today so far
Nov. 24th, 2006 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eliyesI've been awake for just a bit over 2 hours!
My day so far:
With a few errands to run, my roommate and I pop outside. The police have cordoned off the lane that runs through our (formerly a co-op) residential complex. Paddy wagons (and neighbours) everywhere.
First stop: Comic book and gaming supplies store! We kibitz with the boys (mostly about the cops) and make purchases of comic books, game books, a Vega (from Street Fighter) action figure (his face bears a shocking resemblance to Sebastian Bach o.O), and chocolate-covered almonds. The debit machine gives us guff, but after it's unplugged it sees who's boss and the transaction goes through.
Second stop: The pharmacy just down the street from the first stop. I need cough syrup. I need cough syrup a lot like I need air, because the former allows me to get at the latter more efficiently. The debit machine also gives us guff. In the end, they keep the receipt and let me go without paying for the cough syrup. Apparnetly their machine has been dying slowly for over a week. I can pay for the syrup another time. (Nice guys.)
Third stop: The convenience store in the huge circle of apartment buildings about two blocks from home. We need to pick up stuff to eat at work over the weekend, most especially pop and juice. When we walk in, they tell us there's no debit; their machine is down. Neither of us has cash.
Intermission: We dither out in the wind for a bit, trying to figure out what to do. Finally, we decide to go back up to the pharmacy and see if that ATM they have stuck in the corner works. However, the pharmacy is closed, so we go to...
Fourth stop: The comic book store again. We explain what's going on and ask if they could possibly do cash back. They check the till and yes, they can give us the amount we'd like. But I think you can see where this is going: the debit machine doesn't work. Lucky us, we got the comics and games etc. at the last minute or so of working debit in the area. Because the guys at the shop are total sweeties, the guy minding the store takes out his wallet and lends us the money himself. We'll pay him back next Friday (or possibly sooner if we run into him on campus).
Fifth stop: Back to the convenience store again. We let them know it's not just their machine and make our purchases.
Sixth stop: Home. Most of the paddy wagons and gawking neighbours seem to be gone, but the forensic unit and identification unit are parked at one end of the taped-off part of the street, and someone has set up a tripod and is slowly walking away from it in measured steps. Since nobody's around, we can't ask what happened -- but a car with the newpaper's banner on the side was pulling up when we got here, so I guess we'll read about it tomorrow. We're guessing murder, maybe double murder, just from some stuff my roommate heard as we walked past the neighbours...
My day so far:
With a few errands to run, my roommate and I pop outside. The police have cordoned off the lane that runs through our (formerly a co-op) residential complex. Paddy wagons (and neighbours) everywhere.
First stop: Comic book and gaming supplies store! We kibitz with the boys (mostly about the cops) and make purchases of comic books, game books, a Vega (from Street Fighter) action figure (his face bears a shocking resemblance to Sebastian Bach o.O), and chocolate-covered almonds. The debit machine gives us guff, but after it's unplugged it sees who's boss and the transaction goes through.
Second stop: The pharmacy just down the street from the first stop. I need cough syrup. I need cough syrup a lot like I need air, because the former allows me to get at the latter more efficiently. The debit machine also gives us guff. In the end, they keep the receipt and let me go without paying for the cough syrup. Apparnetly their machine has been dying slowly for over a week. I can pay for the syrup another time. (Nice guys.)
Third stop: The convenience store in the huge circle of apartment buildings about two blocks from home. We need to pick up stuff to eat at work over the weekend, most especially pop and juice. When we walk in, they tell us there's no debit; their machine is down. Neither of us has cash.
Intermission: We dither out in the wind for a bit, trying to figure out what to do. Finally, we decide to go back up to the pharmacy and see if that ATM they have stuck in the corner works. However, the pharmacy is closed, so we go to...
Fourth stop: The comic book store again. We explain what's going on and ask if they could possibly do cash back. They check the till and yes, they can give us the amount we'd like. But I think you can see where this is going: the debit machine doesn't work. Lucky us, we got the comics and games etc. at the last minute or so of working debit in the area. Because the guys at the shop are total sweeties, the guy minding the store takes out his wallet and lends us the money himself. We'll pay him back next Friday (or possibly sooner if we run into him on campus).
Fifth stop: Back to the convenience store again. We let them know it's not just their machine and make our purchases.
Sixth stop: Home. Most of the paddy wagons and gawking neighbours seem to be gone, but the forensic unit and identification unit are parked at one end of the taped-off part of the street, and someone has set up a tripod and is slowly walking away from it in measured steps. Since nobody's around, we can't ask what happened -- but a car with the newpaper's banner on the side was pulling up when we got here, so I guess we'll read about it tomorrow. We're guessing murder, maybe double murder, just from some stuff my roommate heard as we walked past the neighbours...
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Date: 2006-11-25 02:13 pm (UTC)Sounds like you live in a great neighbourhood with all of those people helping you out. (Duh- But I guess the neighbourhood can't be all sunshine and lollipops if there's a double murder happening... Errr... good balance!! ;) )
Hope the rest of your weekend is just as eventful! :)
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Date: 2006-11-25 03:05 pm (UTC)COMMENT THE SECOND
Date: 2006-11-25 03:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-25 10:37 pm (UTC)Anyway... hope you're feeling better about it, and I hope your signs come clean or are reparable.
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Date: 2006-11-25 11:27 pm (UTC)