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Tony_Balony
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 Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject: The time I saw our building's pretty girl on the corner |
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I lived in downtown Seattle during the 90's in an old brownstone. We had low rent, a great location and some great characters. The building had a name but I can't recall what it was. It took just a few minutes to get to Seattle's most famous landmarks or social places. It was a great place to be for a few years. The place was populated by young unmarrieds.
I become fond of "Suzy". She was nice and had moderate taste and flakeyness. Back then , the women dressed like S&M workers, punk rockers , grunge queens or neohippies. Suzy drifted into neohippie adornments but generally it was just form fitting dresses for her.
I asked Suzy out 3 times and she declined three times. She didn't want to go the Grateful Dead show, she didn't want to go to the Crocodile Cafe and she didn't want to eat at the five Points Cafe. I cooled my approaches
after that, we were still cordial but I got the message.
A year later it was time to move on and I was carrying stuff to the moving van. It was really late. I started after work and moving always takes a long time. I carried the bookshelf out and I saw Suzy, she was on the corner and wrapped in a form fitting dress flagging cars down. I think she was a 'ho. I think she ran into some hard luck and needed money. I didn't know what to do so I didn't do anything. I was in a position that made it easy to see her but not vice versa. I walked past her to get more stuff and she saw me. she looked at the ground, showed a very defeatist face and sighed "noooo". |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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If you call someone "Mr Brownstone" what does that infer?
hes an arrogant middle income pot smoker? |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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If you call someone "Mr Brownstone" what does that infer?
hes an arrogant middle income pot smoker? |
I'm not familiar with that term. Really, I haven't heard it used that way before. |
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R-Seoul
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
Location: your place
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Brownstone is slang for heroin |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| TY for the info. I'm not in the junky scene. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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R-Seoul: As in Guns 'n roses.
Tony Balony: If someone lives in a brownstone house does that mean they are well off?
Oh and, did you feel sympathy for the girl? |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I walked past her to get more stuff and she saw me. she looked at the ground, showed a very defeatist face and sighed "noooo". |
So, she wouldn't even date you if you paid her? |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Tony Balony: If someone lives in a brownstone house does that mean they are well off? |
In New York City living in brownstone means you are well off. In Seattle, it means its an old building and that the renters are frugal.
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Oh and, did you feel sympathy for the girl?
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merlot
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
Location: I tried to contain myself but I escaped.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:44 pm Post subject: Re: The time I saw our building's pretty girl on the corner |
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I lived in downtown Seattle during the 90's in an old brownstone. We had low rent, a great location and some great characters. The building had a name but I can't recall what it was. It took just a few minutes to get to Seattle's most famous landmarks or social places. It was a great place to be for a few years. The place was populated by young unmarrieds.
I become fond of "Suzy". She was nice and had moderate taste and flakeyness. Back then , the women dressed like S&M workers, punk rockers , grunge queens or neohippies. Suzy drifted into neohippie adornments but generally it was just form fitting dresses for her.
I asked Suzy out 3 times and she declined three times. She didn't want to go the Grateful Dead show, she didn't want to go to the Crocodile Cafe and she didn't want to eat at the five Points Cafe. I cooled my approaches
after that, we were still cordial but I got the message.
A year later it was time to move on and I was carrying stuff to the moving van. It was really late. I started after work and moving always takes a long time. I carried the bookshelf out and I saw Suzy, she was on the corner and wrapped in a form fitting dress flagging cars down. I think she was a 'ho. I think she ran into some hard luck and needed money. I didn't know what to do so I didn't do anything. I was in a position that made it easy to see her but not vice versa. I walked past her to get more stuff and she saw me. she looked at the ground, showed a very defeatist face and sighed "noooo". |
Interesting story you have there.
As a genre, I'd say it's an excellent short-short story (even though I know you probably weren't penning it as such). |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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Interesting story you have there.
As a genre, I'd say it's an excellent short-short story (even though I know you probably weren't penning it as such). |
TY. If the story and or writing is any good, its because the story has been told in my head literally everyday for 10 years. It only takes a fraction of a second to think about it. I was pretty smitten with her for about two months so she left a strong memory.
The situation begets plenty of questions. "So she'd go down on strange men in their car for $50 but not go to dinner with you?" being the most obvious. "How come you are so good as spotting prostitutes?" "why didn't you go over and get some, Tony?" "Is it because you're a dork?"
I think she was broke and it was rent time. She didn't have a car so doing a higher paying and more dignified outcall job was not an option.
The whole subject of the oblique effects of sex work and johnning are interesting. I did use an escort service at least once in Seattle. They sent an attractive woman over. A few days later I ran into her at the aforementioned Grateful Dead show. We didn't say hello. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:23 am Post subject: Re: The time I saw our building's pretty girl on the corner |
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| I didn't know what to do so I didn't do anything. |
Your powers of exposition have me rethinking my chosen career field. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject: Re: The time I saw our building's pretty girl on the corner |
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| Tony_Balony wrote: |
| I lived in downtown Seattle during the 90's in an old brownstone. We had low rent, a great location and some great characters. The building had a name but I can't recall what it was. It took just a few minutes to get to Seattle's most famous landmarks or social places. It was a great place to be for a few years. The place was populated by young unmarrieds. |
Did the dot.commers move you out? I remember it became in vogue for the dot.com types to move into the warehouse/artist district. Everyone got bored of living next to another Microsoft engineer in an eastside apartment complex. It became cool to be living among starving musicians and artists. Rents went up, the artists moved out. Everyone still pretended they were living next to artists and musicians, of course. |
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