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Tales from the Ick!: Morning Routine |
Posted by
ickgirl on Friday, July 27, 2001 - 03:05 PM PST
I leave my apartment at roughly 8:15am every morning. I wait at a bus stop 4 blocks away where a strange young man who just might be a genius sits and discusses the state of the world with himself. If I'm lucky I catch an express bus which zooms me the 25 or so blocks to work. If I'm not so lucky I hop on a local bus which stops at every block. It's never as simple as "step on the bus, pay, sit down." All sorts of mini-dramas unfold at each stop. I finally step off my bus between the needle exchange and the McDonalds where all the crack dealers hang out. My mornings have become so routine that I stopped noticing the city around me. So this morning, I took a look around...
The alleys smell worse each year. Why can't we designate just ONE alley for bodily waste? I never noticed how the tourists avoid the block on 2nd avenue between Pike and Pine as if their flight attendant announced it as they descended "Welcome to Seattle everyone, watch out for the junkies on 2nd avenue, enjoy your trip." How else could they know? It's really not so bad. Today someone offered a shoeshine for 3 bucks.
As I wade through the strung-out, dull-eyed bodies-sipping my water in the land of coffee trying to get the shoeshine guy off my back-I realized how exhausting the city can be. I stub my toe on the uneven pavement and half-trip my way up Pike street, past the rows of tourist shops and porn emporiums. Hot dog stands!! Why do we suddenly have hot dog stands on every third corner in the middle of downtown? It really isn't helping the stench. Polish sausage and urine. An outstretched arm with a baseball hat finds its way in front of my face. Jingle. Waiting for the walk signal, the sounds of someone repeating "Real change newspaper. Real change newspaper. Real change newspaper."
I can't decide if I love this city, or if it's warping my mind. Is fear and loneliness mistaken for complacent apathy? Someone recently wrote an "I, Anonymous" piece in the Stranger calling the people of Seattle jellyfish. The American Dream…grow up, get a job, get married, have a kid or 5, withdraw from the social structure, hide inside yourself and make the journey to work everyday.
No American Dream for me, thanks. I had cereal for breakfast.
Because 8:15 stretches into 8:20 on most days, I find myself already motion sick as I ready myself for the 37-floor elevator ride to my office.
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Morning Routine | Login/Create an account | 17 Comments |
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Ewwww! by Comedian (comedian@callatg.com) on Jul 27, 2001 - 09:55 PM (User info | Send a Message) | Awwww! That sucks!
What a way to end a smelly day when your own house starts smelling! |
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Re: Morning Routine
by VampCourt (Morbidchic@hotmail.com)
on Jul 27, 2001 - 06:28 PM
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Arent Humans GREAT! My gods Im happy to be one!!! Now.. Im gonna gonna go run out and piss in the street!
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Re: Morning Routine by ickgirl on Jul 27, 2001 - 08:03 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.envy.nu/ickgirl | I must make a note...See, Seattle has basically NO public bathrooms in the city, unless you go somewhere and buy something. Literally. The ONE AND ONLY free bathroom for anyone to use is at the pike place market, and its not somewhere anyone wants to go relieve themselves--its more of a place to cook your junk and shoot it.
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Re: Morning Routine by callei (plyn@plynlymon.com) on Jul 27, 2001 - 09:53 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.plynlymon.com | and that bathroom at pike place may be the grossest bathroom in America. I remember that place and refusing to go into it.
's a shame that they dont keep it up for the tourists at least. |
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Re: Morning Routine by ickgirl on Jul 27, 2001 - 09:59 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.envy.nu/ickgirl | Yep. But you see, as long as you look NOT homeless you can manage to find a place to pee, just wander into a highrise and take an elevator to some floor and use the bathroom, no one's going to question you. I know all the super nice bathrooms downtown, learned the hard way.
I've been desperate enough to go in the Westlake Mall bathroom (not much better than pike place on some days), there I'm standing (yes standing) and a spoon drops to the floor in the stall next to me as the woman hacks up a lung or two.
Lovely.
I'd rather pee in an alley too, no wonder it smells so bad downtown! |
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Re: Morning Routine by callei (plyn@plynlymon.com) on Jul 28, 2001 - 09:48 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.plynlymon.com | I'd pretend to apartment shop..... gets you out of the cold and nice fresh scrubed bathrooms! Oh and many places had coffee, tea and cookies as well. hehehehehe |
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Update
by ickgirl on Jul 28, 2001 - 09:56 AM
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Let's update on my day yesterday. My day ended with the news that my neice has been hit by a car. FUCK. She's just a kid, she's hurt bad, and my family is so fucked I can't seem to get the right kind of information from anyone. Her and I have always been very close. A few times she came very close to moving in with me, but I guess her mother said that she couldn't bear to see someone doing a better job caring for her. Can someone explain to my why people have kids? Wait. I know - I know all the reasons, and it makes me so angry.
Anyway, she's at the major trauma hospital, with all sorts of stuff wrong. As soon as I know she's coherant enough to see me, I'm going to go. I'm not going down there for ANYTHING except to see her, and have her see me. So I'm waiting it out. Quite frankly, I'm in no mood to support her family, they piss me off way too much.
fuck. :(
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Re: Update by callei (plyn@plynlymon.com) on Jul 28, 2001 - 11:09 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.plynlymon.com | What can i say? get there and be there when she wakes! Im so sorry. I hope she comes through this well and the scars arent too bad, for you or her.
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Nice plan. by Comedian (comedian@callatg.com) on Jul 28, 2001 - 05:08 PM (User info | Send a Message) | Tell her everyone on the website hopes she gets better soon. And the jerk in the car has a darwin-awards style castration/chastity stapling happening to them soon. |
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Another Update by ickgirl on Jul 30, 2001 - 08:00 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.envy.nu/ickgirl | When I got to the hospital she was asleep. And she looked AWFUL. Her mom told me she was about 50 times better looking than the day before (which makes me glad I didn't see her yesterday). I was holding my 2 year old neice who hadn't seen her cousin yet. She got scared and kept asking "what's wong wif sawah?" We all just sat around and quietly talked about her condition while she lightly snored.
She flickered her eyes, opened one, then the other. The other was blood red. She glanced around slowly and when she caught my eyes I had to hold my breath to hold in the water that was welling up in my eyes.
I'm glad she woke up so I wouldn't be sitting here right now picturing her sleeping, bruised face, black eyes, puffy lip, puss everywhere. But instead I'm picturing her saying "mom. i gotta poop.......*pause* nevermind, just had to fart"
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Re: Morning Routine
by firefly7 (-)
on Mar 11, 2002 - 06:08 PM
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Marvy... I understand that life is routine alot of the time. I live on a dead end road and every moring it's wake up at five some... leave at 6 some following the little white car from the end of the road, go home 2 some, get home 3 some... And the A.D. where I live is "Be a prep- play a sport or 12, and don't do drugs (I think I live right near the center of my state's drug mini capital)" So any one who isn't this, hasn't suceeded... If that's sucess me and my friends would rather, um well, fail.
Ps. I had ceral too! Lucky Charms are magically delicous
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