Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The Most Absolutely Crazy Thing That Ever Happened To You

The following is the most absolutely crazy thing that ever happened to me.

(I preface that this happened a couple of years ago and I only just thought about it for the first time in forever. I will try to be as accurate as possible but rest assured that the premise and general account of the story are absolutely one hundred percent true.)

I had eaten the Friday night seuda by a yungerman in Ramat Eshkol.
I don't mind the walk back to Geula because I absolutely love walking in Yerushalayim and even more so on Friday night. As I walk through Kikar Shabbos I see the following occur. There is a poilisher chassidish teen (of about 17 years of age) with his back up against the wall. He looks to be really really out of it. Drunk. Maybe possibly high.
A modern guy (sticking out like a sore thumb in this schuna) walks by and aggressively says Good Shabbos!

(Unfortunately there are certain people who due to some sense of insecurity feel the need to aggressively greet chassidim they don't know so that when the pleasantry isn't returned they feel like "ooooh chareidim dont have any ahava yisroel.")

The bochur says nothing back. He clearly was completely unaware that anything had been said to him at all. The modernish bochur exclaims "You Chareidim have no ahavas yisroel!!!!" and starts to make a scene. The chassidish bochur gets very incensed and it looks like things might escalate. I walk up and say "I'm sorry for my friend's manners, he really isn't feeling well. I'm going to take him home."

So I introduce myself and explain to him that he really ought to go home before he gets himself in trouble. He says "No I'll be fine I'm just out for a walk."
So we chat about stuff. Yeshiva. Sports. Other stuff.

Were walking aimlessly down Malchei Yisrael when coming from the opposite direction is... A rowdy obnoxious aggressive and incredibly shikker crowd of misnagdisher bochurim. I can already sense something really bad is about to happen. They start talking trash and saying really terrible things about chassidim in general.
Then they start mocking Rebbeim including The Rebbe. The chassidisher bochur walks up to their group. Their leader says "Oh does that make you mad?" and repeats something nasty. The chassidisher bochur reaches into his shabbos bekisher and pulls out...
A shiny metal pistol and points it in the big guys face "WHAT THE *&^% DID YOU JUST SAY" One of their guys steps forward. I push him backwards. "Are you guys brain dead??? Get the hell out of here!"

They scatter.
"Hey man I highly suggest you put that gun away. Your lucky no one saw yet. I think you need to go home now."

I walked him home and told him he really needs to think some things through.
"You almost just shot someone on Shabbos in public. Your head isn't on straight man."

B"H No one was hurt.

This was the most absolutely crazy thing that happened to/with me.

Feel free to share yall's experiences.

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