Repossessing a Dining Room Set

By kiki

 Repossessing a dining room set: In the mid-1950's a friend of mine, Coy, and I were working part-time at a furniture store, Rainbow's Furniture, that was on Whittier Blvd in East Los Angeles, delivering and yes repossessing furniture, one night the owner, Roger, send Coy and me out to repossess a dining room set. 

We got to the house in Whittier, CA. and we knocked on the door; a man answered the door; I told him we were from Rainbow's Furniture and that we were there to repossess the dining room set, he invited us in and asked us if we could be kind enough to wait while they finished their dinner. I looked into the dining room and saw his wife and two small kids sitting around the table eating; I turned and looked at Coy and said to him, "let's get out of here" we told the man, "finish your dinner, we'll be back some other day." So we got back to the store, and Roger, the owner, asked us, "Well?" "nobody was home Roger; we'll try tomorrow night again," 

After that, every time Roger would send us to repossess the dining set, we would go to a bar and shoot pool and down a few brews; a couple of hours later, we would go back to the store and tell Roger "nobody was home." 

I would like to think that the man paid off the dining room set because he looked like a good decent man that was just going through a rough period.  

“A Date Which will live in Infamy”

                          
                                   “The Greatest Generation”

By kiki
 

Today, December 7, 2013, we give thanks and honor all those who served in WWII

Below are some family members that took part in that great conflict

Ray “Rata” Gonzalez from Pico, CA: (marriage) Ray who served in the Philippines was one of my uncles; who when I was a young teenager would take me to the fights.

Ralph Adame from Pico, CA: Ralph was my mom’s brother. Ralph served in the European Theater. While serving in Italy he married a young girl, Tina. A son, Tony, was born to Ralph and Tina in Italy.

Pete Soto from Pico, CA: (marriage) Pete saw action in the European Theater. He fought in Germany and at the Battle of The Bulge. Thanks to my cousin Becky Ybarra (Pete's daughter) for the info.

Florentino “Melon” Baltazar from Simons, CA: was my dad’s brother, Melon, as he was called served in the European Theater. Melon was awarded the Purple Heart while serving in Europe.

Toddy Juarez from Pico, CA: (marriage) I don’t know anything about Toddy’s service to our country. I was ring bearer on Toddy’s marriage to my aunt Lupe.
                                                    

                                            
                                             Magdaleno Baltazar
                                                    Simons, Ca. 

 Mag was my dad's brother. Mag was awarded the Purple Heart while serving in North Africa. We lost Mag a few days ago, December 2, 2013, at the age of 93.

December 5, 2013

                                                    By kiki

It’s 4:54 in the AM as I start writing my daily writing, this is only my second entry in my daily writings as it’ something new that I started doing yesterday, see how long I keep doing it…So far today not much to write about. I facebooked while Connie got ready for work, she’s gone now….I would sure like to see her hang it up, but she tells me that she rather work than spend all day with me, one day when she told me that I asked her “but I thought you loved me?” she replied with a cracker of a line “I do, but, I don’t like you” damn! how would like to be loved, but not liked?…Well, this is all for now, will be back during the day.

Bullshitted with Rene on Facebook for a bit.

8:58: just got done eating some huevos con chorizo. Yes, even though I can’t cook I can “burn” huevos con chorizo as well as anybody else. I didn’t feel good enough to be out on the streets this morning. Back in bed again..

3:59: It’s been a cold day. Been under the blankets for most of the day. Hope I feel better tomorrow so I can go have menudo.

Decermber 4, 2013

                                                   By kiki

This morning Connie and I woke up real early, okay, Connie did, I woke up at 1:00 AM because she had the TV on. I went to back to sleep and woke up again at 2:30 AM, been awake ever since. After watching the news and reading some of the newspaper with my morning coffee I called Bobby to see if he could chip in some money to help pay Tio Magdaleno funeral, he said yes, I told him to send it to Connie, she will see that it gets to Alice.  I then got up around 7:00 AM and jumped in the shower…After showering I left the house to go get something to eat at the greasy spoon joint that I frequent just about every morning during the week, I do that because from Monday thru Friday I am home by myself and I don’t know how to cook, I can’t even boil water!

I order me an egg sandwich, white only, coffee and water. I continue to read the newspaper as I ate. Things were going fine until I started choking on my sandwich. I knelt over to my right, I couldn’t-breath or swallow my food, I started to sweat, my eyes started to water, my nose started running, seem like everything was on “start” the waitress and her husband came to my aid, but they really didn’t know what to do, hell, neither did I!. First thing that came to my mind was ‘hey, not now, I just renewed my driver’s license yesterday, don’t even have the hard copy yet’ after what seemed like a long time, but in reality it was just minutes I was able to swallow water. I sat there drinking water till I felt good enough to drive home, once I got home I went right back to bed…As I type this my arms feel real heavy, my lips feel a little numb and my chest feel it has a heavy weight on it…I really would like to see my driver’s license hard copy before my calendar runs out, but like the old song says “Que Sera sera”

It’s a good thing the driver’s license come with a photo of the licensee, otherwise Sancho would be driving Connie’s Honda Accord with my license while smoking my stogies to boot!