Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Hold the bus for the angry transexual and clear out the tatoo parlor

This story happened during one of my first few weeks working in Hollywood. I was was standing at the bus station on the phone with my mom when a bus stopped. It wasn't my bus, so I just stood there waiting. As I was on the phone I looked to the left to see a gigantic mannish looking woman in an ugly purple dress lumbering down the sidewalk. Now, being preoccupied on the phone, I didn't put it together that she was trying to make the bus, and the bus left, leaving her in the dust. Her run slowed to a walk and she kept coming towards me and said in a terribly low voice, "Thanks for holding the bus you fucking asshole." I was astonished. Since when was it my responsibility to hold the bus for people that I'm not even sure are riding the bus? Anyway,s this woman kept giving me the evil eye and even got on my bus when it came. Fortunately she got off soon after, and I was able to return to my apartment, unattacked by a huge scary woman.

Another encounter with a separate crazy woman happened 2 weeks ago when my roommate and I were walking across Hollywood to meet some people for dinner. We were walking toward Hollywood and Cahuenga when we hear this woman sitting on a bus bench shrieking. She said something to the effect of: "Don't act like you can't hear me over there. You're a pretentious fucking asshole you know that. You just pretend like I don't exist. I know that you're a self righteous ass, so come over here and let me show you who's boss" and so forth. My roommate and I walk by her and look across the street to see who she's yelling at, and the only person over there is some guy standing in the doorway of a tattoo parlor talking on his cell phone. I looked to my roommate as we reached the corner and said to him, "I can't believe that woman was that crazy". At that moment I hear the same woman's voice in my right ear and what do you know, she standing right next to me. she started to babble about that guy and how he was such an asshole, but I pretended like I was trying to have a conversation with my roommate. Never before have I had so much trouble trying to talk as this scary woman was blabbering in my ear. When the walk sign came up we took off across the street and made it to the restaurant.

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