Day 10,098
12:04 p.m.

New posts every Monday.  I’ve decided to write new posts every Monday, because the quality of the posts will be lower if I write them everyday.  So I’ll post something new sometime during Sunday so that it will be up by Monday.

Gimme my keys!  Now, I will regale you with a tale that happened just last month.  I was walking home from the 7-11 by my house one hot June day.  I cut through the apartment complex on my way home.

          As I’m walking down the sidewalk, I hear some yelling up ahead.  A black woman in a car is yelling at a black man who’s sitting down on one of those metal boxes that says Las Vegas Valley Water District on it.  I keep listening and watching as I walk closer.  I can tell that they’re having a lovers’ quarrel.

          Next, the woman takes a water bottle and throws it at him, but it hits the metal box, misses him, and comes to a rest by his foot.  The man is not disturbed at all.  He doesn’t even look her way.  I think that is awesome, and I – being the silly person that I am – walk up to him for a high-five.  He gives me a low five and I’m chuckling.

          The woman looks at me and says “You think this is funny mother fucker!?”  I just put up my hands and back away, but I continue to watch from a hallway about 15 feet away.  The man had been living with the woman and her mom.  But I guess they broke up so now she wants him out.  However, I guess he’s still paying rent and her mom wants to keep him as a tenant.  The woman keeps demanding that he give her back the keys to the apartment, but he won’t.  Finally, after she keeps asking for her keys several times, he says “Take me to court.  If you want me out, take me to court.”

          Next the woman gets out of her car and opens the back door.  She pulls out a wooden board with a nail at the end of it!  She says “Mother fucker you better gimme my keys!”  She drags the board over to where he’s sitting.  But this guy doesn’t lose his cool!  He just sits there and ignores her!  I am so impressed!

          So she gets back in her car and drives away, so I think she’s gone.  But just a few moments later she comes back in her car.  She keeps saying “GIMME MY KEYS!”  But he doesn’t even look at her and just shakes his head no.  Then she gets in her car and drives around the corner of the building so we don’t see her anymore.  Then a few moments later, she’s standing at the corner of the building and she asks the man if he would come so she can talk to him.  He says “How do I know you don’t have a stick behind your back?”  Then she leaves for good.