Real Life Stories

2. This all happened on March 27th, 1999:

First it's 7:50 a.m and I'm waiting for my friends at the waiting area of the train station (whatever you call that) so then I wait for like 20 minutes..And only one person gets there--Anyways..we take the train and we get of at 42nd so then I get a quarter and call my mom--then there's this bum undressing himself..so I'm like, "Ok, what the hell is he doing?"--The guy at the booth, the one that works there says, "Hey, you got clothes underneath that?"
Bum said, "Yeah"
My mom picks up the phone and she's like "Ok, your friends hasn't called"(Since she was supposed to call to meet us at the train station)
Then I say "Ok, I'm leaving, there's a crazy man undressing himself"
She said "Ok, so leave already" (the conversation was in Spanish)
We were hungry so we were looking for Dunkin Donuts, we found it, and on our trip there, my friend and I saw my other friend, so I start yelling her name..So then we go to Dunkin Donuts, and we all buy bagels and juice, (one of them bought hot chocolate)--Anyways..That bagel was mad hard, it wasn't cut at all, so we finish eating.
We're at the Bank so then time passes. One of my other friends is saying that at her interview they didn't tell her to sit down, so I start to crack up..Then I was leaning back and I'm moving myself in the chair and I suddenly fall..I was flapping my arms and my legs were in the air..All of the sudden everyone in the room starts laughing, since I don't get embarrased I start laughing too, I'm still laying on top of the chair..I keep laughing..The teacher (the one teaching us about interviews and stuff) gets me up and asks if I'm alright..I said "Yeah, I'm ok, that was fun"--The people keep laughing and saying that they only saw my feet moving...So I was like "Let me do it again"--Then two minutes pass and the teacher goes on her knees and keeps laughing, I keep laughing too--Anyways..I found that pretty funny..I kept laughing for the rest of the day--Some people were like "Did you hit your head?"
I say, "No"
They say, "Yes you did"
"I hit my arm, not my head, maybe my hair covered the fall," I said.(Maybe I did hit my head...Well..who knows?)
Then we are having the mock interview..and the interviewer (in this case the teacher) talked that some interviewers are germ-o-phobic and that they won't shake your hand, so I figured that she wouldn't have done that to anyone..so then it was my turn to get interviewed..then she didn't shake my hand and I say "Ok, then"--You know that for an interview you have to wait 'til they tell you to sit..since she didn't shake my hand..I forgot that I had to wait 'til she tells me to sit down, so as I'm sitting..I realized that I wasn't supposed to do that and I say "Oh sh*t!"--The teacher started laughing..and the class too..I was like "Oooops!!"

3. This one happened to me when I was in 8th grade:

I was given to do a report on George Washington, so I go to the library and ask a girl, that works there and was fixing books, I asked her, "Excuse me, do you know where I can find a book about George Washington?"
She tells me, "Who?"
I thought she didn't hear me...So I say "George Washington."
She says "Who's that?"
I say, "The first president of the United States!"
She responds, "I don't know, go ask them over there."

4. I love acting, as an extracurricular activity, I joined the drama club...I've been in it for a year and like two months. I'm supposed to have a monologue (it's like a big paragraph that I have to perform by myself in front of people) that it's about an invisible friend that I have...My friend gave me the idea to talk on the street to my invisible friend, Zara. So of course, I didn't step back...I sort of took it as a dare...So my friend gets on the bus and I'm walking through the streets with Zara (LOL!)--There's this woman walking and she's walking normally, until I start talking to Zara (of course I mean to the air). I say "Zara, I know people be thinking that I'm crazy, but you know? I'm not"--The woman looks at me, very strange...She prefers to walk through the street than walking through the same sidewalk I'm walking...I say "You see? They think I'm crazy, and sometimes it makes me cry!" By that time I was making believe that I was sobbing...So I start cleaning the fake tears...And the woman stops to take the bus...And I keep cleaning my tears...Of course now i was giving her my back and she couldn't see if I was faking it or not...But she heard me "crying"...So the woman whispered something (I think it was like "Oh (beep)"). That woman was amazed!

5. This one is also about Zara..(invisible friend from my monologue)
Again..I was on my way to the job..And you know..this guy just sat beside me..and I'm like..ok..So I tell this girl "Hey, they just squashed Zara"--She started to make a big deal out of it..Just like me..So then this other girl from my school couldn't see Zara (Uh duh! she's make believe)
So I tell Zara..(looking at the guy's shoulder), "Say hi to her" and then the guy turns and looks at me. I tell him "Do you see Zara?" and he's like "No!" and I said.."Over there by the pole.."
He tells me.."No, are you ok?" I was like "Yeah, you don't see her?" Some people said he was mad and was about to hit me…But you know..."It ain't my fault!"

Then the security stops me...I tell him the woman's name and whatever, he does not know her, he asks me my name to call the woman, and since I have a very weird first name + last name, the 5 times he asked me, he said it wrong...So blah blah blah, he gives me directions and I keep asking people, (hey it's a huge place), so I go through the interview, it went really bad, you can say they haven't called me...So I get out and ask him, "Which way did I come from?" and he's like "What did you take?"

"The bus."

He says, "That way, and next time you come bring a slice of bread."

I laugh and ask him "A slice of bread? Why?" (You know I thought it was 'cause I'm skinny)

"So you won't get lost" and he made believe he had one and showed me the way I was supposed to do it, I started laughing...Making fun of me...It's not my fault that place is big...Shooo

So I'm at Dunkin' Donuts and I'm having lunch...Then comes in this lady, with a some sort of jacket, color green...She sits, and she sits so weird, that it looks uncomfortable...I keep eating minding my own business...and all the papers + napkins that the woman was given, she has thrown on the floor...So, of course..I, as nosey as I am, am staring at her, and she's looking at me like "She saw me."

So the woman leaves, leaving the garbage on the floor, I'm thinking, "What the?" and she's staring at me too, she knows I saw her, and the lady just leaves, of course looking back if I'm going to say something, I was, but I don't want to get hit...So then comes the guy who's going to clean, and I'm like..."Did you see that?"

He says "What?"

"The person who did that?"

"No, was it that guy who just left?"

"No, some lady in a green jacket..."

"Oh,"

I say "How are you going to do that?"

He tells me "What? You can't believe it?"

I say "People actually do that?"

He says "Well..."

I'm like.."Well," and I just leave (I forgot what I had said before + after that)

10. One day while working, a guy came in and clearly told me, "I would like to open a checking account, what do I have to do?"

I told him, "Do you want to open it today?"

He said, "Yes" I said, "OK, sign in your name and have a seat."

The bank officers were all busy, so the guy had to wait. About 20 minutes or so passed. I went to the tellers area to help them out...I came out like lets say 20 minutes later, and started doing my work where I was earlier. The guy got up and told me, "I'm sorry miss, but how much longer do you think I should wait?" I felt so bad, I said "Ohhhh! I'm sorry, uh..."I asked the assistant manager if she can take care of a customer and she said "Sure."--I told him, "I'm sorry, you can have a seat there."

I felt really bad for him, he was waiting so long, but you know it wasn't entirely my fault...Am I right?

11. On August 13th, 1999...I was taking the train as usual to come home...One stop after I got in, two women came in with about a maximum of 10 kids...One of them had two babies in a carriage, you know those carriages with two sections, for a baby in the frong and a baby in the back? Well those. Another one was carrying another one, and aside from that they had like 7 more kids or so. The oldest one must have been 7 years old. They got in and they had to get off on the next stop to take another train. So I asked them, "Are you getting off on the next stop?"--They said "Yeah!"

The doors open and they got out, and it was closing before them leaving, so they had left a little one, who was barely one or one and a half...I saw him and I asked a woman right beside him, "Is that their child too?" and she said she shrugged like she didn't know...So I stuck my head out, holding the door, "Hey! You left a child here!"

The woman came back, and this other girl took the baby really fast and gave it to her, me holding that door about to be closed, the woman said "Oh my God! Thank you" (something like that)...and the driver was like "Let go off the door, there's a train directly behind us."