PLO Style

More gunshots tonight. So EFFing lame. I lived here a year, nothing, last 2 months 3 times I’ve heard gunshots. One time it was in broad daylight at like 5 o’clock! Not good imo.

What pisses me off almost as much as the fact that there are gun shots in my neighborhood is my reaction to it. First time I hit the deck, lock the door, crawl on my belly to my daughter’s room and call 911. Second time I call 911, I’m on edge, it takes like 2 minutes to talk to a human being and that pisses me off, what if I was the one shot or in a worse circumstance and had one chance to call 911?! Tonight, I hear shots, listen for screaming or cars peeling out, calling 911, wait and wait some more “Hi I heard gunshots at 62nd and San Pablo, no screaming, no cars”…transfer…say the same again, “okay thank you, have a nice night.” Totally standard, very little emotion. It should not be this way.

No one should be okay with gunshots in their neighborhood. It should not be the norm, or nothing to worry about. It should cause concern, an uproar even, but no, just another day in Oakland. And yes, I did say Oakland. As in CA, as in famously crime-ridden and violent city, but that doesn’t mean the people here don’t deserve to live without gun fire out there windows. Fwiw I actually live in a fairly decent neighborhood, except for the one corner down the block, one block the other way and you’d never imagine what’s around the corner.

Time to move, imo.

(Oh, and this relates to my poker playing because A: it tilts me and B: my desk is next a window).