Stories From the Hood
This is my first Stories From the Hood entry on this bolg. If you’d like to hear other Stories From the Hood, like how dan got his car stolen twice in two days, or the morning we found a head’s worth of hair extensions on our front porch, or my favorite, the whole neighborhood thinks our house is a gay brothel, check out my old bolg.
So last night we had another what the fuck moment in the hood. I heading to bed after just finished up scoring, folding and hole-puching about 100 envelopes. Lisa had already gone to bed, sick as I’ve ever seen her. As usual, I fell right to sleep.
I don’t know what time it was… i guess it had to be just after sunrise, but I was awoken by the sound of a car alarm going off while a man was yelling non-stop. Now yelling in the hood is not anything new… but shouting a different form of “shut-up” using the complemenatry words like “fucking” “fuck” “Jesus Christ” “mother fucker”… for about 2 minutes straight was a bit different. The shouting faded… I passed it off as nothing and fell back asleep.
I don’t know how much time had passed… i’m guessing about 10 minutes… again I was awoken to the sound of a car alarm and the same loud mean voice yelling “fucking shut-up… shut-up motherfucker… jesus christ shut the fuck up… shut up… fucking shut up motherfucker…” and on and on and on… and on. This time Lisa was super annoyed, and ran to the bathroom to puke. I still passed it off as another night in the hood… and said, i think they are fighting. And fell back to sleep.
Again… just as if i was working the snooze… I was woken up by a car alarm and the same guy yelling the same shit. Now I was curious. What the fuck is going on in the hood tonight? Lisa climbs over me to look out the window and said, “There’s a fat man outside yelling at that car.” i rollover to look, but without my glasses all I could make out was a big round thing yelling at a car across the street. “What the fuck is going on in the hood tonight?” I said as I fell asleep.
This pattern continued 3 more times throughout the morning.
I have no idea.
