I envy you. You have great friends, they’re loyal and funny, and you’re the kind of kid I wanted to be. You’re pretty, funny, and popular. I feel so bad for you. We moved from a good neighbourhood to a ghetto before you had the chance to become a real person. Now you’re on your way, and I am terrified of who you’re becoming. It almost affected me, too, but I was old enough to understand the social suffering going on around me and set my sights on university instead. These kids who live with their mom and their mom’s drug-dealing boyfriend who kicks them out so they have to move out of town in the middle of the night without telling a soul (Three times this has happened already! Three!) are sadly probably never going to amount to anything, because they don’t know what the world can offer them besides a life of defacing public property, welfare cheques, and drug dealing at the skateboard park. Please, please, little sister. Be more than these kids. Work on your math grade and stick with your dream of veterinary school. I’ll pay for it myself. P.S. You couldn’t pay me a million dollars to raise my kids here. —Love, Concerned Older Sister
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2011.
Your sister is very lucky to have you, but she needs more than just luck. Fight hard for her OP.
Sounds like you both deserve to win this one.
skateboard park you say????
you’ve just put several people out of business….
good thing this is semi-quasi-anonymous.
just look for the shoes hanging from the wires
I know this question has been asked before but WTF does that mean? Shoes from the wires?
it marks drug dealer territories or a kid just had their shoes stolen rawk? sorry op, that’s sad, i’m glad the boy got outta dodge
Some say that shoes hanging from the wires advertise a local crack house where crack cocaine is used and sold(in which case the shoes are sometimes referred to as “Crack Tennies”).It can also relate to a place where heroin is sold to symbolize the fact that once you take heroin you can never ‘leave’: a reference to the addictive nature of the drug. Others claim that the shoes so thrown commemorate a gang-related murder, or the death of a gang member, or as a way of marking gang turf.
basically, pay more attention to them if you see them around…. just in case.
Thanks guys. Filed away and noted for future reference. There’s a pair hanging in the wires at the bus stop at Micke-Macke mall.
that IS in dartmouth….
quelle surprise.
I’m guessing they don’t drink over there,
they don’t want to throw up all the baggies at once.
My dacha is across the street. Last night around 8:30 a police K-9 unit were working the grounds in hot pursuit of something. Bee-yoo-tiful German Shepherd. Didn’t hear any screams so the perp is probably still in the wind.
http://fop86.com/funny-dog-pictures-bad-co…