Some days I would ride on the bus with my friend Cole if we didn't
have a vehicle and we would usually goof off a little and it was no
big deal until one day we enraged a little tough man. We were
inexplicably singing a Beastie Boy's deep track from the best hip hop
album of all time, “Paul's Boutique”. It was a section of a song
called B-Boy Bouillabaisse where the boys rap that each of the other
boys are in the house so what where they going to do? Go A.W.O.L..
Give her a listen her on the you tubes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uKuYFexR_pg#t=641s
We were singing this song but instead of the Beastie Boys names we
were singing the names of kids as they got on the bus. Once again let
me stress that I have absolutely no recollection of why in the sweet
blue hells we were doing this. It was all a pretty mindless and
harmless diversion until we accidentally sang the name of a little
tough man that was a year older than us. He had not been on the bus
to hear that we had sung the names of about a dozen other kids and he
was just the next person on the bus. He assumed that we had singled
him out for ridicule and while he took his seat calmly at first he
must have been festering up some rage. He was extra sensitive to
mockery because his family was one of those that gets fore-ordained
by most of the kids in the town to be the butt of jokes and the
victims of vandalism. It was not anything they had done or anything
about them personally it was just the way it was and everyone would
always take a poke at them because they were the designated
scapegoats. So he was extra sensitive and defensive. He had been
sitting for a bit and we had lost interest in our name singing game
and were just having a nice chat when like a short fluff mullet-ed
ball of hate grabbed us both by the hair and if I remember right
tried to slam our faces into the backs of the chairs or into each
other. We honestly had no idea what his problem was because we had
meant nothing by the song nad he was one of several people who we
indicated would cause us to go AWOL because they got on the bus. He
asked us what our problem was and threatened us and we told him to
clam down and leave us alone. He Left us with a warning and it was
not long before I crossed his path again.
