooks. My sister did this to me all my life; she was always telling on me or my brother Vernon about something. After my mother told my father to go in there and stop me from kissing on Velma, he said, "If he was kissing on a boy like Junior Quinn, now that would be something to tell. But kissing on Velma Brooks ain't nothing to tell; that's what the boy supposed to be doing. So as long as it ain't Junior Quinn he's kissing on, then everything's cool."

My sister left in a huff with her mouth stuck out, saying over her shoulder, "Well, he's in there kissing on her and somebody ought to stop him before he give her a baby." Later, my mother told me that I had been a bad boy kissing all over Velma and that I shouldn't do that and if she had it to do all over again that she wouldn't have had no son like me who was so bad.

This is how Miles described his mother:

My mother was a beautiful woman. She had a whole lot of style, with an East Indian, Carmen McRae look, and dark, nut-brown, smooth skin. High cheekbones and Indian-like hair. Big beautiful eyes. Me and my brother Vernon looked like her. She had mink coats, diamonds; she was a very glamorous woman who was into all kinds of hats and things, and all my mother's friends seemed just as glamorous to me as she was. She always dressed to kill. I got my looks from my mother and also my love of clothes and sense of style. I guess you could say I got whatever artistic talent I have from her also.

But I didn't get along with her too well. Maybe it was because we both had strong, independent personalities. We seemed to argue all the time. I loved my mother; she was something else. She didn't even know how to cook. But, like I said, I loved her even if we weren't close. She had her mind about the way I should be doing things and I had mine. I was this way even when I was young. I guess you could say I was more like my mother than my father. Although I've got some of him in me, too.

I presented these excerpts to show that context is very important before we pass judgment on another person.

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