"Dammit!" I curse softly to myself. Could this get any worse? Really could it? My eyes scan over and over this stranger's patio. First I go to the wrong damn apartment to pick up my friend. I mean, this is where my GPS lead me to, how was I supposed to know it was further down the road? Then on the way back to my car, by some weird and freak accident I dropped my keys and kicked them at the same time. That would happen today. Of all days, it would happen today.
I watched helplessly as my keys were kicked into the vegetation hideaway of whoever lives at this apartment. Come on, who the hell has like a 100 different plants on their porch? These are ghetto ass apartments, nothing more. Probably here to hide illegal activities. Standing on the sidewalk I try to see if I can spot my keys from a distance. No way in hell I can spot shit.
I really don't want to walk on this person's porch. I mean it would look weird and they might think I am a burglar or something. That's the last thing I need today. But I can't leave without my keys. I can't even call for help because I left my freaking cell in the locked car! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!
Screw it, I need my keys. I timidly walk on the stranger's porch. Maybe I should knock first, tell them the situation. Yeah right. First this is not the best apartments. Well probably the best to get drugs or a cheap whore, 2 things that I don't really have a taste for. Even if they were not, they would probably call the cops thinking I'm a weirdo wanting to steal their plants. Damn it. I'll just do this fast and get the hell out of here.
Moving fully on this porch I pass by the front door. Please don't come out and find me like this. I scan again but don't see my keys anywhere. Trying to do this fast, I place my foot in between 2 plants and lean over searching for my keys. Scanning and brushing vegetation to the side I try desperately to find my keys. I know it fell over here, I heard it and kinda saw it. I still don't see them. Damn it!
I move my other foot between 2 other potted plants, becoming completely surrounded by this person's plants. Brushing more and more vegetation from my face so I can search, I still don't see my damn keys. I lean over more to try and find them. Hurry up! Find them.
My heart stops beating for a second as I hear a door rushed to be open. Of course, it would happen. The door to the ghetto garden only a few feet behind me swings open. And here I stand, looking like a complete idiot, deep inside the person's make-shift garden. Damn it. Could this day get any worse.
"What the heellllll you think you doing?" I hear a voice filled with attitude call out. I can't even see the owner but have a strong feeling she is black or Latina. I look behind me, "Oh. Look, this looks weird but-" Then I turn to see her face. Her face is very upset. It quickly lights up as if she has seen me or knows something about me.
"So you back huh mothafucka?!" she yells in a truly ghetto sounding voice. She yells so loud I am sure every neighbor will be looking. Then again this looks like a place where you mind your own business. Wait, what? Back? "I'm sorry, but I was trying to find my keys, I've never been-" I try to explain, but the way she looks at me, she doesn't understand English.
"Fuck that mothafucka! Tell it to da fucking po-pos!" She says, her head bobbing. Po-pos? COPS?! "Wait a sec." I say my hands in the air to show I mean no harm. The cops can't come. Even by some miracle I talk myself out of this, there is no way they will not run my license. When they do, they will see the hundreds, if not thousands in unpaid traffic tickets.
"Wait, wait!" panic sounding in my voice. "Let me explain." I say, trying hard to get out of the garden. I move in front of her, but she already has her cell out, dialing a number. "Please!" I downright beg. "Let me explain!" I beg harder. She stares at me with hate in those brown eyes. Never before have I felt so helpless. So helpless to some ghetto drug using whore.
"Yeah right, no body steals from me!" She says and walks inside her apartment. "Look please, I'll do anything, just let me explain!" I beg leaning into her apartment. I'm giving her space, I don't want to rush in, that would make me look even worse. What can I do? I am so helpless. I am truly helpless. I can't get in my car and leave, because my keys are gone. I can't use my cell because it is inside the locked car. I can't escape because this ghetto ass apartment complex has a locked gate that only opens to a car's pressure on the road. What do I do?! I can either sit and wait for the cops to some, or convince her not to call them.
"Please, I'll do anything! Just let me explain." I beg in fear. The girl looks at me with a raised eyebrow. She stays staring at me, as if trying to think of something. The broken gears in the bitch's mind are turning. Please...please. Don't let her call the cops.
"Pull down your pants." She says out of the blue with an attitude. "WHAT?!" I exclaim in shock. Did she just say for me to pull down my pants? "WHY?" I exclaim again, completely shocked. She can't mean what I think she means. Her serious face tells me different.
"Pull down your mothafuckin pants! If you want to explain, that's what you gots to do!" She says serious and firm, but lowering her cell a bit. She stares at me. My mouth is open from the shock. "Why?" I ask again not understanding at all.
"Cause you ain't gonna run off if you ain't got no pants. You be easy to spot mothafucka." She states with attitude, her head bobbing. For a second I am even more shocked, not by the request but that it is a smart thought. That would prevent most from running off. With no pants you are not as likely to run off. Plus people will spot you easier.
Do I really want to pull down my pants? No, I don't. I mean, I don't know her! She could claim I exposed myself or something. Plus I am outside! It would be so damn humiliating. Plus anyone could see. Oh God, do I really have to? Either that or jail. I'm not going to assault her. She or a friend of hers may shot me or something.