09:18 - Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008
life at the mission
5:35 AM - standing in line, waiting for coffee and doughnuts, man 1 was standing by a bench, and decided to sit down; as he was sitting down, man 2 ran up to him, and yelled that he was sitting on his jacket- WTF are you doing sitting on my jacket?? and proceeded to kick man 1 and started punching him; the fight was on! man 1 roared up and whomped on man 2 and the rolled around on the ground; man 1 ended up on his back, and man 2 started to jump on him, and as he did, man 1 shoved his fingers in man 2's eye, gouging his eye! but then, man 2 somehow was able to get man 1's finger in his mouth, and he chomped down, hard! screaming and bloodletting ensued; man 3, a third party, tryed to break it up and he jumped into the melee, getting blood all over his clothes, but managed to grab man 2's jaw and pry it open, thereby releasing the now in badly need of severe stitches finger of man 1. now separated, the police come, and man 1 is yelling how he wants man 2 "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!!" the cops, accessing the situation, looked at both tramps, and declared it a fair fight, and a draw, and decided not to put anyone in jail!
"you mean yer aint gonna put him in jail? lookit what he did to my finger!!" yea, the cop said, but look at what you did to his eye!. it was a fair fight, no one is going to jail, however, i will take you two to the hospital to get stitched up! and away they went, in separate ambulances, of course, to get their wounds treated.
meanwhile, down in the bathroom, as man 3 took off his bloody pants, and took out his wallet and all his junk outta his pockets to change his pants, crazy man 4 came by, seeing the wallet on the counter, proceeded to pony up to man 3 take his wallet, and start to rifle thru it, and man 3 yelled, WTF are you doing?? thats MY SHIT!! and crazy man 4 sez, "look! someone left a wallet here!" and man 3 yelled THATS MY SHIT!!! whereby crazy man 4 took out 2 dollars and his library card, and bloody pants and ran out the door with lightening speed, gone in 60 seconds!
all of the above entitled story happened before 6 am on a misty dreary friday morning at the mission! this is a common occurrence, similar events happen daily, as the cold weather starts to set in, and tension mounts, as it is the last of the month, and all the nutbags are broke, food stamps are sold/spent, and EVERYONE is broke!
at 6 am the mission opens back up and you sit in the chapel, "christian music" is piped into the "chapel" thru $1000 dollar speakers, sometimes softly, sometimes blaring, depends upon the program man who is operating the system. then, at 7 am, the ear banging begins, "YOU MUST BE SAVED TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN" yadda yadda, on occasion, the "preacher" laments upon how "the muslims" and "the buddists" wont be going to heaven, because JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD, AND ALLAH DID NOT, AND NEITHER DID BUDDAH!!! and that pisses off most of the blacks in the seats, and they start grumbling about that; then, mercifully, the earbanging is over at 7:25 and breakfast begins, on the way to the "chow hall" you stop at the front desk to sign up for another night on the mat, then you go eat. this morning was a "good breakfast" consisting of oatmeal, scrambled eggs, bacon, tater tots, and bagels and coffee. if ya want seconds, what you can do, if yer slick enough, is sneak back in line to get another tray, or, what ya have to do is go back into the chapel, for another 25 minutes of earbanging, then you can go eat some more, up until 9 am. be back at 5:30 for supper! then, in the chapel by 6:30 to get your mat ticket, and 7pm for the "evening service" where upon the preacher will ultimately try to impose his beliefs upon you, most times by jumping up and down and screaming to get his point across. then, thankfully at 8 pm, the crap is over and into the chow hall to grab a mat and a blanket, and lights out at 8:30 pm and sleep, to be awoke at 5 am to start the menagerie all over again!!
and thats the way it is here at the mission!!
its saturday, and time to see what i can see for the day!!! hay hay!! what say ye? comment freely at the bottom of the page!!! hava happy happy!!
