So I'm on the bus Thursday and I'm standing next to a 40-ish black woman, very normal looking. She turns to me and says in a very friendly tone: "Hey,didn't I see you on the Max? Suire I did!" I reply something like "gee, I don't think so, I wasn't on the Max today." And then she says "Get away from me you dumb faggot."
WTF? My jaw just about hit the floor. She didn't even say the faggot thing like she was angry, just emphatic. I muttered something like "You're crazy, lady" and walked away. (I kinda wished I had a better rejoinder, but she WAS crazy, so anything wittier would no doubt have been a wasted bon mot.)
It was one of those instances so bizarre that it makes everything else seem all off-kilter for a while. Like you've pierced an invisible veil and are now in the land of the weird, a place that looks just like normal except you're a target for the attention of all manner of fucked-up people and events. After getting off the bus I was walking toward Powell and 52nd, already a slightly creepy area, and kept on looking over my shoulder wondering if there was some "dumb faggot patrol" of crazy ladies out looking for me.
That's my story, and now it's done.
WTF? My jaw just about hit the floor. She didn't even say the faggot thing like she was angry, just emphatic. I muttered something like "You're crazy, lady" and walked away. (I kinda wished I had a better rejoinder, but she WAS crazy, so anything wittier would no doubt have been a wasted bon mot.)
It was one of those instances so bizarre that it makes everything else seem all off-kilter for a while. Like you've pierced an invisible veil and are now in the land of the weird, a place that looks just like normal except you're a target for the attention of all manner of fucked-up people and events. After getting off the bus I was walking toward Powell and 52nd, already a slightly creepy area, and kept on looking over my shoulder wondering if there was some "dumb faggot patrol" of crazy ladies out looking for me.
That's my story, and now it's done.
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Methinks noone here knows Magnetic Fields because the only non-commercial station here is KBOO, which plays damn near nothing but reggae. No college radio. So, no Magnetic Fields. This week I'm on a Man or Astroman kick.
I paid to see Pia Zadora's "the Lonely Lady"...I think that was worst....
13-year old + dollar movie that might possibly show boobs = trouble