1. Hasids do in fact order movies from Netflix. I am not sure what movies they are watching , but this morning a little Hasidic girl walked right past me and dropped a Netflix envelope in the mailbox.
2. I found a perfectly good bit of brown rope in the bushes. A nice length, maybe 30 or 40 feet and coiled and strong stuff too. I don't know what someone was thinking.
3. Ray, the barber next to the Orthodox funeral home on the corner of Berry, died over the weekend of a massive heart attack. I figure he was only in his mid-sixties. He was a neighborhood fixture, cutting Jewish hair, Puerto Rican hair and all sorts of other hairs. The family has asked that donations in his name be given to the BARC animal shelter.
4. While I was stopped at Ray's shop looking at the wreath, a ginger haired Hasid man walked over:
"Did you know Ray?"
"Sure, everyone knew Ray."
"What do you do for a living?" (head nod toward newly acquired rope)
"I edit films and t.v."
"Does that benefit you economically?"
"Sometimes, sure."
"Rents are very expensive."
"They sure are, but my job doesn't need a lot of room."
"Are you selling the child?"
"What?"
"How much for the child?"
"What?"
"I have twenty five dollars."
"The boy is not for sale." (nervous laugh)
I've never known known Hasidic Jews to joke like that so probably he was mentally ill.
He knew Ray though.
2 comments:
Wow.
the jester is alive in all peoples. It is hard to suppress the jester, when he's calling.
what a set up. what a genius.
did you get her number or something?
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