Thursday, January 21, 2010

All in a days WTF!?

Coming out of work today my coworkers and myself were walking in the direction of the train... on the way we stop at the crosswalk and wait for the safest time to cross and there is a strange man waiting on the corner... he is skeptical looking because of the random paper back that he was carrying and the fact that it is 30 degrees in NY and he has his raggedy brown leather jacket open. He turns to us as we are chattering away, waiting for the crosswalk to give us permission to cross, and says are "youse guys teachers?"
we all say yes simultaneously... then "All of youse?" again the reply is yes... from that stand point he starts asking us where we are from, where we live, do we know who he is?

And of course there is always one person at work who engages the crazies... so my friend decides that she will start answering his questions...

He starts talking about all of the neighborhoods that she mentions and says that her neighborhood used to be all italian, that Spanish Harlem at one point was all italian, that towns and cities and neighborhoods all over the world were built on the blood money from the I-talian Mafia... and that he would know... then again asks "Do youse know who I am?"

Without waiting for a reply he continues to talk about Brooklyn and how my friends' neighborhood was all "Caribbean" then asked her four times if she was in fact Caribbean (even though her answered remained NO all four times)... then started to talk about how the I-talian mafia made a deal with the police in the 1960's to sell drugs in Harlem, and the cops ok'd it as long as it stayed in the black communities... then ranted about how it OF COURSE spilled into the white communities... and then back to Brooklyn with Spike Lee... and how he is the only "black panther, I mean black family living in his neighborhood"

WTF... this is what happens at the end of a day! WHOO too much... first crazy kids then crazy adults and now crazy strangers... all in a days work I guess...SMH

xoxo
Lulu

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