me and my great night @ Temple University
I never go out at Temple. Before last night, I'd never been to an off campus Temple Party. I'd been to one party on campus. Well, last night, after I went to Olde City with Caitlyn, Steph's roomate, and met up with Tom, Steph's man, and his friends, we went back to campus and were chilling at some annoying kid's place. Then Tom is like on the phone and says "You guys wanna go to a party?" So at 12:30 AM we leave to go to this party on 17th and Diamond, aka off campus North Philly. But I'm just like whatever, if there are tons of other people at this party, and they felt okay going there, I'll be fine. Plus, I had only had like 2 beers and I wanted more. I mean who has like 2 beers and stops? Or is satisfied with that? Honestly. So we get the Temple Shuttle dude to give us a ride and he drops us off at 17th and diamond and Tom's on the phone trying to find this house that is apparently down 17th. So we start walking. And there is a crew of like 4 young black dudes, i'd say about 17, 18, but big dudes, walking down the one side of the street, and we cross the street, and two of them do. And it looks shady as shit and I'm like OMG, but not really. I'm like OMG in my overly dramatic way, not really in a way that i think anything would actually happen. Tom's still on the phone and this one dude is walking past him and SCREAMS in his face. Of course Tom jumps. Anyone walking down the street who just randomly screams at you is gonna make you jump. I mean seriously. So the guys continue walking a little bit and start saying "Oh he jumped he jumped, WHOOP HIS ASS!" "Whoop his ass!" over and over and Tom's like shit. b/c the guys are walking back towards us. and now starting to be like "Girls, come back here." So we see a house with lights on and white college kids inside so we go in, even though we don't think it's the party we're supposed to go to. When we get inside, we realize it isn't. But we don't care. We're standing there and i'm just thoroughly freaked out. This kid at the party of course comes up to me and is like "Why aren't you smiling?" and I explain the story of what just happened and he's like oh. guess that pick up line didn't work (he didn't really say that but i'm assuming that's what went through his head. he probably also made a note to self to not use that line again.) So we see a group of kids leave and Tom's like "Shit, we should've gone with them, we should really leave with a group." But we don't and we chill for a second longer and we hear the kegs are kicked and i'm like "BUT I'M THIRSTY" and Cait pulls a Yuengling out of her purse. Cait is fully Mary Poppins. Anyways, then all of a sudden this dude comes staggering in the house, his face bleeding, his eye and nose and lip all busted up. He got jumped by 4 black guys. They started harassing the kids for money and they were like sorry we don't have any. And then they ask the dude to take a walk with them, like, to come here real quick or something and HE DOES b/c he's drunk. And they beat the shit out of him. So needless to say, we stay a little while longer and then leave in a group of like 10 people, and it's weird b/c it's like the people of the neighborhood know what happened. Every single person that drives by starts shit with us like "ooh whitey in the black neighborhood" type of shit. And we're like what the fuck. These people we're walking with say this is so weird b/c it's never this shady here, but i'm like IT'S FUCKING 17TH AND DIAMOND!!!!!!! It's FUCKING SCARY UP HERE!!!! Anyways, that was my night. Tom definitely saved the night by going into that house. Thank god for that.