Thats What I Get for Trying New Thangs
Original Post Date: April 24, 2006
One of the first things I had to get use to in LA was the fact that most apartment buildings have shared laundry facilities. Now for me I have grown accustom to washing my dirty underwear in the privacy of my own home but I said ok I’ll do the whole when in Rome thing and plus I figured it may be a great way to meet some interesting people. I was wrong/right. ha ha
Yesterday I was in the laundry room and on our floor there are only 3 machines one of them never works. So Im putting my laundry in the one available machine that works when this guy walks in and starts putting his clothes in the machine that never works. So of course I say to him, oh that machine never works to which he replies, Oh…dont worry Ill get it to work…Im a WITCH. In my mind I say, Como say what? Now Im looking for the joke, the laugh, the smile, the something…it never came. The only thing that did come was him immediately following the ‘Im a WITCH’ comment with the question, Whats your name? You really think Im about to tell you my name so when I leave you can take one of my pair of boxers out the wash and start casting all kinds of spells on me? Not the kid
I know to some people who have been living in LA for some time this story may sound very normal but Im from Baltimore MD, we dont just kick it with WITCHES. Im still trippin the man said he was a WITCH. To throw another element in to the WITCH pot if I may, the dude was a brother. So he wasnt just a WITCH he was a black WITCH. Im just going to go out on a limb and make a bold statement and say that being a WITCH is something black people just don’t do. Ok I have now just got confirmation the NAACP, the Rainbow Coalition and the people over at www.BlackPeopleDontBecomeWitches.com, are all in agreement, we don’t do the witch thing.
Let me end by saying that if there are any witches out here on myspace/facebook/in life (which I doubt there are lol…hopefully :-/) please dont take this personal. Feel free to curse me out just dont curse me.
