{"id":245,"date":"2013-03-05T22:08:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2013-03-05T22:29:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:29:43","slug":"capp-street-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation on Capp Street"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Capp Street Houses (San Francisco, California)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One particularly balmy summer’s night of 2012, I couldn’t get to sleep until I had all the windows wide open to allow a minuscule bit of breeze in. Unfortunately, what was a sleep aid earlier in the night came to facilitate my abrupt awakening later on.<\/p>\n

The sounds of a man’s voice shouting, a woman’s voice replying groggily, and a car engine idling rose directly into my ears via the open windows.<\/p>\n

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“Where are you going?” cried the man, over and over. “Where are you going?”<\/p>\n

In my half-asleep state I imagined that I had already deciphered the entire situation: a woman was leaving a party and getting in her car, but she was too drunk so the host was coming out to stop her.<\/p>\n

“I’m just going home,” pleaded the woman. She sounded almost confused, almost intoxicated.<\/p>\n

“Where is that? How are you getting there?” the man demanded.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to the 24th street BART station.” The man seemed content with this answer, and there was a moment of silence.<\/p>\n

He soon became suspicious of her explanation, however. “If you’re going to 24th and Mission, how come you’re on Capp street?”<\/p>\n

The woman didn’t reply.<\/p>\n

“Do you want to get arrested?” shouted the cop, from inside his cruiser, idling on Capp Street.<\/p>\n

“No sir” whimpered the prostitute, from atop the sidewalk, standing on Capp Street.<\/p>\n

“Well start cooperating unless you want to get arrested.”<\/p>\n

“I’m just trying to go home, I only need to get to the 24th street BART station.”<\/p>\n

Another pause.<\/p>\n

“OK, fine.” the cop revved his engine, and tore off into the distance down Capp Street. Then there was a slow but steady sound of footsteps which eventually faded into silence, as did the cruiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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