"I just turned sixteen last week," she said. "But I don't have my license yet." "You sound like you're from New Orleans," Debbie told her, doing her best to pronounce it N'Awlins. Whoadie nodded. "I live in the Ninth Ward," she said. "That's actually where my nickname comes from. Whoadie is how the locals say wardie. That's a person who lives in the same ward as you," she explained. "My parents called me Whoadie ever since I was a baby. I didn't always like it, because there were some boys at school used to call me Whoadie the Toadie all the time. But then I punched their fucking lights out and they stopped."