Tuesday, February 27, 2007

If I had good sense, I would've been scared

If you have read some of my other posts, you may ask yourself why did Jaime & Brian buy that house on Munger in the hood? The answer is simple, the house was huge and had a good price. It also came with a whole lot next door that we could do whatever we wanted to do with it. Anyway at one point 3 years ago my bestfriend and I shared a car. (there's a story behind that but I'll tell that one another time) I went to pick her up from work one evening and realized I had dropped my cell phone somewhere between the house and the car. Iwent back to look for it but didn't see it, I didn't want to be late picking my friend up so I went on. I told her what happened when I picked her up and we looked for it when we got back to my house but we didn't find it. She took the car on to her house. Later the 2 of us were on the phone and she clicked over to answer another call. When she came back she said it was the guy who found my phone. Her number was the first number on my speed dial. The guy said he had my phone, Shwari (my friend) told him to call my home number and I waited for him to call. He called and he told me to meet him at the corner of Munger and Caddo, that was at the end of the street where the 2 big crack houses were. I told Brian where I was going he said no that was dangerous, let me go with you. Oh, let me say that I was about 5 or 6 months pregnant at the time. Also this took place after dark. So anyway I told Brian he couldn't go cause he looked like the police. I got Cozette and put her leash on and we walked down to the end of the street. The guy was there and was real cagey. "You that girl with the big dogs, he said." "Yeah, I said, do you have my phone?" He said yeah but that he was gonna need some money. I told him I don't have any money. I've got about 7 dollars at the house. He said he'd take it. So I went back to the house and switched dogs out. This time I was taking Juliet. Now Juliet isn't as big as Cozette but she makes up for it in meanness. I wanted to take Julie just in case he tried to run an "okie doke" on me. I got the 7 dollars and Juliet and started back down the street. When we got halfway down the block, Julie started growling. She was ready just in case anything "jumped off". When we got up to the guy she started to bark, I urged her to calm down. The guy said is that dog go do something to me? I told him no, not unless he gave her a reason. He asked me if I had the money and I said yeah, let me see my phone. He took it out of his pocket that's when I noticed he was wearing latex gloves.(I'll tell you about that in a minute) I gave him the money with one hand and had my other hand out to get the phone. That's the same way he did it too. I took my phone and I went home. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the hood, the guy was wearing the latex gloves because his line of work was "Illegal Pharmaceutical Sales".

1 comment:

Julie said...

I liked your use of words "Illegal Pharma Sales