Two-Bit Hookers & Cons
“It’s a pool of sharks. Get ready for the bite,” Pappy told me over a finger of whiskey one sweltering August evening several years ago. The next morning my mother and I were to drive a U-Haul across the Mason-Dixon, over a river and into the teaming center of life, corruption, pleasure and sorrow. But I just knew that I could handle it. New York City was to be my city (as I’ve said time and again).
“No, no, no!” I told him. I could spot the cads, the fakes, the poor girls from far away lands without good sense or two honest dollars to their name. Intuition and just enough intelligence would save me from every two-bit hooker and con-artist in the Big Apple…
The wider my eyes grew and the more ardent my rhetoric became, the deeper the lines grew in Pappy’s furrowed brow. Granddaddy was a wise man.
I care deeply, I love deeply. And, at times, this has meant that I’ve put my trust in the wrong people. Even the most immoral characters I have imbued with hope and faith. No longer. I leave this week and go into the next a bit hardened… and, of course, saddened. Who were they to take away my naivete?
Time to wisen up or leave this town.
February 17th, 2006 at 9:07 am
i’m sorry to hear your troubles…and curious?
February 17th, 2006 at 9:08 am
i’m sorry to hear your troubles…and curious?
February 17th, 2006 at 9:16 am
whatever happens, never stop being “belle in the big apple”. she’s a beautiful, talented gal.
February 17th, 2006 at 9:40 am
Hopes you decide to stay. I have a feeling you can handle it … if you so choose.
Good luck in whatever you decide.
February 17th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
NYC is not all it’s cracked up to be — a haven of greed and disorder where the hardest of callouses must form over the soul. Nice place to visit, bad place to live.
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February 17th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Jesus said in one of the gospels for us to be “wise as a serpent and innocent as a dove”. Seems the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing has been around forever.
Keep your eyes open, your antenna up, and watch your rear view mirror and you can still have a tender heart.
Bitter, hardened and cynical shows up on our faces in a few years in a most unattractive way! And you are way too beautiful for that!
February 19th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
ny is a great place but mabe i m used 2 those people bcos my dad was born there n we hava lof of relatives there, u know m wen u see m, tha guidos
February 20th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
hmmmmm………..touble in paradise?