It use to be oranges but now my fruit of choice are apples. Oranges make a more explosive and dramatic crash but you can palm an apple better. It’s got good aim, too good of an aim at times.
You see, there’s a park right beside my house and a river on the other side, both of which attract a lot of attention, both good and bad. Now I started throwing apples a little while back after I woke up one too many times to drunk university students in the park. Apples seemingly falling out of the sky spooked them and thus my apple-throwing to control the loud masses continued. I’ve never aimed an apple at someone. It was more or less me just tossing them out the window as a kind of scare tactic.
Tonight my so-called scare tactic scared nobody but me.
I had anticipated waking up at 4am on Monday for training so I had gone to bed around 11pm. My hopes of some much-needed sleep however were shattered by the over-the-top yelling in the park. Snickers was out with Mouse Doctor and Old Rock, so I was left home alone and desperately looking for some way to get the yelling park-goers to be quiet or to go home. It was one individual actually that was doing the yelling; his friends were just trying to reason with him.
After waiting not-so-patiently and after watching not one but three of my down-the-street neighbors come out to see what all the noise was about, I decided enough was enough. Another neighbor had called down to them from his window but nothing more than the screaming guy’s girlfriend apologizing became of it. That’s when I decided to take matters into my own hands and out the window went an apple.
Out went three apples actually.
I merely tossed the first two apples but I had chucked the third apple and I definitely had put some muscle in it. And just my luck the third apple hit the guy yelling!!! Talk about good aim for someone not even aiming. I couldn’t see because I was hiding at the side of the window when I threw it, plus the trees were blocking my sight, but I heard it hit him. And with that, the over-the-top yelling guy exploded with anger!!!
He yelled out in very “colorful” Korean, picked up the apple I had chucked, took a bite out of it and then, like a crazy man, yelled out “this is delicious, give me more!”
I hadn’t anticipated actually hitting him, that wasn’t what I was trying to do, so I was so unexpectedly caught off guard standing there beside the window in my sports bra and underwear. I didn’t dare move in fear of him seeing me, so I tried to stand as close to the wall as possible.
The over-the-top crazy yelling guy then made a bolt for the apartment stairs in the building next to me. Up the stairs he flew with six or seven of his buddies chasing behind him. Honestly, I didn’t know whether he was going up the stairs because he mistook someone else watching him as being the Midnight Apple-Thrower or because my apartment front door was locked and the stairwell in the building next to mine gave him clear access to my windows. Regardless, I regretted right there throwing those silly apples. Things were getting out of hand, way out of hand.
The over-the-top yelling guy never did make it to my floor in the next building but I did catch sight of him when his friends dragged him down and out of the building. He was no taller than me and probably no bigger either. He was this freakishly skinny Korean guy who had more bark than bite. Having said this, at no part did I find the situation funny. I hadn’t meant to actually nail the dude with an apple, but it happened and it had escalated so far to the point where some of his friends stuck around to try to search out the Midnight Apple-Thrower… me.
Snickers, on the other hand, upon arriving home a little later and finding apples outside the front door, knew something had happened.
He gave a good chuckle and, as he shook his head, "Only my wife" was all he could say.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
An apple a day can help keep more than the doctor away, right?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais
2 comments:
Hey Amy,
That was so funny about you throwing down those apples. I'm stll laughing. An apple a day........
Beth
Hey Becca,
Hahaha... thanks. It was funny at first yes but when the dude freaked out I thought I had just started a war. It wasn't until much later that it became funny again and I'll probably throw another apple soon cause it's coming up to the weekend and that's when drama usually makes its' way onto my street.
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