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May. 26th, 2006 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluebeardIt's becoming more and more difficult to be a pedestrian in midtown Memphis. Not just because of the heat -- it's ~95F right now -- but also because of people's attitudes.
It takes about an hour to walk home from my office. In that hour, I will get asked for a cigarette three times. I say no, then they go on to ask for money; I say no to that as well. I'll usually also get asked for something walking to get lunch, and going to the convenience store on break. Most of the time it's no big deal, I keep walking and they don't say anything else. Yes, it does get annoying to get so many beggars, but big deal.
The real problem comes when they wanna play violent, which is a quarter of the time. "You ain't afraid of me, huh? You got a problem? Bitch. Bitch-asss, it's just a fucking cigarette, goddamnit." Like THAT's gonna work.
They wanna make it a race issues as well: "You afraid of a strong black man? That's it, ain't it? You don't give nothin to a nigger, huh?"
What the fuck? I know I sound Protestant when I say this, but I make chicken feed, and I'm not about to go giving it away to strangers, whether they're white, black, male, female, or whatthefuckever. Maybe if it were more like once a week or so, I'd be more willing.
<--- attempting to document the reasons why he's been in such a piss-poor mood these past couple months.
It takes about an hour to walk home from my office. In that hour, I will get asked for a cigarette three times. I say no, then they go on to ask for money; I say no to that as well. I'll usually also get asked for something walking to get lunch, and going to the convenience store on break. Most of the time it's no big deal, I keep walking and they don't say anything else. Yes, it does get annoying to get so many beggars, but big deal.
The real problem comes when they wanna play violent, which is a quarter of the time. "You ain't afraid of me, huh? You got a problem? Bitch. Bitch-asss, it's just a fucking cigarette, goddamnit." Like THAT's gonna work.
They wanna make it a race issues as well: "You afraid of a strong black man? That's it, ain't it? You don't give nothin to a nigger, huh?"
What the fuck? I know I sound Protestant when I say this, but I make chicken feed, and I'm not about to go giving it away to strangers, whether they're white, black, male, female, or whatthefuckever. Maybe if it were more like once a week or so, I'd be more willing.
<--- attempting to document the reasons why he's been in such a piss-poor mood these past couple months.