Me and my friends(Haight, Spike, James) were walking downtown , Spike giving me grief about looking like a preppy.
?You need to ditch that shirt Ritalin. You look like a college boy. Who wants to go to the College Boy Festival of Animation??
The spare change kids had changed or I had or both but the ratio of little idiots to nice happy camping kids was way out of wack. I went to flyer two Asian girls and not speaking English they didn?t understand what the hell I wanted. A crusty panhandler jumped up and yelled at them in mock Chinese, or Vietnames or some stange combination.
?Ho chi wong dong kung dung pow bitch.?
The girls ran off scared out of their wits and I confronted the crusty. ?What the fuck was that you little asshole??
?You calling me an asshole??
?You are an asshole. That was totally lame.?
He kept yelling and carrying on as Spike and James got further down the road. I decided to just leave it be so I turned to split but the kid pushed me. I turned and punched him in the face. This put him on the ground and made me feel bad. He looked like he was fine so I kept walking. I caught up with Spike and James just as the kid caught up with me.
?I?m gonna kick your ass!? he was screaming. Spike and James are both broad shouldered intimidating looking guys and they puffed up and told him to fuck off, which he did for a moment. We started walking again, but then, as I was halfway across and intersection, standing in the street, he shoved me again. I turned with my fist ready.
?Dude, your nose is bleeding. I don?t want to hit you again.?
He tried to kick me but his baggy pants stopped his foot literally halfway to his target, my balls. I started laughing and continued walking. Than I heard a primal crazy scream. I turned to see him running up the street after me again. I had just passed another panhandling kid who jumped up and caught the crusty before he reached me slamming him against a storefront window which somehow didn?t break.
?He called me an asshole!? the kid yelled.
?Well you are an asshole.? His friend countered. I kept walking. Thing were in good hands.
Spike took the story and ran with it. ?Ritalin punched some homeless kid.? Came first. Then it was, ?Shit, Ritalin can?t stop punching people, employees, crippled homeless kids?? eventually it evolved to ?So this homeless guy in a wheelchair tries to hand Ritalin a flower and Ritalin goes crazy and punches him right in his face.?
I took the story over from there. ?Yeah, it was great. I hit him and the chair goes flying backwards down one of them steep SF streets, and he?s trying to communicate through the little speak and spell box cuz he?s like a Stephan Hawking type guy but he?s hitting the wrong button and the box keeps going ?masterbate, masterbate, masterbate? and I?m thinking, damn, whats he need that word for anyway.? Spike the Shit Eater gave up and just waited for the cat shit eating story to die.