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Meanwhile on the Max

While reading a book,   the woman seated in front of me turns around to ask, "Do you like sock puppets?"  Before I could tell her to turn her ass right back around, she shows me both her hands with socks on them, and she looks at one and says " My name is Susie, ' and she looks at the other one and says in a deeper voice "and I'm Bernard, and I'm-----" "I don't wanna be rude, but please turn around and stop talking to me," I said. Then with the Susie puppet, she says "someone's have a really real really awful day. Let's try to lift his spirits." "I warned you, " I said, adding " I asked you to stop bothering me." She then got quiet and turned back around.

Meanwhile @ Goose Hollow

So, all I had to do to get this guy to end his loud phone call and put his phone in his pocket, was to look up from my book and turn around to look at him sternly for about 20 seconds. He didn’t even say good bye to whoever he was talking to. He said ‘ sorry sir.’ I turned back around to read my book.

"don't help me!"

This older woman was staring at me so hard that she walked right into a pyramid of cantaloupes and fell face down , melons going everywhere. I ran over to help her and she said ‘don’t help me!’ So I didn’t. I walked back to my shopping cart and watched as she struggled to get up before letting other people help her. Smh

only 1 empty seat

So, I’m sitting on the train, with my headphones on, minding my business, and at the next stop this man is with his wife ( the seat next me is the only empty seat on the train) enters the train, looks at the empty seat and at me, and he says, “my wife and I would like to sit together.” And I said, “then you’ll need to find 2 empty seats.” He and his wife stood there and looked at me for about 10 seconds and I sat there staring back as the man breathed heavily and they both walked away. I don’t know what they were expecting. Actually I do-they wanted me to get up, but it wasn’t gonna happen. Not today. Not ever.

What doesn't kill you...

This morning an older woman on the train said to me; "I would sit next to you but you look so mean and angry and intimidating so I'm just gonna stand." I looked at her, and went back to reading my book.

The back talk

@ Pioneer Square a few minutes ago ...I didn't hear what the younger girl said, but the older woman said: "Babygirl, What's that on your mouth? Is that back talk?" The girl didn't respond. The older woman said ; "Well let me get rid of it for you." Then she backhanded the girl across the face.

The Liar

So, I sat down next to this woman on the train. She says, ‘just to warn you, I have head lice.’ So I get up immediately, and I move about 6 feet away on a train that’s about to be full of people. At the next stop I paid attention to her warning a guy that sat down next to her. She smiled at him and said hi, and he said hi back. I watched as she eyed him up and down : she didn’t warn him, so I did. I said to him, ‘she warned me as I sat down next to her at the previous stop that she has head lice, just so that you know.’ He said thanks and he got up immediately. She said ‘ why did you tell him that?’ I said so I could warn him like you warned me, and for as long as I’m on this train, I’ll help warn every male passenger that sits down, just in case you don’t.” She made a big sigh and she got off at the next stop.

Overheard in line at Safeway Pharmacy

“Muthafucka keep it real. You can't find no woman ,'cause your bitches gotta have their own hair. Ain't no body trying to wear their real shit. You better go back to the 70s.They getting their hair from Indian women like or from the tails of horses. Look at my hair. Grown in Calcutta.”

Re: Viola

This man and woman were talking about   ABC's  Thursday night tv line up and the  woman said "That Viola Davis- i think that's her name. She aint no Halle Berry  but  Kerry Washington and she is okay looking for a dark-skinned woman until she took off her wig and eyelashes and wiped that make up off." "Yeah what was that about?" I wasn't going to be silent about the comment. I said; "Correction.  Halle Berry, Viola Davis, and Kerry Washington are three gorgeous black women, period, end of sentence."