Fuuuuuuuu-
I left home at 7:15 a.m. and got home at around 11:25 p.m. today, whatever happened to catching up on all the homework I haven't been doing? (I have to do my outlines, ID's, envrnmtl sci vocab, Spanish 'project', study for APES and APUSH and English, and write a story based on Candide. All tomorrow. And I didn't start a single one of these assignments..)
I always felt somewhat uneasy about Diamond Plaza. I mean, Yes Plaza, Hong Kong Supermarket, SF Supermarket, 99 Ranch, H-Mart, etc etc had always seemed harmless enough. But there was always something... I dunno, different about Diamond Plaza?
Went into Cue at around 9:30. I don't know if anyone noticed, but by 10 the scantily-clad Asian hotties with dramatic eyeliner started coming in. It didn't bother me that much then. So Cynthia's dad led the last of us to leave Cue at around 11:10 (ridiculous, considering we took like NO pictures ]:).
There was a group of some 6-7 suspicious looking guys outside Cue. The type you'd avoid if you saw them coming a mile away. People whose names spell "trouble". (and possibly "gangs" and "pot" and "I'd tap that", among other things). Cynthia's dad walked out of the store first, followed by Cynthia and her friend. I straggled a couple feet behind them, because I was struggling to secure the camera in my neck pouch.
When I walked by the group of shady guys there was, to my horror, a
deliberate tap on my shoulder. The kind that says, "Hey,
you... turn around..." and sends chills down your spine..
My natural response is to ask what's up, but in the split second I imagined that if I'd turned around, the guy'd ask me something along the lines of, "Want some meth?"
Later it ocurred to me that I was probably overthinking things, that the guy may have simply wanted to ask, "Do you have change for $20?"
But I didn't speculate, didn't take any chances. And pretending I didn't feel the tap, I HURRIED THE HELL OUTTA THERE.
Scary! Kiddies, don't go to Diamond Plaza at night. Not past 10, at any rate. Just don't.
Asian night life in the U.S.? Yeah, not as friendly as the stalls of Taiwanese night markets. :|