Weirdest thing someone has yelled at you in Crown Heights.

Hey so in order to keep the topic count up I've decided to ask "What is the weirdest thing someone has yelled or angrily said to you on the streets of Crown Heights?"

For me it was someone I passed on the street angrily stated "You keep smiling boy!" Funny thing is I'm having a great day but I wasn't smiling. I actually only crossed the street when he was crossing. So I have no idea why or how I angered him.

How about you?

I got this one recently:

"Yo, did you used to work at Riker's?"

I have a cat sitter in crown heights. I went to drop off my cat before leaving for vacation. A young girl (around 16) yelled at me from across the street "get out of my neighborhood"

An elderly man with a cane once yelled "YOU LOOK BRITISH!" and threw his cane at me. Corner of St. Marks and Franklin. Wasn't sure if I should walk the cane back over to him. Didn't.

PLG, not CH, but many years ago (mid-'70s?) on my block of Midwood Street, an elderly man deliberately stopped his car short in front of mine so that I just missed rear-ending him. He got out of his car and yelled that he was a retired police officer from Jamaica and that he knew what I was doing. He then drove off, repeatedly jamming on his brakes, in an attempt to cause a crash. I had never seen him before, or since.

While this was not said to me, but towards two friends who were on their way home on bikes to Park Slope "welcome to Crown Heights - where Park Slope gets all its crown mouldings"!

Lmfao at this!!!

HownCreights said:

An elderly man with a cane once yelled "YOU LOOK BRITISH!" and threw his cane at me. Corner of St. Marks and Franklin. Wasn't sure if I should walk the cane back over to him. Didn't.

Haha, that's great! I'm glad you didn't give him his cane back. He probably would have hit you with it.

I'm a fair-skinned white lady who moved to Crown Heights just over 5 years ago. At that time, I often heard calls of "Hey, snowflake!" or "Hey, Britney!"

I still occasionally get calls like this when I cross Eastern Pkwy., but rarely on the northern side.

AP- I think people stop commenting on individual snowflakes when there has been a bizzard.

I had a homeless woman who was either off her meds, or on someone else's approach me and demand to know if she looked like Beyonce. I responded "Yeah, when she was younger." She gaped at me and moved on. The African vendor who was standing outside his store said she had been using the same question to harass a bunch of people and I was the first person to actually answer her without it turning into a fight.

whynot_31 said:

AP- I think people stop commenting on individual snowflakes when there has been a bizzard.

Exactly. Thanks for the laugh!

I once had a man explain to my how cow penis is a delicacy in the Caribbean. I have yet to see it on a menu, though.

An elderly man with a cane once yelled "YOU LOOK BRITISH!" and threw his cane at me. Corner of St. Marks and Franklin. Wasn't sure if I should walk the cane back over to him. Didn't.

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

Okay, that just made my day! Sorry that you had a cane thrown your way, but thank you for sharing that.

"Are you Russian or Polish? Do you want to have lunch? I'm a teacher, so I'm in a helping profession!" All blurted out rapidly by a shy looking gentleman. And I look visibly Andean though am often thought to be Middle Eastern or Northern African. But NOT Russian or Polish.

A woman was shouting (seemingly to herself) on the corner of Prospect and Franklin. I turned the corner onto Franklin from Prospect just as she shouted and it startled me. She looked right at me and said, "The f*ck are you lookin' at, mayonnaise?" I laughed so hard, totally involuntarily. I don't think that made her any less mad.

The night before the West Indian parade, I passed by about four guys who were decorated in the flags of their countries, and were sharing a bottle of liquor.

One of them looked at me at said "What are you doing here? What Island are you from?"

I responded: "Ireland."

The three guys looked at their friend and said "Oh Snap!", and playfully whacked him in the head.

...I laughed and kept walking.

Note: My family left Ireland in approximately 1860.

The Invisible Lines said:

A woman was shouting (seemingly to herself) on the corner of Prospect and Franklin. I turned the corner onto Franklin from Prospect just as she shouted and it startled me. She looked right at me and said, "The f*ck are you lookin' at, mayonnaise?" I laughed so hard, totally involuntarily. I don't think that made her any less mad.

MAYONNAISE! Are you f**king kidding me? That just made me laugh like a crazy woman. Hilarious!

And here I thought "snowflake" was funny.

not weird typical, yelling if i pass by some areas like "pork fried rice" or chink or other slurs.