Song of the day - Worn Me Down, Rachael Yamagata
Passage of the day - At some point in the evening, one of the other fathers made an offhand comment that my father took exception to; a heated discussion ensued, and my father ended up stabbing the guy with a dessert fork, breaking the skin. What the guy said was unimportant; actually, what he said was, he was reminiscing about where he had grown up as a kid and he remarked that "It used to be a good neighborhood, you know, white, now, forget it. I went back there last month, it's half white, the rest: blacks and Italians." My mom's Italian. EMS was called, and the dance? Well, let's just say the stabbing concluded the dancing portion of the evening ... My father's justification for the assault, after explaining how he didn't immediately attack him, and how he had given the "rich jerk" ample opportunity to apologize, and how he won't tolerate a bigot no matter where he is, and "What if your mom or 'Rasheed from the deli' had been there, and how he still doesn't understand why I need to go to that stuck-up school anyway. In the end, what he finally said was "It was just a fork." - Jesus Hopped the A Train, Stephen Adly Guirgis
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