Monday, May 12, 2008

Thug life



My husband owns a landscape company. He worked for another company for about 7 years before doing his own gig. He took the opportunity to learn Spanish from his co-workers, or as he calls it "Mexican" because it's not really Spanish.
I tell him it's sexy when he speaks it. I called him a few months ago and he said something to his employee- I told him it sounded so sexy. He told his employee to "Go around back and weed eat the yard. Watch out for dogshit."


SO he was working on Saturday, in a very wealthy part of town, and noticed a silver truck pass by really slowly a few times. The truck was driven by somebody who was Mexican (or Latino) and had dealer tags. He went to the back of the house to come back and find he was jacked. They tried to steal his heavier equipment but luckily he keeps it cabled together. They stole his hand tools (wrenches, saws, etc) his rakes, shovels, gas cans, etc. He knew it had to be that silver truck, and because it was most likely a Mexican man driving he went to the predominately Mexican area of town to see if he could find the truck.


This part of town is so bad the city changed the name of the road where most of the bad stuff is. There are lots of day labor, low end apartments, drugs, and who knows what else. My husband is familiar with this area because he would sometimes drop off coworkers.
He sees the truck in front of a store. He blocks the truck in, sticks his gun into his waistband and walks into the store.
DH: "Who the f@ck owns that truck"
Man: "No speak English"
DH (in 'Mexican') "Who the f@ck owns that truck?"
Man "I don't know"
A man DH worked with years ago is in the store shopping and walks around the corner. DH loves this guy, and after catching up he tells the friend what's going on. He told him a few guns ran out the door when they saw DH. (Gee, do you think it's the hair or the GUN?)
DH goes to the truck and gets all his stuff back. Then he drives off without incident.
I could kick his ass for this- risking your life for a shovel.But on the other hand-
don't mess with my man! He's thug to the end!

2 comments:

Mrs. Booms said...

He is so Bad Ass... I had to capitalize that, because his is just that rad.

Janis said...

I know! I told him the bad boy thing was getting me all worked up!