Readers Write: Bob & Barbara’s — Kind To Trannies, Unkind To Old Black Cripples Who May Or May Not Be Crazy
So yesterday I was in GHo, walking down South Street in the stinkin heat, and a little ways in front of me is this old, skinny black guy, with one leg, hobbling on crutches. When he gets to Bob and Barbara’s, he lies aside one of his crutches, opens the door and sticks his head in. Apparently there is conversing. And then, just as I catch up to him, I hear a voice from inside scream at him to GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE and then the voice CHUCKS A FISTFUL OF ICE CUBES AT THE OLD, ONE-LEGGED GUY’S FACE, some of which hit me on the leg, but whatever. Now, I don’t know what the guy did. Maybe he’s homeless and annoying and crazy and has Tourettes. Maybe he like, removed his own leg and ate it in front of customers.But in any case, this did not seem to me to be a humane, 21st century response to whatever problem Bob and Barbara’s was having, and I feel like they should be called out on it.
Thanks, buddy. Now we’re gonna be thinking of an old dude eating his leg with a Happy Meal (PBR and Jim Beam, doncha know) for the rest of the day.
