Hip hop night. Closing time. Knuckleheads who couldn’t get into the club loitered across the street. Punks without a post-club coital date turned into parking lot pimps. Idiots drunk, high or a combination of both. Dumbfucks with guns.
I stood my post at the front door. Tense. Anticipating.
Yelling and cursing in the parking lot across the street. Posturing. Two idiots “motherfucking” each other. Three gunshots silenced one motherfucker. The crowd scattered like cockroaches. Cars spilled out of the parking lot, sped towards the freeway.
One Jeep Cherokee remained in the lot, passenger door wide open, crimson puddle underneath. Groaning from inside the car.
I approached the car. A fat black man in the passenger seat bled, arm hanging limp by his side. Blood trickled from his seat, slowly made its way to the growing blood pool on the ground. I asked: “Where’d you get hit?”
“Yo man, nigga shot me in the motherfucking ass!”
I bit my tongue, tried not to laugh.
Sarj
02/12/2008
I’m not laughing.
Hahahaha!
Okay, you got me. lol!
Mr. Grudge
02/12/2008
Hi Kimchihead,
I probably wouldn’t have been as polite as you. He was shot in the ass, and I might have laughed my ass off. Good to see you back. Gritty, story. -Mike.
alice
02/13/2008
*grin* still, that’s fuckin awful. the last time i saw a scene like that was not funny at all. i’m glad this ended the way it did. (as opposed to worse.)
Iron Pugilist
02/13/2008
Damn, his attacker missed. But I wouldn’t blame him for mistaking his ass for his head.
Cowgirl Betty
02/13/2008
Glad to see you’re back with your dark humor. I wonder how the guy explained his injury at the ER?
“Well, you see, it went like this . . . I was just standing on the corner, reading my Bible when . . .”
Monica
02/13/2008
I’m with Betty on this, how WOULD you explain? Sometimes I think working in ERs might be interesting… stories wise.
Glad to see you writing!
Monica
70steen
02/13/2008
great to see you back…. the the scenario you depicted is not far from some areas in inner city UK… but with only the occasional gun that makes the papers still…….. being shot in the ass would certainly be front line news lol
saboonjin
02/14/2008
Haha! Who would have chosen to aim at the ass?!
Good to be back here and read your blog again! Nice one with a tinge of humor!
Batbitch
02/14/2008
Dropped in for a Valentine’s kiss.
Or a shot and a beer.
lordmanilastone
02/28/2008
this is another classic, my god of all things, the ass surely is a punchline…^^
Michello
03/05/2008
Ass out of luck!