So I was at the L’Enfant plaza metro platform waiting for the train to come while I was on my way to school. I was leaning a little against the escalator just minding my business when all of a sudden I hear
“MOVE YOUR DAMN BAG OUT THE WAY!!!”
Quite perplexed I turned around to see what was amiss. I see this old ass man making his way down the perpetually broken down escalators directly behind me. Apparently my big Puma bag was in his way. (Captain Obvious). So after the initial shock wore off, several thoughts went thru my mind in that instant as I stared him down. I thought ok ‘Som this man is old and senile just let it go….But he aint have to yell at me like that especially not in front of all these people…He must not know I’m grown’ Eventually I came to the decision to just let it go. Right then the man interrupts my thoughts and yells,
“DON”T YOU SEE A CRIPPLE WALKING DOWN THE STAIRS?!?!”
This man is crazy I let it slide the first time but no…you want to try and punk me out? SO I say, “SIR! You are going to have a heart attack now calm down!”
As he passes by me he looks me dead in the eye and says “I wish I had never seen you today!”
I immediately retorted “I wish you were never born!”
I think he was really taken aback that I said that right to his face. He must’ve had a flash back and thought he was back in the 1950’s in Mississippi or Alabama where they could talk to black people that way. I really think he did. So this man in this state begins to walk back towards me slowly, holding up his cane…YES…his cane!
In one of the most gangsta tones I have ever used in my life I said, “I DARE you to his me with that cane….I DARE you to hit me wit that cane!” That man came to his senses and finally walked away without a peep.
Yo I swear if that man woulda hit me wit that cane it woulda been a real ugly situation. He may have found his cane suddenly thrown into those trains tracks or his ass on the ground. One of the two. All that man had to do was say excuse me and I would have been right out of his way. But he thought he could yell and threaten this negro girl and have me say “I’s sorry boss…shine ya shoes for ya?”
FFFFFFF Thhhhhaaaaaat! I don’t know what I did to deserve this in another life but it was just too much
