February 18, 2003
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Well…time to blog about my very eventful valentine’s day weekend. friday and saturday…went to mohegan sun. lost money. BAD. but my very good friend managed to win most of it back with the slot machines!!! GOOD!! Got lotsa free coupons for the buffets there (thanks to my very good friend’s aunt) GOOD!!! but the lines were SOOOO incredibly long. BAD!!! So instead, we ate fried chicken and subs…and spent the remaining coupons on Godivas, candy and Linus the Lion. GOOD, GOOD and GOOD!!! General outcome: GOOD!!!
On Sunday, I experienced my very first rumble…sorta. I was on the NJ Transit with my very good friend. then an old, fat, somewhat insane/drunk white man got on. starting hitting on a group of white HS girls sitting next to us (“hi there, you girls have nice hair…what are your names?”…the girls proceed to tell him their names and the neighborhood in which they live. stupid). anyhow, the white guy then starts harrassing this black kid, saying the black kid bumped into him. but crazy guy decided to back down.
Then he started backing his ass into my very good friend (he sat in the aisle). My very good friend had his elbow out to block the fat ass. and the guy felt the elbow and turned around. My very good friend told the white guy he bumped into him. The white guy glares at us, walks down a little and asks, “so? what are you gonna do about it?” my very good friend didn’t say anything. The white guy asks again and then goes, “yeah, then shut the F*** up”
My very good friend tells the man that he will not shut up since the man bumped into him, and then calls him a mofo. Then the man got REALLY mad and started asking what his mother ever did to us. (at this time, my very good friend and I were sitting, and the man was standing over us). The man then leans his arm on the chair in front of us and balls his hands into a fist. At this time i’m afraid that the crazy man will punch my very good friend in the face. My very good friend realizes the same thing and stands up.
They stare at each other for a little bit, then the crazy guy wraps his arms around my very good friend’s neck and starts pulling him out into the aisle. My very good friend manages to throw the guy down (GOOOO yellow belt!). but on his way down, the crazy guy grabbed my very good friend’s hood and rips his fingernails into the skin by his ears. and they both go down. my very good friend gets up and the crazy guy is still on his back, kicking upwards with his feet like a baby. Somehow in all of this, the crazy guy manages to kick ME in the shin.
Meanwhile, a black guy had stepped in front of my very good friend and was holding him back. he told my very good friend, “go get your girl and leave”. But i was too busy trying kicking the crazy guy back and telling him to get off my very good friend. i was mad. he KICKED me. HARD. i had a nasty BRUISE. Anyhow, this other white man managed to hold the crazy white guy back and get him off the train. meanwhile, the crazy guy was telling us he’d kill us…and was calling us korean assholes. The crazy guy had pulled on my very good friend so hard that his hood part had ripped completely off his hoodie. and he had footprint marks allover. and fingernail cuts by his ear. oh and he got a bruise on his shin too.
but most of the people were cool. A lot of them came by and asked if my very good friend was okay. And this black couple was cheering me on. BUT, there was this one annoying father, who had a young daughter. he stood there, holding his daughter, watching the whole thing. Then, AFTER he was done watching, he decided it was time to book to another car. As he walked by, he turned to us and said sarcastically, “good work. great going, guys, now my daugher’s scared”. As if it was OUR fault that we were being assaulted. He could’ve left as soon as he heard the man yelling at us. But no, he stayed to watch the WHOLE thing…and letting his daughter watch the whole thing.
but I’m proud of my very good friend. He said that after they both went down, (my very good friend had him pinned down) he soooo wanted to punch the guy..and he could’ve easily messed up the crazy guy…but something held him back. and he just got up and didn’t hurt the guy. And he’s the better man for it. We think the crazy guy decided to pick a fight with my very good friend because he was Asian. and the stereotypically easier target (compared to the black kid). The crazy guy definitely did not think too highly of asian since he was hurling racial slurs at us. But it was some sort of craziness that night.
Comments (8)
Am I the only person who wonders why Jenn refers to him as “her very good friend”? Bizarre.
i can explain the “very good friend” thing to you, keezy.
jen, please tell lenny i give him insane props for standing up to that dude. i guess it also helped that lenny is diesel.
omg…after all this time…u still dunno wut a rumble is… craziness.. but 1/2 a prop to lenny fer standing up to the crazy bok gwai… woulda been a full props if he woulda knocked him into next week or at the very least chipped a tooth off the guy for a souvenier or sumthing… beaten him senseless and taken his shoes… which must really suck if u homeless… broke all his fingers so he couldnt hold/open another bottle of wine fer a few months… i dunno…the possibilities are endless.. i say wut y’all should do is just go back on NJ Transit and start beating up random drunk bok gwais. FUN FUN! =]
and andy.. im sure u coulda stood up to the insane/drunk bok gwai too… jes aim fer the nads first =] im sure das wut u was kicking for too right jen?
Thank God you guys are safe……props for lenny for defending and protecting you…I hope he’s all right…
Sounds like somebody’s grown a lot. I’m glad.
yay for you and the “very good friend”!
go china!
Andy, it also didn’t hurt that the white dude was drunk. Fighting drunk people is considerably easier because they’ll always fall down.