1) A
(lower class) (late 20s) (fat) (white) woman in a sportsteam-logoed jacket and
pajama bottoms is walking her fat mean-looking dog, and as it stoops to poop on
the middle of the sidewalk, she gives a small but not severe kick to its side
and starts calling it stupid...
Some older
people who happen to be walking up the street towards her but are still a bit away yell to her that she shouldn’t do that, and she yells back that she doesn’t care.
(Oddly,
I felt viscerally more appalled by this than how the yuppies treated some of
their dogs at the bakery outside my window at my last apartment, but I think much of that being more appalled was a
reaction to her class and not the substance of her actions... It’s just as bad to leave a small dog chained
up in subzero weather whining piteously, and shifting from paw to paw because
the metal grate it’s standing on is too cold.)
2) Three
young middle school-aged girls (2 white, 1 Mexican) who are a bit dirty looking
are always skulking around together in a pack up and down my street.
One time
one sped by on a bike as I was unlocking mine from a signpost, and she cried
out, “Nice bike!”.
Another
time they were huddled together walking down the street shiftily, and I could
tell a few of them were smoking cigarettes.
3) On
the main strip of businesses across from the Citibank branch, someone slapped a sticker on the door of the free
hispanic newspaper box, and on it in pen were written
irregular letters:
[FEMALE
HISPANIC NAME] WHO LIVES ON [ADDRESS A FEW BLOCKS AWAY] HAS STDS WATCH OUT
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