If you're ever in downtown LA and need a cool place to hang out, you should go here:http://www.edisondowntown.com/
If you check out their map, it's pretty huge, and they have small dance shows with flapper girls like every hour. And there was no cover when we went which made it even more awesome!
My friend was looking for parking at the mall yesterday and saw a young asian couple arguing and yelling at each other, with the guy actually shoving the girl a few times. They were screaming at each other in Cantonese, which my friend can kind of understand. She made out a few sentences - one about how the woman wanted to be alone and was going inside the mall and another about how he was making a scene. The woman finally headed into the mall, her husband following not far behind her with her purse. Everyone was now inside the mall, along with my friend, and the couple was still yelling at each other. People have begun to stare and he was still shoving her. My friend, at this point, remembered this episode of Oprah she had seen (yes, you can call her an "O" fan) about "What would you do in this situation?" One of the scenarios was exactly like this one where the guy was screaming at his wife and shoving her. So my friend, who didn't want to be one of those people who did nothing about the situation, decided to do something about it. She went up to the girl while the guy was still yelling at her, and asked her if she was okay and if she needed her to call security. The woman said she was fine. Another older couple then approached and asked the woman the same thing and decided to call security. At this point, my friend was literally standing inbetween the man, who was still screaming at the woman, and the woman. The lady from the older couple then told the man who was screaming, that he should give the purse back to the woman. He then said, "She's my wife, what does it matter?" He ended up giving her purse back while security arrived and it turned out that security couldn't do anything because nothing was really going on. They all came to the agreement that the husband would go home and leave his wife there, whom my friend volunteered to take home. My friend actually did take her home and found out that the reason they were arguing was because the woman didn't get along with her husband's parents, who despise her because after they got married, their son moved out to live with her, his wife (what decade are we in again?)!
Anyways, the whole point behind this is what would you have done? Would you have just walked away and let it happen or would you have done something about it? Truthfully, I probably would have just walked away because 1.) I wouldn't want to get involved and 2.) the husband seemed like a violent person. But then after thinking that, #2 should make me want to do something even more to help and I'm in a public place so I would most likely be safe. But really, I still don't think I would step in, but I guess I have to be in that situation to really know. I never thought that my friend was the type of person who would step in and invite a stranger into her car (I guess Oprah works in mysterious ways, haha). She's usually very non-confrontational and can be shy at times, so it surprised me that she did that, but i totally give her props!
"All these fixtures are like fixed."
Friend 1: "We should come here when we don't have any other place to go."
Friend 2: "Or if we feel like sucking blood, haha."
There's this old man I work with - he's Hispanic, kind of short, wears glasses, and has a slight tummy. He can barely speak English, but he says cute funny things like "I like happy people." I had lunch with him one day, and his wife packed him his lunch but he didn't know what she had packed for him. When he unpacked his lunch, he slowly opened up a foil-wrapped package to reveal a sandwich to which he let out a happy "ooo!" He then opened up his tupperware to reveal some fruit, which he then a gave an "ahhh!" to. It was so endearing. This is the same man who pulled my co-worker aside and told her, "Hey, I have a secret. Don't tell anybody ok? It's Friday!" and then he laughs and says "Shhh" with a smile.
There is another old guy I work with - I describe him as a chubbier version of Mr. Miyagi. He's very sarcastic and when he was eating lunch one day at this diner, an older couple came up to him and asked him for his autograph, thinking he was actually Pat Morita (the guy who played Mr. Miyagi), so he said, "Ok" and signed their napkin...but he signed his own name, and when the couple saw it, they were surprised to see that they had made a mistake.
And then there's this little skinny old Russian man with his fur-collared coat and cute little hat, who passes by our store every once in awhile and waves to my other older co-worker. His wave is not just one of those one-handed waves; It's one of those two-handed waves, like how little kids sometimes do. My older co-worker then waves back and gives him one of those army salutes with the straight posture and everything. My co-worker once saw the two old men talking with each other and she asked my older co-worker what they were talking about, and he said "I don't know. He was talking to me in Russian and I didn't understand him, so I replied in Chinese."
Things like this bring a smile to my face but it reminds of how much I miss having old cute people around.
So I've discovered something...if you want your child to grow up to be a petite, loud girl with a big personality, name her Diana. It's strange - I know three Dianas and they all fit that description...and I love them all!
If you're ever in downtown LA and need a cool place to hang out, you should go here: