So I wake up super early this morning. Last day I have to take the bus due to car repairs, hopefully, and I'm looking forward to relaxing at Starbucks about midway to work just to get in my reading. Once out of the apartment complex, still dark out, and I hear two loud noises. Could be a car backfiring, could be gunshots, could be anything. No screaming, no commotion, nothing else to really tip me off. I keep walking undisturbed by the big city noises, nevermind the 5am hour.
Few more steps, and two more of the same noises ... this time noticably closer. This time ... noticably gunfire.
Suffice it to say, I made it out of the neighborhood alive*, but sheesh ... I did not need that much excitement in my day.
(*) Fortunately, truckers park alongside the road of my neighborhood and that sheilded me just enough to take another route to another bus stop.
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That area is getting worse and worse....you shold move.
Aw, heck, come to Dallas.....at least the crime is pretty concentrated in the West End now ;-)
Dallas? You'll take my voter registration identifying me as a Houstonian from my cold dead hands before I ever reside in Dallas.
As for an inter-city move, that's already being planned, though.
Heh-heh-heh!
Greg, I think we just bonded. We share a similar experience as you already know. My theory: they will work it out on their own. The ghetto is its own ecosystem. My other theory: should I enroll in a concealed weapons course? If so, will I be more temped to use it on myself in hard times!?!? lol
I'm predisposed towards being anti-attractive-women-with-guns. Seems the odds of them using it on ME is more likely than either scenario you put forth, Lin.