NYC Stories 2

[CQ Beans]

(1) Last summer I found myself stranded in a strange part of NY. I met this old bag lady I knew from the neighborhood and we tried to find transportation. I ended up chasing down random cars before finding a proper bus junction.

While walking to the block stop I had to practically commandeer a bus route. Driver thought I was nuts on account of all the construction confusion but he managed to get us over the bridge.

(2) I ran out of liquor one night and all the stores were closed by then so I settled on beer. I walked to the corner grocery shop and some drunk guy started rambling that he needed help getting home. I asked where he lived and he started babbling about being part of MS-13 (unlikely) so I said look relax but then he starts flinging garbage around while trying to hit me with some kinda rope.

I tell him to fuck off while trying to redirect him away from my building. He’s still going about getting other bangers to fuck me up while walking down the street. Never saw him again.

 

[aRTie02150]

I was at this place called A1 pizza on Grand Street in the late 90s and remember some guy tried to lure my cousin and I to play PlayStation over his apartment and the Arab guy who owned the place got involved and physically removed him from the shop. He came from behind the counter with the giant pizza scoop thing and was about to bash him with it. The guy ran off and the shop owner let us stay there and have a couple slices for free. It was pretty cool. We weren't even interested in playing PlayStation because my cousin had one, so we wouldn't have gone with him anyway.

 

[BUBBLER]

I was at this place called A1 pizza on Grand Street in the late 90s and remember some guy tried to lure my cousin and I to play PlayStation over his apartment and the Arab guy who owned the place got involved and physically removed him from the shop. He came from behind the counter with the giant pizza scoop thing and was about to bash him with it. The guy ran off and the shop owner let us stay there and have a couple slices for free. It was pretty cool. We weren't even interested in playing PlayStation because my cousin had one, so we wouldn't have gone with him anyway.

Did the Arab use the free Pizzas to molest you afterwards

 

[Africa.com]

I helped a buddy of mine rob Lufthansa at the airport then he murdered a bunch of guys to tie up loose ends. When I got caught selling cocaine it was an obvious move for me to rat him out before he could do me. Crazy times

 

[aRTie02150]

Did the Arab use the free Pizzas to molest you afterwards

Nope. I remember him being a very rough around the edges kinda guy and likely wasn't a child toucher.

Pre 9-11 NY Arab types were different. This guy would have passed off as a 3rd generation NY Italian with his accent. We used to go there a lot. I think it's still there.

 

[ChimpanZ]

One time two niggers stole my truck. Can you believe that shit?

 

[CQ Beans]

I was at this place called A1 pizza on Grand Street in the late 90s and remember some guy tried to lure my cousin and I to play PlayStation over his apartment and the Arab guy who owned the place got involved and physically removed him from the shop. He came from behind the counter with the giant pizza scoop thing and was about to bash him with it. The guy ran off and the shop owner let us stay there and have a couple slices for free. It was pretty cool. We weren't even interested in playing PlayStation because my cousin had one, so we wouldn't have gone with him anyway.

You really need to write a book about your life, Artie. I mean, that’s fucked up what happened I’m just saying.

 

[CQ Beans]

Pre 9-11 NY Arab types were different. This guy would have passed off as a 3rd generation NY Italian with his accent.

That’s so bizarrely accurate.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

One time two niggers stole my truck. Can you believe that shit?

 

[aRTie02150]

You really need to write a book about your life, Artie. I mean, that’s fucked up what happened I’m just saying.

I'm in a sense thankful for my parents being negligent when I was young. I was very free range. I had a beeper and a key to the house before my OLDER brother got one because I never came home immediately from school and my parents got sick of it and made me a latchkey kid very early.

Going between Boston and New York regularly as a youngster and having that independence made me pretty wise at a young age. I found myself in so many hilarious, creepy, dangerous, and interesting events over the years because of it. Plus it was the 90s into the 2000s. A magical time before everyone became so shitty.

 

[guest]

We all heard of Kafkaesque...

This is "Fetterstertarian".

 

[guest]

Nope. I remember him being a very rough around the edges kinda guy and likely wasn't a child toucher.

Pre 9-11 NY Arab types were different. This guy would have passed off as a 3rd generation NY Italian with his accent. We used to go there a lot. I think it's still there.

Yeah, the George Noori/Kasey Kassem types...lol

 

[aRTie02150]

I had no idea that Casey Kassem was Arab lol.

I didn't even know that's how his last name was spelled until just now. I actually read that name as Kah-See Kah Seem before I googled them haha.

 

[guest]

I had no idea that Casey Kassem was Arab lol.

I didn't even know that's how his last name was spelled until just now. I actually read that name as Kah-See Kah Seem before I googled them haha.

It's "Qassim" (Oath keeper) but he ashamed and tried to latinize it. Probably told people he's "Lebanese" when asked.

Same name as Qasem Solimani (who isn't Arab, but had an Arabic type name).

 

[aRTie02150]

That’s so bizarrely accurate.

I felt bad for regular NY Arabs who took harassment after 9-11 because I knew the vast majority of them were very Pro America and had more pride for the city that most of the other residents.

Anyone old enough to remember life before 9-11 and spent any time in NY probably has no idea they were Arabs because they all assimilated.

No idea what happened.

 

[CQ Beans]

I felt bad for regular NY Arabs who took harassment after 9-11 because I knew the vast majority of them were very Pro America and had more pride for the city that most of the other residents.

Anyone old enough to remember life before 9-11 and spent any time in NY probably has no idea they were Arabs because they all assimilated.

No idea what happened.

I totally know what you mean. All the Arab/Turk/Muslims I’ve known have been very salt of the earth humble hard workers.

 

[guest]

I felt bad for regular NY Arabs who took harassment after 9-11 because I knew the vast majority of them were very Pro America and had more pride for the city that most of the other residents.

Anyone old enough to remember life before 9-11 and spent any time in NY probably has no idea they were Arabs because they all assimilated.

No idea what happened.

Those were mostly Maronites, Greek Orthodox Lebanese...Assyrian Iraqis, etc. Tony Shalhoub types.

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Now you have Yemenis (who gave you chopchee) and Palestinian Muslims and since 2015, Syrian Muslims. Tbh, since the 90s most middle eastern migration to North America is Muslim (all the Christians who could already left by the 1960s)...and of course Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Somalis, West African Muslims (Amadou Diallo = Ahmed Diallo) and so on.

 

[CQ Beans]

I'm in a sense thankful for my parents being negligent when I was young. I was very free range. I had a beeper and a key to the house before my OLDER brother got one because I never came home immediately from school and my parents got sick of it and made me a latchkey kid very early.

Going between Boston and New York regularly as a youngster and having that independence made me pretty wise at a young age. I found myself in so many hilarious, creepy, dangerous, and interesting events over the years because of it. Plus it was the 90s into the 2000s. A magical time before everyone became so shitty.

Man, the 90’s were bizarre but in a good way.

 

[CQ Beans]

We all heard of Kafkaesque...

This is "Fetterstertarian".

Yeah, your English doesn’t make sense. Neither does your attempt to do so.

 

[Hudson Margera-Hughes]

I helped a buddy of mine rob Lufthansa at the airport then he murdered a bunch of guys to tie up loose ends. When I got caught selling cocaine it was an obvious move for me to rat him out before he could do me. Crazy times