Hi Family!! I know I haven’t posted in a minute but to tell the truth I have been too disgusted to say a
MFR THING to ANYONE!!! The past few weeks have been hell on heely shoes or whatever those damn things these kids are zooming around stores on. One kid liked to got
DEALT with cause he scared the shit out of me zooming past while I’m tryna enjoy shopping at Target.
Hemingway. It all started on a Monday morning when my black ass was later than normal. Yall know I ‘sposed to be at work by 7am but I try & usually make it by 9. Nigras don’t act surprised YALL know how WE do. Anyway I was on Minnesota Ave heading towards Pennsylvania and it was backed up. So I turned down Nash so I could hit Fairlawn that runs along side the railroad tracks parallel to 295. Ain’t no cars back there just crack heads and ne’er-do-wells. My plan was to cut cross, creep through the alley & hit Penn Ave. Easy?
WRONG!!! Ain’t a damn thing easy in D.C.
First all those damn bumps & pot holes & shit. Then soon as I pass the
DO NOT ENTER 7a m- 9am sign (Yeah I know I was wrong but hell its D.C.), bout to left turn down the alley a damn PoPo siren twirls in my face. He was hiding up in the cut behind the bushes. Now yall know damn well!!! A YT too – thought they was all patrolling Capitol Hill waiting on Marion Barry (MarrryBarrrry –my peoples know how to say it) to drive by. Anyway this Beckham styling gel gump gives me a
$50 TICKET!!! I was heated but I wisely drove on. They can’t solve no damn homicides in the district but they will beat your ass & leave you on the streets saying you was drunk.
I finally make it to work, park & run upstairs ( yes biaches I said RUN), almost passed out by the time I got to the second floor & ran smack into my boss – whom I thought WAS sposed to be HOME that day. I swear YT will do a pop up on your ass in a minute. I was so out of breath though I couldn’t even answer her ass when she asked my why I was late. I just waved my hands at her like I picture Miss Brenda, the candy lady would do on a heavy cigarette smoke day. I fell in the chair at my desk & damn near put my eye out when my button popped off my pants with such force it ricocheted. I have got to call Star Jones.
Then before I can get comfortable & catch my breath that cuzin of mine called. Don’t get me wrong I love Carabana like a recently paroled Uncle Pookie but
GOOD LORD that girl can talk. I had to hear all bout cousin Bey Bey & Poot Nanny, her trip to New York & who shot John down to what kind of blinds Loews sells. I kept telling her ass I had to hang up but she just kept saying “
Ok….Did you …. “ Going off on a whole new tangent. Obviously her ass doesn’t have enough work to do. I might have to drop an anonymous customer complaint letter.
Thirty minutes later I was headed to lunch & decided to treat myself to something nice. Hell I deserved it. Especially after my morning & dealing with those customers on my night job. Which I can’t even get into right now cause that’s a whole book. MFR chilren running round the store, jumping on display beds & simple managers- umm I’ma need a Xanax. So I had down to King Street looking for something good & fancy. I wanted to splurge.
Le Gaulois was calling my name. It’s a quaint little restaurant on King Street in Alexandria – I think it’s French – with nice décor, outside patio area, flowers, ambience you name it. I said “
THIS is the place for you Ms. G.” I go in & stand at the door for bout 2 minutes. Finally Henrico Menendez Brothers comes over & says in a snotty tone:
“
May I help you Miss?”
That should have been my first clue right there that shit wasn’t gone be right. Normally people ask you “
Table for one”, “Welcome, How many?” or some other such warm friendly hostess stuff. Not Henrico. So I looked down my nose & did my best Bigmama impression & replied:
“
I’d LIKE to sit & have lunch.” I haughtily stated. He gave me a weird look & then led me to a table in the courtyard next to a brick wall – but thankfully under an umbrella – where all the bees & shit was congregated. Ok. Strike two. The waiter came brought me some water & bread & took my order. I decided to get a grilled seafood salad cause it SAID it had salmon, shrimp, scallops, swordfish & avocados. Umm it sounded scrumptious so I got it. I also ordered a glass of wine.
WELL when my food arrived I was speechless. Now I know how a certain someone felt when the King of Zamunda took her to a fancy D.C. spot that’s FAMOUS for it’s cuisine. I had
ONE shrimp,
ONE scallop,
ONE piece of salmon bout the size of my thumbs together – I have
SMALL thumbs.
ONE piece of swordfish even smaller than the salmon on some wilted ass lettuce. A quarter piece of avocado sliced in fours & two mini cherry tomatoes cut in half. It was on the plate so pretty but at $14 damn dollars I had to call Ernesto Javier Armando Raheim Jabob Leroy Lopez ass back to the table.
He was reluctant to come cause his
ASS KNEW what was bout to go down. It’s bad enough they stuck me by the wall with bees & flies & shit with everybody looking at me like I was gone jump up at any minute & run off with their plate & purses. I was still
HONGRY!!! I asked him very nicely & discreetly where the rest of my food was was while he smiled & tried to pretend like his ass didn’t understand English.
“
Usted sabe terriblemente el pozo qué estoy diciendo, así que no me hace acto para arriba hacia fuera aquí!” I politely told his ass in a heated whisper – smiling the whole time. For yall that don’t know let me translate:
“YOU KNOW DAMN WELL WHAT I’M SAYING SO DON’T MAKE ME ACT UP OUT HERE!!!”
He got the message along with the manager. Who then brought out some sponge like, no flavor having tri-color cake to try & appease me. It was so nasty I simply asked for my bill, paid the $48 (I got a shrimp cocktail for an appetizer with 4 semi-jumbo shrimp) and rolled the hell out. It wasn’t till I got back to work I realized them MFR’s had charged me for the cake too!!!
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