Conversations that transpired while walking around my neighborhood this past Friday:
Encounter 1: Lady buffalo stancing outside Family Dollar and Carlos's Supermarket: " 'Scuse me MISS. You got a dolla'??" Me: "Nope." Lady: "How about fifty cent? You got ANY change?????" Me: I shook my head emphatically and hurried inside towards my destination for Folgers and flip flops.
Encounter 2: While walking from Green Apple produce marketMan: (standing next to disheveled Black woman: "Scuse me Miss... you think you can give me and my friend here some money...." Me: Shook head emphatically and hurried inside.
**I come back outside from store**
Woman (beggar's friend), in a slow, drug induced drawl: "Scuse me... MISS. Can I have some..." Me: Shaking head so hard my neck pops, as I hurry down the street towards home... Woman (yelling after me): "Well, you got a CONDOM den??"Encounter 3: The best friend (Cat to those not in the know) visits. After settling in, we head back out at around 10pm... Cat, being the genius that she is... parks TWO WHOLE BLOCKS away! We stand and wait outside, in the mild night air, waiting to cross the street...
Condom Lady approaches... head lolled to the side as she lumbers over, like a corpse out of Night of the Living Dead: "Scuuuuse Me. Ladies... Ya'll got aaaany money I can..." Cat and I in unison: "NO!" We run out into busy traffic, desperate to get away from Condom lady. Bitch is lumbering towards us at a clip now!
We make it. I verbally abuse Cat for parking so far away!!
And Onward
Life has been somewhat busy. I'm still... still... settling into
my apartment. It is starting to feel a lot like home, however. With
several free acquisitions, a few priced next to nothing accents,
switching things around and figuring out (through trial and error) what works in
this particular space, things are starting to come together. I now have a
king sized bed and board (sans frame, but not dire) today. I'm excited. The bed
is huge. Bedding will be costly, but I plan on NOT paying more than 30 dollars
for king sized bedding.
Check out what's going on thus far
Oh and I also acquired this amdist the madness.
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I use a definitive "nope". I'm considering starting to ask them for change.
Just make sure you stay above the 250 thread count on the bedding... otherwise your skin will regret it. I used to look for the bed-in-a-bag sales and get everything for $50-60.
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