My day started off very good actually. Sometimes I wake up moody and emotional but this particular day I was hype and ready. It was Saturday 12/6 the day I had been waiting for all month. It was Chestnut Storytelling time at Pete's Candy Store and it was the last show of the year along with it being a dressy occasion. I worked on my look all week I decided to go Afro Centric and it came out beautiful. Now here I am dressed, looking in the mirror practicing parts of the story I was going to share. Showtime was 5:30pm. It takes me an hour to get there because I catch two trains the F & the G. I yelled "She Ready" and headed out the door. The commute to Pete's went smoothly, the last show of the year was fantastic and I left on a natural high as usual. Happy with the way the audience responded to me and happy to get these stories off my chest because there are soooo many lol.
Now, I travel by myself a lot especially at night. I sometimes get off work at wee hours in the morning or I'm coming from an event. I do not carry weapons because I seriously don't think I need one. In fact I just packed up the two weapons I was given by some fellow New Yorkers that were concerned about my safety after they found out I traveled alone. When this situation happened I still didn't feel like I needed a weapon because on GOD I would've beat shit down this man's legs. Like I actually know that for sure it's not me talking big shit. Ok I get down to the train platform and this stinky drunk ass man that just finished publicly taking a piss on the platform brings his ass in my direction talking bout what's up pretty!
I was ready to snap the hell out just over that, but again I was dressed in my Afro Centric gear and I didn't want to give those ladies a bad rap so I simply said thank you and moved away. When the train came we were packed in like sardines and this man was all on my back. I'm thinking to myself, where the hell did he even come from again! Now he's pressed up against my ear whispering about how pretty I am and how good I smelled and how much he wanted to take me home! I was absolutely disgusted, there was nowhere to move and again I was about to snap out, but I didn't want to turn up and frighten the whole train car. When the train emptied out some I moved again and again he followed me. I turned around and half yelled YOU STINK and YOU'RE DRUNK go TF away!
At this point a woman and her boyfriend saw my issue and the woman aggressively told me to sit down. At first I didn't catch on but in a split second I got it and sat down. She stood in front of him and there was an Bengali guy sitting next to me and he was getting off; so the woman told her boyfriend to sit down next to me and she sat on the other side. The man is now mad swaying back and forth on the pole in the middle of the train car. Mumbling shit like "someone is going to die tonight". I started to smile really hard because in my mind it was most definitely going to be him. I looked to my right and homegirl was taking off her earring's and other jewelry. I thought to myself, oh this what we doing and started to take my earrings off too. We bout to jump this dumbass.
He started to get more flagrant and homegirl decided to move us to the next train car. We walked to the next train car as the train was moving. This dummy started to follow us to the point homegirl an her man was holding the train car doors closed. This man was really after me, I wasn't scared I was more annoyed. As the train made it's stops the man would try to run off the train to our car. Just then another man popped up and he came behind me and said "if he brings his ass on this train car I will body him". Now I'm like wow these people are really trying to protect me! I was overwhelmed with thanks because this situation could've gotten really nasty really quickly if I had to deal with it myself.
The homegirl looked at me and was like "Damn ion know what it is they must be able to smell that you not from NYC". I laughed and they asked me where I was from sometimes I say Los Angeles to be bougie but in this situation I stated my born and raised state. I looked and said oh I'm from Philly (Philadelphia) the good ole illadelph. They was like oooooooh that's why you didn't seem all that afraid. we all had a good laugh and then didn't this drunk fool find his way on our train car! He seemed less aggressive and more concerned about who was holding the damn door. Nobody paid him any mind this time and he actually sat his ass down but still mumbling bullshit. They asked me where I was getting off at and that's when I looked up and noticed I was on the E train. I usually take the F train home. I was hype tho because if this man followed me off the train he was most definitely getting his ass whooped on! Simply because I know all the weed dealers on that particular corner that the subway stop is on and they like to fight and I would've gotten me some lics in too, bing, bing, bing would've went my lil fist.
The homegirl and her boyfriend and the other guy wasn't getting off until the last stop and he didn't follow me off the train. Low key I kinda wanted him to because the ass whooping I would've given him would've been a serious stress reliever for me because I would've let every stress, anger, sadness and frustration right out on his drunk ass. Another part of me was thankful I didn't have to do that and there was also a part of me that felt suppressed because I didn't wile out at the initial start of things. Looking back now I'm glad that new me was protected and old me didn't have to show up because once that crazed lady is out the bag she doesn't know how to stop. I thanked those three amazing people for their help and got off the train. The thing that makes me laugh is the fact that I told a fight story at Chestnut and almost got into a fight on the way home. I wonder if I tell a story about a time when I had mad money will an insane amount of money appear on my way home next time.
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