Why Ask If You Can Help Me When What You Want is to Scare Me?

Saturday April 5 2020 4:40 PM
165 Spencer Street at the corner of Willoughby in Brooklyn NY


A friend translated it...

    Tent of Leah
    [2nd line is Yiddish slang for women] 

I took this photo while out walking our dog, a cocker spaniel named Honey cause she looks like honey. (I went home and Google translated it.)The entrance doors are opaque mirrored.  A week ago, midday the Hassidic woman and children were picking up boxed meals from a folding table.  I took the photo.  It was Shabbat so it seemed like an okay time to be curious, suspicious.A man came out in full Hassid drag (yarmulke, curled sidelocks, under garment with fringe exposed, black vest, pants) and a face mask. He yelled after me.“HELLO. CAN I HELP YOU? DO YOU NEED SOMETHING?”I walked the dog up Spencer Street. “No I’m fine. Thanks."“IS THERE A PROBLEM?”“No. I’m good. Good. Thanks.”Honey stubbornly stopped to obsessively sniff something. “DO YOU NEED SOMETHING?”I yank the dog to be honest.  “No thank you. I’m fine.” I didn’t look back. Maybe he’s operating out of a protective purpose from his perspective that may have embedded into it centuries of trauma and suspicion.He was still a creep. And a bully!
[From my post walk, Google search: Bnos Square of Williamsburg is a School Based Child Care in BROOKLYN NY. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program. Pre-K. Categorized under Synagogues. Our records show it was established in 2006 and incorporated in New York. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $656,171 and employs a staff of approximately 4.]

New Job / Curious but Good Circumstances

November 2019, NYC NY
I started working for the company(a)  that had a majority interest in the company I used to work for (b) and paid for the acquisition of the company I worked at before that (c).

That feels right.