Spectacle on the Streets of Philadelphia
May 24th, 2010 by Alex
Walking down Lombard Street towards 7th, we heard a woman yelling. Raving mad. We turned and saw no one. A few seconds later a car rolls down the street, the driver screaming her head off. She’s turned slightly towards her passenger; he is slumped down in the seat looking dejected, not even attempting to get a word in edgewise. Unreal.
But then the driver stops in the middle of the block. She turns to devote her full attention to the berating of her passenger. “Get out,” she yells. “Get out of the car now!” We keep walking and eventually hear car horns urging the woman — who is holding up a stream of traffic at this point — to continue on down the block. She does, yelling the whole time even as she passes us and disappears from view and earshot. I had never seen or heard anything like it.
Approaching 5th, we heard the woman again. I turned to my friend and said “she must have pulled in around the corner.” But no, the car was stopped at the corner of Lombard & 5th. The woman was out of the car now, pulling three children out of the back seat while yelling at them. The kids were a mess, visibly distressed and crying. “I should just leave you right here.” The passenger in the front seat was still there, looking about the same, as if there was nothing happening. It dawned upon all of us about the same moment, that the whole time she’d been yelling at the kids. Our collective reaction was one of shock.
“I should have adopted,” the mother screamed. “Ungrateful.”
I can’t even remember the rest.
That is terribly sad, bro.