adventures w/a broken axle
Oct. 10th, 2004 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinpraThe axle broke on my mom's car on our way to pick someone up to go to church. Not fun. Happened just as we were getting off the highway. Anywho a nice guy stopped and helped us get the axle straight and get our butt out of the highway. Finally the tow truck came (woohoo! Triple A!) and the guy got us on the flatbed and gave us a ride back to the mechanic who had supposedly fixed the axle yesterday, which is near my home.
So while the guy drove us home (although he didn't know we were literally around the corner) he was talking about his life. This was actually prompted by an earlier incident w/a kid who stopped by and asked him for some money, which my Mom actually gave him w/o his asking. God had been good to us, she was going to be good to him too. Anywho, he was talking about his life, which was a hard one. It was interesting hearing him talk. Ironically enough I had been watching VH1's "And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop." Now hip-hop has never really been my cup of tea, but between watching the 5-part documentary and listening to Tow Truck guy's story, I understand why: hip-hop and rap [now] speak to a life I've never lived or really witnessed. Yes I grew up in the ghetto, living in the projects but so much of what hip-hop and rap talk about has never applied to me. But listening to this man I can see how it would apply to someone who's lived a street life. I talked to my mom about it on the bus ride to church (as you can probably guess, we were late) and she agreed. My issue was w/people who are into hip-hop/rap and don't have that kind of life. She replied that it also speaks to people with internal kinds of turmoil. Which makes sense. Those are the same people who are into artists like Staind, KoRN and Papa Roach.
So while the guy drove us home (although he didn't know we were literally around the corner) he was talking about his life. This was actually prompted by an earlier incident w/a kid who stopped by and asked him for some money, which my Mom actually gave him w/o his asking. God had been good to us, she was going to be good to him too. Anywho, he was talking about his life, which was a hard one. It was interesting hearing him talk. Ironically enough I had been watching VH1's "And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop." Now hip-hop has never really been my cup of tea, but between watching the 5-part documentary and listening to Tow Truck guy's story, I understand why: hip-hop and rap [now] speak to a life I've never lived or really witnessed. Yes I grew up in the ghetto, living in the projects but so much of what hip-hop and rap talk about has never applied to me. But listening to this man I can see how it would apply to someone who's lived a street life. I talked to my mom about it on the bus ride to church (as you can probably guess, we were late) and she agreed. My issue was w/people who are into hip-hop/rap and don't have that kind of life. She replied that it also speaks to people with internal kinds of turmoil. Which makes sense. Those are the same people who are into artists like Staind, KoRN and Papa Roach.