I made the absolutely horrible mistake today of thinking that a sidewalk on a public street was city property. Silly me.
Not going to go into detail here out of respect of the police officers, who were really chill about the whole situation, but this a**hole starts giving me crap about how I need to "Get the f off of the property, when A. I was on the sidewalk and B. I was leaving (and he knew that) until the guy pulled me over telling me to get off of property. Apparently, I was in the wrong because the sidewalk for 100 feet in either direction is their property but how am I supposed to know that? There's absolutely no indication of it, and as I said, it's a PUBLIC street. Yeah, i'm normally really calm, friendly, and apolegitec when someone harrases me like that, but the moment you say I have to leave public property, and you're not an authority figure? Yeah i'm going to open a verbal can of whoop-ass. And now i'm thinking what if I wanna use that street to get to a certain place (it saves well over half the time compared to going around, but yet again, public street), or better yet, what if I wanna go to my friends softball practice (not that I have any intention to) am I going to have to "get the f**k of property"? Oh and to make this whole thing even better, the a different guy told me last time, "as long as you're on the sidewalk it's ok." Do you know what the guy said when I told him that? "Yeah, well he's not *point to himself* this guy." SO? A co-worker of yours gave me rules, and I followed them. Whatever. I'm an all-honors student, I don't need that crap. (Also, what pissed me off the most out of all of this, was because he called the cops after I "refused to leave" when as I said, he pulled me over, and said he wanted to talk to me, just so he could say get off the property. Then all I said, was "I don't have to, i'm on a sidewalk which is public property." And I was about to walk away, but he said "That's it, i'm calling the cops" and I wasn't gonna leave then, because that would look extraordinarily bad for me.) Yet again though, I wanna thank the P/O's who showed up, for being very calm about the whole thing, and giving me a chance to speak. Thumbs up to all of you guys. (Actually, from what i've seen, most of the cops in Albany are actually really nice and unerstanding.)
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Another rant!
So, my friend told me yesterday that the teacher said (been out all week due to sickness) if everybody hands in their current events, and the past ones they missed, that the whole class wouldn't have to do them for the rest of the year. She also said that the teacher specifically mentioned me. So, I wake up around ~9:30 (no point in waking up early if you're sick) and since my internet is acting up, not wanting to be that one guy who screws it up for everybody (even though I have no doubt in my mind there were at least three people who didn't do it) so, despite being sick, I grab my laptop and trek to the library. Well after sending them all in, I walk home, and apparently my teacher saw me (a different one) so apparently somehow, I was brought up in conversation, and he goes "Yeah, I just saw him roaming the streets." I know the faculty doesn't know i'm sick, (even though my mom has called the school three times about it, but it still keeps getting listed as "Unexcused Absence") but that was just disrespectful. Man, what kills me is that he's my third favorite teacher i've had this year, and i'm just surprised he would do that. So now people keep e-mailing me saying "he saw you" or whatevs shit like that, and I keep telling them "IM SICK, I JUST NEEDED TO GET THAT DAMN ASSIGNMENT DONE" Luckily my friend who knows i'm sick, (the other one is in Jersey) stood up for me, because I told her yesterday that I would have to go to the library to get it sent. So now we're up to at least two teachers who think, or at least thought I somehow managed to skip for a week. I don't care though, this teacher is still up there in my book
Carry on...