Checking in..

[Dravyk]

Originally posted by Newton@Jul 4 2005, 11:06 AM
It certainly is an interesting place, especially when I was there .. walking down the street having your canadian g/f leading the way, being pushed and shoved, it was just so fucking rude. She had bruises from the excursion and not one apology. They seem to walk around with their elbows out to catch you on purpose. I adopted the same stance, and it was almost magical leading the way back like the parting of the red sea

This actually reminds me of my brief stint living in Union City, NJ, a small city a top the Pallisades, right above Hoboken and right across the Hudson River from Manhattan. The city is 98% Hispanic, and of that, 98% Cubano.

Very nice folks, overall. With one exception. The local laudramat, where very heavy middle aged women would knock your place out of line for the dryer. I mean literally. They would give hip-checks -- and lord did they have hips! -- that would make Bobby Clarke envious!! I swear these women turned doing laundry into a freaking sporting event of Olympic proportions!!

After the first two times -- at which I was just in mild shock, and also trying to figure out what I was going to do, afterall these were women -- I went back and from the third time on, I met them on their own turf. Nasty scowls, pretending I didn't know what they were saying and hip-checking them for the next drier just as good as they did. Kinda weird every time I went to the laundry to prepare myself "for battle", but with that mindset, I never had a problem again.