Changed Man
So today a few of us were sitting at Texadelphia for lunch (the one downtown that took over Wendy’s @ 7th & Congress). We were close to the door, but my back was to the door as I was watching the TV. I see a shadow next to me and “feel” someone behind me. You know how you can just feel someone is behind you sometimes, it was like that. Then the smell hit. It was a vagrant. I didn’t think much of it until I saw an arm next to my shoulder. WTF?! A hand in my fries. WTF?! I look up and see this homeless lady gobble a handful of my fries. Holy WTF?! Thank god I was done eating already. She walked off. I sat there staring at mamacita and another lunch companion. I can’t believe I didn’t do or say anything. What kept me in my chair?
After the moment had passed logic started to set in. What would happen if I got up and kicked this bum’s ass right here in the restaurant? Is that the kinda image I want to portray? Beating up a homeless woman? Over some fries? Still, those were my fries. My thought process was cut short by her reappearance, this time to the front of me.
She grabbed for my drink. This time I was not caught so off guard. I pulled it away and said “NO! I’m not done with that!” Then I even offered her the rest of my fries “I’m done with these if you want them.” She sorta shook her head and walked out the door. Then it hit me, she was special. Wow! I almost got up and kicked a slow hungry female vagrant’s ass in the middle of a restaurant. How narrowly I avoided an event I would have surely regretted for years.
I’m certain a year or 2 ago, I would have at least slapped her hand and verbally assualted her. I am perplexed at both the audacity of the vagrant and my ability to restrain my violence. I had genuine sympathy for her (which is against my nature). It’s funny, as I tell the story to people, people who know me, they all come back with “I bet you flipped out”. I don’t know what kept me from just going postal, but I didn’t.
June 7th, 2005 at 3:06 pm
that’s awesome. one time on campus a squirrel came and ate one of my chicken nuggets, and I grabbed the fucker by its ass and bits its head off.
it’s good not to get in fights with homeless people. they’ll stab you with aids.
June 7th, 2005 at 3:22 pm
Man…what restraint…I would have let ole’ Ms. Corky have it…some homeless tard for steal’n a hand full of my sliced fried potatoes…and then to have the nerve to come back for a swig of my frosty beverage…HELL NO….I would of unleashed a flurry of fists on her until she lost sight of daylight….HAHAHA…that is too funny…I would have made a big scene…that is funny shit…..really…I would have prolly jus sat there like you did..not realizing what happened….dazed and confused….and by the time I processed what jus happened…she would have made off with my whole sack lunch…
June 7th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
Riding the “cravey” train! haha! priceless!
I’m ashamed. it seems you copy & pasted quotes from your blog into the e-mail.
Isn’t the geeks’ list worth a little bit MORE of your time than a copy &paste?
No, but seriously, ms. corky or not, that behavior can’t go unpunished. that’s probably why she’s homeless in the 1st place.
She was the spoiled brat in a rich family that always got her way, and when the professors in college didn’t think she was hot enough to earn a casual blowjob “c” in economics, you dropped out and started doing coke.
Well, enough of Ms. Corky’s back-story. as long as you didn’t find a lawsuit-induced-finger in your food, you’re gravy, man, gravy.
June 7th, 2005 at 3:29 pm
way to go, poontang.
June 7th, 2005 at 3:32 pm
yes, I did not come up with original writings for my email to the geeks’ list. However, if I felt I said it as best as I could say it on the blog, why replicate the effort to only lead to probably second class work in the email?
June 7th, 2005 at 6:14 pm
man that’s pretty interesting…. i wouldn’t have done anything myself. i probably would have offered her my fries but i’m sexist. if it was a man i would probably be pissed. i still open doors… not to mention i think women should get half of what a man’s pay is(after taxes) so……….
June 7th, 2005 at 6:15 pm
puss ^^
June 7th, 2005 at 6:15 pm
btw, take a picture nex ttime
June 7th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
the funny thing about austin is that its like no other. travel the world and see bums similar, i think not! eat at a place that took over a wendy’s… i think not. you should have bought the lady a beer. be a man! austin is tha crank.
June 8th, 2005 at 6:02 am
Wow that is too much….I think your response was right on target…especially after you saw that she was special. I would have freaked….but we don’t have homeless people come into eat….hell we all look like we are homeless down here….hehehe. That was pretty brave of her to do that….she must have been very hungry. At least you didn’t grab her and bit her head off.
June 8th, 2005 at 6:36 am
Hey man, great story. It’s events like this in our lives that weigh our ability to do what is right. Things that make you step back and really think about what happened and what the right thing to do it.
Next time you might decide to just buy her a small meal. I am not a big fan of social welfare programs for various reasons, but I am big fan of people doing the right thing and offering help to those that truly need it and this certainly sounds like one of those people.
You won’t forget this experience…