Someone Offered to Sell Me Drugs on Friday
While I was waiting for the bus on Friday evening, a guy walking by offered to sell me some drugs, using a figure of speech I'd never heard before. Here is the reconstructed dialogue, as best as I can remember it.
The scene: I'm sitting on a bench waiting for the bus. It's cold. A guy comes walking up the sidewalk and we make eye contact.
Him: Are you looking for the trees, man?
Me: Huh?
Him: Are you looking for the trees, man?
[I look over my shoulder to see if I can figure out what he's referring to, thinking that maybe I'll spot some trees in spite of the fact that there's a GIANT BUILDING behind me. I turn back.]
Him: You really didn't hear me?
Me: No.
[He leans in close.]
Him: You looking for the trees? You know--the herb?
Me: Uh, no.
Him: Oh, ok.
That was pretty much it.
posted by Eric @ 9:25 PM
3 Comments:
Well, perhaps if you'd been carrying your Dictionary of Slang, you could have been more on top of the situation.
Yeah, no doubt. I suppose if I had been, I wouldn't have had to say 'huh?' over and over and over again.
You don't listen to enough hip-hop.
Trees, shrubs, greenery ...
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