6 posts tagged “i wanna go home”
FireSafetyGurl* 4:41:45 pm 7/4/07
Happy 4th of July to all! Be safe n enjoy!! SMILE!
((I know she aint advising other people to be safe, with her wild a$$!))
DolphinsFanGurl 9:20:18pm 7/4/07
At the drive in. Will call you when its over. Watchin the transformers
((They still have drive-ins in Florida? With all those tropical storms?!?!?!))
YankeesFanGurl 9:47:21pm 7/4/07
Okay watchg fireworks
YankeesFanGurl 9:49:49pm 7/4/07
R u watchg fireworks?
MetsFanDude 9:50:27 pm 7/4/07
No
YankeesFanGurl 9:53:39pm 7/4/07
In my house watchg pops concert. Rain.
MetsFanDude 9:54:38pm 7/4/07
Raining here too
YankeesFanGurl 9:57:08 7/4/07
Ur fireworks are okay though. Saw some macys nyc fireworks on nbc
MetsFanDude 10:00:23 7/4/07
U saw more than me. Didn’t interest me too much this year
YankeesFanGurl 10:06:35 7/4/07
The live concert in BOS is good. But the fireworks in NYC are better
MetsFanDude 10:08:13 7/4/07
Cant have them both
((Aint nevah lied about that! I been tryin' to have both for like seven years!))
YankeesFanGurl 10:10:34 7/4/07
Ur right about that
*Fire Safety Gurl is my neighbor who got her name because she came to one of my house parties and described a sexual encounter she and her ex had on a lit stove. We dont call her that to her face, but that is the name we know her by.
7:55pm Sunday it was ORF to PHL Then it was supposed to be PHL to BOS at 10:45pm Sunday But the crew for PHL to BOS got held up in SFO due to a terminal - clearing bomb scare, so they didn’t make it to us until after 11:00pm Sunday So we didn’t leave Philly till 11:30pm Sunday We touched down at Logan at 12:30am Monday when me and another guy were running like OJ to get to curbside to catch anything smoking back to Boston… but not a cab, because NO cabdriver deserves twenty five dollars for ten minutes of work At 12:45am Monday me and Liam caught the last Silver Line "high speed" bus to South Station 12:55am Monday The Silver Line driver called ahead for us to see if we could catch a subway train when we got to Boston, but we missed the last subway train (Boston having a curfew for grown people and an apparent sweetheart deal with the taxicab industry) So at 1:00am Monday I got off the Silver Line in front of South Station which, of course, was locked up tight, causing me to have to walk three blocks to the nearest ATM at 1:10am Monday morning At 1:15am Monday, now three blocks from South Station and any cabs, I roll my suitcase down the street three more blocks to Summer Washington and Winter and stick my hand out to catch a cab… trying hard not to look homeless, hooker-ish or strungout-ish Two cabs and a curious police cruiser passed me by, before Lucien stopped for me, at 1:25am Monday popped open his trunk in dramatic fashion and drove me toward North Station. As he took an unnecessary scenic route and offered to “take me all the way home” if I missed my train, I explained to Lucien in a calm even voice that I was already home and that he should just take me to North Station like I asked him to do When he tried to bump the meter up by turning left on New Chardon, I stuck my head through the plexiglas and encouraged him in a slightly elevated tone to take a right down Portland Street and let me out at the seven eleven like I asked him to do He continued to ask me where I lived until I got out of his cab at 1:33am Monday at the seven eleven I handed him the fare in exchange for my suitcase from the trunk I made it into seven eleven picked up some suaves colores in lime green, salted in the shell and sixteen ounces of grapefruit juice and made it home by
1:55am Monday.
No you cant have that one.
Why not!?!?!
Trust me you dont want to want that one ((holding forehead)) Oy Vey!
Well can I leave Boston?
Somebody needs you here, somebody needs your help here.
Well tell me who it is! We can both go to New York and Ill help them there!
((Laughing))
Well you cant leave me here by myself! Everybody's gone. Everybody I came here with is gone! Everybody I met when I first came here is gone! People I know who were born HERE left and moved to NEW YORK! I didnt sign up for this! You know I hate being by myself! I wanna go home! I dont see why I couldntuve stayed home in the first place!((crossing arms pouting))
Look! You needed to be someplace else on September 11th, okay?
Okay so, that was almost six years ago... I dont understand...
You will!
Bon Nuit Mes Enfants
2:32am May 1st, 2007 ((siren, light and voice fire alarm go off, throwing nightgown on, sticking my head out the front door, seeing neighbor walking the hall, ringing small hand bell))
What's going on?
Im ringing the alarm
Is it a fire?
I dont know
Well Im coming down anyway
Do you want me to wait for you?
Oh no Man, Im all set, Im right behind you
2:37am May 1st, 2007 ((walking down the hall in boots, no socks, jeans, no drawers, nightgown on backwards, coat, zipped up, cell phone in pocket, pocket book on arm containing passport, wallet, keys, tying hair up in scarf, ol' lady neighbor in hallway))
The second alarm didnt ring
I know
I hate when this happens
Me too
Ima call down to the front desk and see what's happening
Hmm Okay ((leaving down the staircase, walking down from seven, with the other Black and Latino neighbors who are from the 'hood and dont play with no fire alarm in the middle of the night, wtf?))
2:39am May 1st, 2007 ((out front now with seven fire trucks, three with their ladders up, Black female firefighter putting the hydrant together, two ambulances, three police cars, NBC news truck, three nosey a$$ cab drivers, the street cleaner zamboni, about forty of my neighbors, some inside the doorway with young children and newborns, Im crossing the street with my photographer neighbor))
Hey!
Hey Gurl!
Im tired of these people burning their food ((taking pictures))
Okay?!?! But what are they cooking? I burn my food all the time and I never set off the whole building. If you open the front door the whole building goes off! Take some pictures off those fools on their terrace looking off...
I dont have my long lens. I met that chick who had the fire last time. She's not wrapped too tight ((circling left ear with index finger))
Yeah, I met her on the grocery store bus one time.
Well, once she told me that the white woman who was running against Deval Patrick...whats her name?
I know who you mean
Well once she told me that Kerry Healey had some good points during the debates? I stopped speaking to her.
Sayin'! I just got back to sleep. I fell asleep with the TV on, and the Emergency alert woke me up at 12 Midnight, talking about some Amber Alert. Non-custodial parent taking her child? I just got back to sleep... and then this!
Too many false alarms, I wouldnt be down here now, except to take pictures.
Well, being Im from New York, I leave any building that sounds any alarm of any kind.
I understand. We have a lot of new young mothers in the building.
They do need to keep it full
Yeah but they gonna make a mistake like they did when the building first opened
What's that?
Moving in a whole bunch of folks who ((whispering)) ...dont know how to live Downtown
Un uhn! ((laughing))
See you later!
Alright!
2:47am May 1st, 2007 ((still across the street, calling my sister on the cell, she picks up groggy))
Hello?
Hey, sorry to call you. But Im outside my building with six firetrucks, two EMS and the Eyewitness News
Un uhn!
I wouldnt have called, but it looks serious. They have three ladders up on the building. Man, we were just taking about carrying your box out during a fire. All I had to take this time is my passport, license and debit card. I can replace everything else with those.
Wow!
Well, Im just calling to say Im okay. Ill call back if the building blows up or something
No we can stay on longer
Okay... Sayin' its almost three oclock. Im never out this late, even when I go to the club, Im home by now. Im seeing stuff Ive never seen before. Empty cabs, I even saw a street cleaner machine! I been here six years and Ive never seen the street cleaner!
((both laughing))
I even saw a Black lady firefighter with dreds out front hooking up the hydrant.
Yeah?
They say it was somebody's stove again. But I wanna know how you can have a kitchen fire on an electric stove. Then again, when you cooking and your alarm goes off, everybody knows you wave it with a kitchen towel and open a window... what is it? Deydohknow? This their first apartment??!?!
Okay?!?!?
Oh ...they retracting the ladders, so I guess we can go back in. Sorry to call so late.
That's okay
Alright, Ill talk to yall later
3:15am May 1st, 2007 ((crossing back, walking toward building, talking to the Sista Firefighter))
Hey
Hello
((whispering)) Im glad to see a Sista working on the force. Im proud to see you.
Thank you.
3:17am May 1st, 2007 ((in the lobby, with neighbors all in pajamas, boots and coats, hair f*cked up, trying to listen to the convo between security and the Firemen to get the scoop))
Can we go up? Are the elevators on?
I hope so, I dont wanna walk up
I know what you mean
I smell smoke
Me too
((Big Burly Black Fireman in Charge makes an announcement))
Yall can go upstairs now, its safe
((half the neighbors stay downstairs to get the gossip, I go upstairs, Its a small building, I can get the scoop tomorrow morning))
3:45am May 1st, 2007 ((calling downstairs to security, leaving a message))
Hi. This is ChezNiki in seven twenty-six its about ten of four and the fire alarm in my apartment is still on. When you get a chance... not an emergency or anything, could you call back and tell me if I should leave out again or what? Thanks.
3:49am May 1st, 2007 ((phone ringing, reading Caller ID, its Security calling back))
Hello?
Hi. This is Eddie from Security.
Yeah
Everything's okay, Grinell is coming out now to turn those alarms off. Their truck just pulled up outside.
Oh okay. What happened earlier?
There was strong smoke coming out of the laundry room through the vent all the way up to nine and ten and I didnt want to take no chances
No. No, gotta play it safe. Nothing wrong with that. Okay, well thank you.
Okay. Good Night.
* I sleep naked
SouthBronx: Well if it was just you, or just me, I would say something different. But its not us, this is happening to all professionals of color in New England, everybody I talk to. Jackie moved back here, Samantha, Sara Shay... I saw on the internet where ten thousand people left Eastern Mass just last year alone. I bet those were people of color who couldn’t get their careers started.
WestEnd: ...Natti moved home last month. Venia said she's gonna go home and move in with her mother in Brooklyn. She cant take it anymore. Debra moved there with her new husband...
SouthBronx: ...and took six of his kids with ‘em
WestEnd: ((laughing)) Sh*t! My shrink is Jewish and she even moved to New York!
SouthBronx: ((laughing)) Yeah, there’s nothing for us up there. Bea fought tooth and nail to put herself through school, all that promise for finishing your education and she’s working in childcare!
WestEnd: Working where?
SouthBronx: Childcare. Nothing wrong with working in childcare, if you want to... but that’s not her field.
WestEnd: Sayin’! Its like a punishment if you have your degree up here.
SouthBronx: I say take the job they are offering, but don’t for a moment stop looking for work outside of New England. The only difference, instead of being home on your computer looking for work, you will be on their computer looking for work. Just make enough so that you don’t have to move back home before you are ready... you know without a job.
WestEnd: Sayin’! But just once, just once, I really want to ask those people at the employment agencies, "You are a legal search firm and I am an attorney. Why are you sending me to a filing job with the State?" or "I have more education than you and everyone sitting on the left side of your office. Why are you trying to send me to a f*cking data entry position?"
SouthBronx: That’s part of the problem too.
WestEnd: Oh what? You think they jealous?
SouthBronx: Yeah and racist. You already know the answer. They would never tell the truth.
WestEnd: Yeah, but I would love to ask them directly and see them squirm. One day I just want to get on the phone and ask them, "Yo! What the f*ck?!?!?"
((both laughing))
YankeeFanGurl Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:36:57 EST
Cash bar and no men under 60 to flirt with so I could get a freebie. But it was a fundraiser for a good cause so Im glad I went to support.
