#30 extra minutes from the time i pasted it in the draft silly me

[mosaickiwi]

(sorry for any mistakes, English is not my native language) Hello, I hope you are doing well! Can I ask you for a drabble about the wedding day of an emotional MC who burst into tears because she thought that this day would never come and REDACTED, but without the “lavish ceremony” (lots of guests, wedding suits, huge celebration, etc.) (please forgive me, I hope I was able to express myself clearly, thank you very much and have a nice day!) ฅ'ω'ฅ

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By law I must post wedding fic on Valentine's Day!!!

14 Days With You is an 18+ Yandere Visual Novel. MINORS DNI

~Wedding Day~

You nervously toyed with the ring in your palm, heart racing so hard it hurt. It was still difficult to believe what was happening. This was happening.

It was the same golden ring your partner had worn since you first met him. There wasn't a moment you ever saw them without it as he changed from a shy, stuttering mess in a cardigan to the clingy, dark-haired brat of a man you fell in love with more and more each day. Although the amount of rings they wore had grown.

That fateful day on the playground was something you couldn't even remember, and from what your companion told, you didn't want to. The second try was a far better memory for the both of you anyway. You were the one who proposed that time, catching them by complete surprise with the confidence you never usually had to ask anything of him. But you managed to do it.

And now you were the one who would put a ring on their finger.

“We haven't even started the vows,” [REDACTED] quietly said, pulling you from your thoughts. “Y'can’t be cryin’ just yet, Angel.”

“Am I crying?” The words came out hoarse from your already tightening throat. You hadn't realized. Sure enough, hot tears were streaming down your face as he gently wiped at them with his thumb. 

You tried to calm down, gazing up at him to distract yourself. Their voice had the same familiarly teasing tone it always did, but you could tell from the soft quiver to his lower lip that he was holding back his own tears.

“Yeah, it’s—” He let out a sound somewhere between a laugh and a sob, then hurriedly pushed his dark hair out of his reddening eyes. You wanted to tease him back about it, but you knew if you tried to speak again the tears would come flooding even worse. Another few moments passed as you both tried to collect yourselves.

Surprisingly, it took him a little longer. The tears on your cheeks had long fell and dried while he stood in front of you, eyes shrouded behind their bangs.

But after one more unsteady breath, he seemed to find his way again and look at you. “Are you ready?” they asked, a shakiness to their hands as he reached for the dangling chain around your neck—the necklace he’d given to you months ago once he’d found the courage to say yes to your proposal.

With your anxious nod of approval, he continued. Cool fingertips brushed at your collarbone, finding the silver clasp at the back of your neck and releasing it with a faint clicking of metal. The necklace fell loosely in his hands as he pulled it away. The golden ring easily slid from the chain and he rolled it in his fingers for a long moment, staring at it silently.

They were noticeably calmer this time, with a trembling smile that reached their eyes as he took your left hand and repeated himself. 

“Ready?”

[peaches-writes]

relax—i’m nervous too

description: something short and sweet member: jeongin / i.n. word count: 2.2k genre: fluff, implied best friends to lovers au, first date au, summer au notes: innie went on vlive then i remembered that this has been sitting on my drafts since i posted hwang’s guide to gardening lmao

You wonder if you should hold Jeongin’s hand as you walk down the natural slope of the road, eyes fleeting down to his hands hidden inside his long coat’s pockets. You are, after all, in the middle of quite a packed crowd on this particular Sunday—it’s dangerously easy to lose each other (especially you since you haven’t been exactly the most attentive to the people coming from the opposite direction)—and the sidewalk’s quite steep since it’s, first and foremost, a hill. Also, it’s not like you haven’t done it before; holding onto Jeongin in any way is a long-established habit of yours formed at the first instance he declared you as his best friend years ago.

Holding onto Jeongin in this situation, from a casual standpoint, is the most logical thing to do—except this situation is anything but casual. It’s your first date ever and your first date with Jeongin, your best friend since forever. Holding his hand without permission, along with the other kinds of skinship that you used to initiate for this matter, meant nothing that can easily be misinterpreted before but now it’s suddenly everything. I don’t want to seem too clingy, you frown to yourself absentmindedly, almost tripping on your walk in the process.

Jeongin immediately seems to notice even when he’s walking slightly ahead of you, turning around and placing a concerned hand to your upper arm that does nothing but fluster you more. He doesn’t tell you but he’s noticed this entire time that you seemed really nervous and it’s not helping his own nervousness at all.

“You okay?” He takes a step closer to you in order to avoid bumping into other people as the two of you stop in the middle of the crowd, pure concern in his eyes since it’s the second time you’ve tripped on nothing.

Unconsciously, the two of you both contemplate if the question’s asking if you’re okay from your small accident or if you’re okay despite acting a bit off and distant.

Quickly recovering, you muster up a smile. “I’m fine.” You take a step forward, a gesture that you continue moving. Assured, he follows and the two of you resume walking, his hand immediately sliding down to yours when you try returning them to your own coat pockets.

“I noticed.” He points out sheepishly, as if he’s still unsure if he should bring it up. “Relax—you’re making me nervous too.”

“Sorry.” You squeeze his hand as you steal a glance in his direction, catching the way he briefly returns your look with a small smile. He’s flushed red, nervous too, while trying to look past the people ahead of you for the building you’ve been looking for. “I was just—overthinking about holding your hand. It’s silly, I know.”

But he shakes his head no. “It’s not, I was wondering the same thing, too.” He then touches the nape of his neck with his free hand, chuckling to diffuse the awkwardness.

Somehow, it calms you down knowing that you’re on the same page.

“Oh, hey, we’re here.” Jeongin points to an old building across the street, showcasing endless racks of clothes and trinket shops. There’s no sign or any identification for the building itself, Jeongin just knew from the old cinema next to it that serves as a landmark.

Thank God the road to this particular shopping district is closed on the weekends.

The two of you cross the street along, careful of avoiding the chalk drawings and the people squatted over them on the ground. You make a mental note of this—and the flyer for a music festival later posted on the streetlight that meets you at your destination—for later.

“Try this one!” 

“This one suits you!”

When you’ve completely mastered how to efficiently navigate the maze that is the thrift shop you and Jeongin found yourself in (which only took some 30 minutes actually), the two of you immediately tackled the shops with clothes and shoe racks that caught your eyes. Exchanging clothing suggestions, buying trinkets you don’t actually need but found too adorable not to buy, thinking of what you could do to upgrade certain pieces, trying to haggle for some of the more unique pieces you’ve found (with decent success), and playing with the occasional toys you found on display in your way, you feel more at ease with each other now—as if it’s just another hangout and not your first official date.

“I like this denim so much. I think we look rather cute!” You stand in front of a full mirror next to Jeongin who looks back at you through your reflections with a matching denim jacket you found hanging above your heads while you were looking at jumpsuits. “We can paint these and put the pins we bought on them and—“

You stop yourself from talking immediately when you notice Jeongin trying to stifle a giggle, making you laugh. Instinctively, he covers his face in embarrassment, “What?”

“You’re smiling so much!” You can’t help but smile now too, turning your head to him so that you’re looking directly at him and not through your reflections. “What’s getting you all so giggly?”

He initially shakes his head no, teasing with a smile, but you insist. “...You said ‘we.’”

Your heart melts right there and then. “Well, yeah, they’re matching denims after all?” You tease despite knowing what he meant. “I’m not going to layer these on myself.”

You’ve done a lot of things together, there’s no doubt about that, but now it’s just a little bit different—but for a good reason. It makes you feel strangely excited.

“Okay, yeah, I agree, we do look cute in these. You, especially.” He concludes, a wide grin still on his face, before taking out his phone and putting an arm on your shoulder. “Can we take a pic?”

He ends up snapping a handful photos of the two of you, making a mental note to change his wallpaper later when he gets home.

“Do you think the auntie can give us some kind of couples’ discount.” You joke as you shed off the jacket, feeling more light and free now that you’re doing something with Jeongin.

“You’re doing it again!” 

“What?” 

“’Couple.’” 

You roll your eyes playfully, elbowing him on his side as he takes off his jacket. “You asked me on this date and you’re suddenly nervous about the word ‘couple’?” 

Even though, it’s your turn teasing him now, you did feel the same jittery feeling of calling the two of you a couple. It’s such a long jump from calling each other best friends, especially since you’ve grown accustomed to it for years. 

“No, I like the sound of it.” Jeongin is quick to defend himself when he’s fully recovered from your sudden attack. You laugh because it took him a while. 

Also, you did manage to get a discount after that.

On the way out, you spot a corridor that leads to an adjacent building. Tugging on Jeongin’s arm, you excitedly point it out, specifically the paintings hanging on the walls that peek out from your limited view. “Should we check this out?”

It’s not like the two of you had anything planned specifically for the day besides checking out the thrift shop—you wanted to eat lunch in between, of course (since it’s nearing 2 PM) but somehow you didn’t want to sit down yet.

And Jeongin seems to agree. “Yeah, let’s go.” The two of you then make a turn, heading to the mysterious corridor instead of back outside.

Walking in the other building, it immediately dawns on the two of you that it’s the old cinema Jeongin referred to as the thrift shop’s landmark, remodeled into a more open space with art galleries, snack stands, and other upscale stores, especially him. It suddenly made him extra nervous as the two of you look around while walking over to the art gallery that has caught your eye, displayed at very center where the light from the clear ceiling seems to be focusing its light on.

Jeongin wanted to check this place out for the longest time since he asked his dad where he could take you on a first date. Watching a movie at the old cinema would’ve been your second date—if you agreed to it, of course—but here you are.

“We can eat lunch here afterwards.” Jeongin points to a couple of mall restaurants as the two of you approach the displays. He also notices that there’s still a theater on the highest floor—he’s noticing a lot of things, actually, taking notes for later. “Or maybe check out the jewelry shop over there.”

“Lucky I spotted the corridor, ‘no?” You briefly look at him from examining a painting of a girl and flowers, a proud smile on your face. “It’s really cool—especially if you think about how it used to be a cinema!”

He nods in agreement, matching your slow pace of moving from painting to painting to appreciate the details of the work on display. “You know, my parents used to go here a lot.”

“Really? Is that how you knew about the thrift shop?”

“Yeah...” He then briefly ponders over telling you the rest. “...They also went on their first date here at the cinema.”

Oh.

Oh.

“Was that too much?” He asks, following with a nervous chuckle. Are you supposed to say that on a first date? All the gears in his head turn to panicking internally. “It’s just—“

“No, it’s not—I’m—“ You stutter out, looking at him fully now instead of the paintings. You’re almost done circling around the entire display, anyway. “I’m honored...is that the right word? Like I feel really happy—like I can boast this to Seungmin and the others and go, ‘yup, Jeongin took me to a very special place for our first date last summer’ when school starts again.’—I can say that, right?”

“It’s...it’s not weird or anything?” 

“Why would it be?” You shrug nonchalantly, curious as to where this conversation is going. “This is like your parents’ cool date suggestion or something.”

“If you say it that way, it makes it look like our date’s very unoriginal.” He pouts in frustration, making you giggle.

Shaking your head, you counter, “No, it doesn’t because even when the place is the same, it’s still ours in a way—like, did Mr. and Mrs. Yang buy matching denim jackets and questionable statement pins at the thrift shop? Or checked out this amazing installation?”

“No, definitely not.” You manage to return a smile on his face. “In fact, they didn’t go on a Sunday so they couldn’t enjoy the night music festival.”

“You caught that too?” His eyes widen. 

“Do you want to go later?” 

“If we can draw on the road too with chalk!”

It fully sinks on Jeongin that this is, in fact, your very first date and, hopefully, the first of many. He suddenly feels excited to tell his parents later all the things they missed out on this shopping district when he gets home later. “Okay, deal. Let’s eat first, though, I’m starving!”

“Chicken?” 

“Chicken, yes please.”

You leave the cinema-turned-mall late since you both decided on drinking iced coffee and eating fries after your meal. Returning to the outside world somewhere around 5 PM, hands now naturally clasped together, you buy chalk on a nearby stationery store then cross the street, finding a spot after 10 minutes amidst the long stretch of already painted road.

It’s almost the end of the day so most people are on the other lane, waiting for the night music festival under tents set up by the organizers. Still, that didn’t stop the two of you from doodling along with some children, couples, and friends.

“What are you doing?” You ask after a while, peering over Jeongin’s shoulder curiously.

“I’m drawing a fox and a rabbit.” He points out, the mismatched colors he’s used used making you laugh. “Guess who’s who.”

“We have red and white colors here—where have you ever seen a pink fox and a pink rabbit?” You chuckle, glancing back at your own own work of making a bouquet of flowers.

“Just this morning when you were blushing so hard about holding my hand—” He teases cheekily, earning him a slap on the arm. “—Hey, I mean, I was too!”

“You talk like you weren’t so giggly about me referring to ourselves as a couple.” You’re the one pouting this time, but lightheartedly. “I’m erasing your card on this bouquet.”

“You wouldn’t!” 

“Yes, I can!”

The playful banter eventually makes you laugh that you almost stumbled and accidentally sat down on the road before Jeongin steadied you with his dust-free hand on your arm. When you’ve recovered, you go back to working on your chalk drawings.

“Hold on, let me take a photo.” You whip out your phone once the two of you are done, standing over your drawings and giggling all the way. Jeongin drew, as mentioned, a fox and a rabbit walking around buildings and under ‘Jeongin and Y/N were here’ in big letters. You, on the other hand, drew a bouquet with a message and two people in matching denim jackets. “This is so cute.”

While you take photos, Jeongin decides on reading aloud the note you’ve written along with the bouquet. “‘Jeongin and Y/N’s first date, summer ‘20. Let’s make more memories like this together!’” He then turns to you, now done taking photos. “We’re going on a second date?”

“Aren’t we?” You look up at him despite the feeling of heat rising from your neck. “Today was fun—not disastrous like they say about first dates, we can accidentally do those later.”

You really are looking forward to a second date now—and a third, fourth, fifth...

Meanwhile, it feels like a weight is lifted of Jeongin’s chest and his first instinct is to pull you into a hug. “I’m glad.” He rests his chin on your crown. “Let’s go on that second date soon.”

“And go back here in the future, I like it here.” You hug him back, relieved that you’re still, even at the end of the day, on the same page. “Maybe they do have really good movies at the old cinema, we didn’t check.”

Jeongin only chuckles at this now. “Sounds like a promising future date.” 

Later that night, the two of you enjoy lively music at the night music festival, jumping around, dancing, and singing to the songs both familiar and unfamiliar.

[working-on-becoming-a-better-me]

Day 52– Sep. 2, 2020 (!!!)

bolding big things because today was a good day for growth!

+- up before 7:00am alarm but laid in bed on instagram until past the alarm (like 7:05, not really a big deal)

+ made the bed and got ready for the day!

+ ate leftover fried rice w/ a freshly fried egg (that sounds gross) put on top!  yum!

+ walked with a friend to school!

+ theater class first– didn’t do much besides finalize our piece and get to know my partner/friend better (I took the rice purity test again!  98, same as the last time I took it!  he told me he got... I forget, but a number in the 20s... woah)

+ marine bio was spent doing a lab and while it was frustrating, I had fun + got better at making graphs and figuring out how the frick to change axes!

+- lunch was good, but I wasn’t particularly hungry yet finished all my food...

+ study hall I laid my head down for a solid minute then took psych notes for a quiz the next day   + okay, I am so proud of this.  right now, I have an A+ in the class and it’s so easy being content.  but, I wanted to keep doing well and also learn, study, + take notes in advance so I don’t struggle during finals– thinking ahead!!! + also spent it reading a bit more of my book + listening (half watching) motivational videos.  I’m literally going to post her channel and the two videos I watched because I really liked them

+++ dude in math I got the A+ level question wrong but (as I said in the post for day 51, I missed three points for not simplifying (one point for three times) and I also missed some for simplifying wrong.  the entire class was a battle for me because I was one point off from an A.  I had to try really hard to be proud of myself.  I took a practice quiz over the weekend which helped immensely and studied for it.  I knew the content, just made silly errors.  I got the most challenging questions right and answered everything– leaving nothing blank.  this is a quiz, not a test.  I know my stuff. it sounds like bragging, but stop.  catch yourself.  you’re giving yourself the recognition you deserve.  you don’t appreciate yourself enough. I’m proud of myself for studying, already getting a better start in math than last year, and, most of all, for recognizing that I should be proud of myself.

this is so big for me.  I am so proud of myself

+ went to an afterschool club!  creative writing!  I liked it more than I thought I would (I’ve been to writing clubs before and typically the people who go there and I don’t mix... we don’t have the same sense of humor, it’s awkward... but today was good!) + I plan on taking a leadership role in this club– I am such a firm believer in not just doing things because they look good for college.  yes, I need more leadership positions, but if someones more qualified and passionate than i am, if someone actually cares and can help the club (and I don’t– if I’m just wanting it for college), I’m not running.  But I love writing!  the only thing I’d been hesitant on was the fact that I might not like the people or the environment– but I did!!!

+ went home and attended an interest meeting for our school’s english honor society!

+ went down and made dinner (read: microwaved stuff) and ate while on another club call– a funny mishap occurred when I accidentally texted the wrong person– twice (two different people...)

++ okay so in study hall, I’d started taking psych notes from a slideshow (I’d taken notes off the same slides in class, but I wanted to do them again) and at home I continued them.  it was getting later than I preferred because I still needed to shower and I wanted to sleep early but I thought about the video I watched (it didn’t win me over, but it played a big part in my reasoning!) and decided to just finish the notes.  I did juts highlight some of the old notes I’d taken in class to review them but I went through the 72 slide slideshow and took completed my notes.  and it only took (less than!) 30 minutes extra.  I was done by 8:27!

* texted friends about the new school schedule, wasted some time

+ proofread a friend’s draft for her English class!  I love helping others with editing because I love writing (don’t ever ask for ideas from me; they’re like my children.  I don’t really give them out (w/o credit but that can’t be traced in a school setting (on my tumblr blog, sure!))

+ brushed my teeth and all that jazz

+ showered! and finished getting ready for bed

+ went down (I’m still in my mom’s room (she seems resistant when I say I might go sleep in my own room again)) and decided I’d write the day’s stuff down because it was a long and good one.  of course, thinking about psych made me upset and of course math was a struggle because I was so close, but it was also such a HUGE day for growth.  I am happy for myself.  I love myself

+ finished this post before 10:25 and went to bed shortly after!

[kumkaniudaku]

Daddy Duty

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A/N: You know I rarely start a story without a note to y’all. Daddy Duty was originally a short drabble that wanted to make into a slightly longer fic. The first draft was 4,000 plus words. I wasn’t even halfway done. So, it’ll be split into a series because you know I love a good series. Here’s part one. I figured, what better way to celebrate my birthday than with a little fluff. The rest of the series should be out tomorrow. Good night and thank you to everyone that sent me birthday wishes. All of you are amazing. And even if you didn’t, you’re still amazing. I’ll shut up now. 

Word Count: 2,150

Warnings: Cursing. 

Your body bounced up and down, one breast free from your button up and bra, as you walked around your bedroom looking for your shoes. The second go at motherhood taught you that a child feeding from your breast didn’t stop you from completing daily activities. In five months, you’d learned to cook, clean and complete simple hygiene tasks with your son attached to you.

“Slow down, Noah,” you giggled at your baby boy. “Mommy has plenty to share.”

“Good, ‘cause I got next.” Chadwick’s long arms wrapped around your waist to pull you against his chest. His chin dropped to rest in the space between your shoulder and neck to observe his son.

“You hear Daddy being silly,” you cooed, catching a glimpse of a smirk from Noah. “Daddy’s a baby, too.”

“I’m not being silly; I'm serious. He’s gotta learn to share one day.”

“The milk is for him,” you scoffed, accepting his kiss on your cheek before he moved to sit on his side of the bed.

“I don’t want the milk. I want the titty. I miss it.”

“You just had one in your mouth last night before you went to bed.”

“Is this not a whole new day,” his smile grew at the memory of burying his face in your chest as much as you would let him the night before. You rolled your eyes in response.

“Alright, AJ, that’s enough. You’re just eating because it’s there, not because you’re still hungry.”

Noah’s small whine was nearly enough to change your mind and allow him to feed for as long as he wanted but, you remained strong. Chadwick offered his assistance by motioning you over and grabbing his son from your arms.

“Mama’s gotta go, son. She’s leaving us to fend for ourselves.”

“Don’t tell him that,” you exclaimed while hitting him in the back of the head with a pillow. “I’m only gonna be away for the day, and I already feel bad about it.”

Despite your reluctance and initial decline, you agreed to help Yvonne with an event she was planning. After leaving your position with the Sparks to focus on your family, the opportunities to work on your terms came rushing in. The Lakers and Clippers were still in negotiations with your representatives to bring you in as a special consultant, and Yvonne frequently used you for your clerical skills when you had a free moment. You assumed being a stay at home mom would be enough to fulfill you but, you still felt the tug to work outside of your home.

“Aww come here, baby,” Chadwick shifted Noah to one arm to make room on his lap for you. With a pout, you slid into the open space and rested your head on his bare shoulder. His kisses to you hair and forehead worked double time to cure your worry and guilt. “You don’t need to feel bad. You’ve been taking care of two kids non-stop for five months. It’s okay for you to go out and work for a day.”

“Yeah but, my babies. Who’s gonna take care of my babies?” You knew full well what you were doing. Looking up at Chadwick’s frown made you giggle in satisfaction.

“Haha, my wife is so funny. Get off me,” he joked, helping you stand to your feet. “I’m on Daddy Duty today so, you know we gon’ be alright. Nothing but candy and cartoons all day. Right, CoCo Jr.?”

Noah smiled a gummy response to his father’s playfulness, not completely understanding what was happening around him. His golden brown skin, just a few shades lighter than his father’s, matched your’s to a “T.” His brown eyes and button nose looked copied and pasted from your face to his and resized to fit a baby’s proportions. You prayed for a baby that resembled you in some way, and God blessed you with a twin of your own. But, only in physical appearance. Noah’s laugh was boisterous like his father’s, and their facial expressions often mirrored each other’s. While you had your personality twin in Micah, Noah was Chadwick through and through.

“So that means you’ll be calling me to complain by 12:30?”

“You’re acting like you won’t be calling to check in by then anyway.”

“Oh no, sir,” you hands extended retrieve Noah as you walked through the threshold of the bedroom into the hallway. “I won’t be calling. You, on the other hand, have a monster that needs to be awake.”

Chadwick followed your head motions to Micah’s room and groaned. He’d forgotten about how his precious little girl could act in the morning. Usually, he’d let her sleep in on the weekends, but she had a ballet class that she needed to get ready for. Fixing his facial expression, he turned his head to you and flashed his bedroom eyes.

“Can you do it, baby? You’re so beautiful and loving. Did I mention smart? And your cooking-”

“Nuh uh, you’re on Daddy Duty right? Task number one is showing me you can handle the monster you created. Move along. She’s gotta be dressed before I leave.”

“And when do you leave?”

“Ummm,” you took a look at the Piaget watch on your wrist to judge the time. “In about...thirty minutes.”

“Thirty minutes!? It’s gon’ take ten to get her awake!”

“Then you better hurry. This is test number one.”

You giggles as Chadwick turned on his heels to start the dreaded trek to his twin’s room. Micah was a well-documented morning grump. It was a daily battle to get her up and ready for school, one that you had perfected, but not without your share of mishaps. If Chadwick was going to succeed, he would need to shed his sweet parent persona and put his foot down.

“You wanna see Daddy try and wake up your big sissy? You think he can do it,” You asked Noah, receiving a spitty gurgle in response. “That’s what I said. No chance.”

Stepping closer to the door, you could hear the battle getting off to a shaky start. Chadwick had managed to pull Micah into his lap, but her body stretched across his arms like a wet towel as he tried to get her to respond to his pleas for her to wake up.

“C’mon, Princess. Daddy really needs to get you dressed before Mommy leaves so she can make you breakfast. You want french toast, don’t you?”

“Nuh uh,” she huffed, clamping her eyes shut and crossing her arms.

“Micah, don’t do that. I promise it won’t even take that long. Your hair is already pretty, and you took a bath before bed last night. All you have to is put on your outfit, brush your teeth and wash your face.”

“I don’t wanna.”

“Micah Noelle,” your voice started both father and daughter as you stepped further into the room. Micah’s head popped up immediately, knowing the tone you were using only led to two possible destinations: getting dressed or getting spanked. “Get up and get dressed, now. We will not tell you again.”

The lanky child quickly shimmied from her father’s lap to shuffle out of the room and into the bathroom down the hallway. You gave Chadwick an amused look and shook your head.

“Tip number one: don’t give her an option. You can’t always be the nice guy, baby. She’s stubborn.”

“Sound like someone else I know.”

“Yeah, but you’re getting better. Don’t be so hard on yourself.”

He couldn’t help but smile at the way you flipped his insult back to him. While he chaperoned Micah’s morning routine, you made use of your extra time to finish breakfast for the house. With Noah in the baby carrier against your chest, you maneuvered around the kitchen preparing french toast and fruit for everyone with teeth. Quick feet rushing down the stairs did little to prepare you for the brown body speeding into the kitchen and crashing against your legs.

“I see my diva is finally dressed. Do you like your new leotard?” Your hands ran over Micah’s “lemonade” braids, making a mental note to tell her Chadwick to take them out before you got back home.

“Yes, ma’am. Thank you,” she half-heartedly replied, more focused on playing with her brother’s fingers and getting his attention for a smile.

“Can I get some of Mama, too?” Before you knew it, all three of your babies were attached to you and soaking up their last few moments of your warmth. Chadwick ran his hand over Noah’s head and sighed. “We’re gonna miss you, baby. I hope you know that. We love Mama, right kids?”

“Yeah,” Micah exclaimed, setting off a nonsensical barrage of babbles from Noah. Your laughter turned into a sad smile as you looked at your family. Was leaving a good idea?

“I know. It’s only for a day, and I’ll miss yall, too. Don’t forget about me.”

“How could we forget about the lady that gives the best kisses and hugs in the whole wide world,” Chadwick spoke into the crook of your neck before kissing you.

“And paints the best nails.”

“I thought you said I paint the best nails, Twin?”

“I didn’t want to hurt your feelings, daddy.”

Your family moment was interrupted by the beep of your alarm alerting you to the moment you weren’t looking forward to. “Well, it’s time for me to go. If only I had three people to walk me to my car. A big strong man, a cute little girl, and chunk baby preferably.”

“Ooh, I’m a cute little girl! And AJ is a chunky baby.”

“Then who’s the big strong man,” you inquired, looking between her and a smiling Chadwick.

“I dunno, but daddy is here. He can come, too!”

“Woooooow. Okay, I see how it is around here.”

The light banter continued to the driveway, temporarily making you forget that you would have to leave for a full twenty-four hours. When you reached the end of the paved path, you and Chadwick made the switch off, trading Noah for your overnight bag and crossbody purse.

“See you later, Boop,” you cooed, kissing her nose and smoothing her hair. “See you later my little Pookie,” Noah giggled at your silly faces and raspberries against his cheeks. “And my big Pookie,” Chadwick was the last to receive affection, relishing the opportunity to kiss you like he would never see you again. His free arm snaked around your waist, pulling your body into his to get you as close as possible. The whispered ‘yuck’ in the background made both of you giggle as you pulled away.

“Be safe, girl. Come back home to me. To us.”

“I will. I promise.”

He pressed another kiss onto your forehead before opening your car door. “Alright kids, blow Mommy kisses. Tell her bye.”

“See you tomorrow, babies. Aaron, Noah has enough milk to last until I get home. Try giving him some of the baby food I made. They’re in glass jars in the fridge. Take down Micah’s braids and put her hair in a bonnet. Make sure-“

“We got it, we got it,” Chadwick assured. “Dad can handle a day by himself. Call me when you get settled.”

The realization came crashing down on you that an entire 24 hours without a loving hug or kiss from your three favorite people, turning the corners of your lips downward. “I love you. I’ll miss you.”

“We miss you already, baby,” closing your door, Chadwick poked his head through the window for one last kiss. “I love you.”

“I love you. Kiss the kids for two times for me tonight.”

Nodding in agreement, he stepped back to allow you to back out of the driveway. Solemn silence sat over the three remaining members of the Boseman clan as they thought of what life would be without you for the remainder of the day.

“Well, kids, what are we gonna do without Mommy today?” A shrug from Micah and a short grunt from Noah didn’t provide many answers. When Chadwick opened his mouth to speak, a foul aroma threatened to trigger his gag reflexes. “Oh, my-what is that?”

With her thumb and index finger pinching her nose, Micah offered an answer. “I think it’s AJ. He’s stinky!”

“Boy, what is your mama feeding you? You smell like a grown man. Is it on your legs, too? You couldn’t give me two hours of calm before you shi-pooped all over the place?”

“Did you say a bad word, Daddy? I think you did.”

“Go inside, Princess. Find your ballet shoes and finish your breakfast,” he quickly responded, turning Micah’s body toward the house. Following his daughter, his took a peek at the soiled area at the bottom of Noah’s onesie. “This is ridiculous, AJ. How you get it on your back!?”

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[csykora]

Much love in my heart for Kuzy, obviously, but do you have an opinion about why someone who is so good at stick handling seems to take so many careless stick-related penalties (slashing, hooking, tripping, etc.)? I read in the Washington Post today that Tom Wilson was the only Cap with more penalties than Kuzy this season :(. Obviously I don't expect you to know everything that goes on in his head; I'm just wondering if you have a guess as to why this seems to happen so often.

In the immortal words of McKeen’s 2010 Draft Guide,

“he is ornery and does not hesitate to stick the opposition as he plays with sandpaper and grit.”

If it’s not immediately clear, they thought that was a great thing. Because the value of penalties in hockey is some complex and loaded silliness.

Thanks for pointing this out, it was interesting to look into. I’m going to look at the situation first, and then come back around to why I think it is this way.

My answer is also going to be entirely positive, so anyone who is suddenly horrified for tonight: be calm.

Kuznetsov came in third in penalty minutes for the regular season, behind Tom Wilson and Brooks Orpik. Kuz is also third in the playoffs at 12, led by Wilson (16) and Oshie (17) as of Game 2.

If we look at their running totals, he’s still behind Orpik (who has also added 4). So I don’t know where the idea of him being second comes from. (What’s up, Washington Post?)

Because of how much more attention I think Kuznetsov draws in the playoffs and also because I think using running totals is rather Improper, I’m going to look at the regular season and the playoffs separately, and use these numbers.

No one is taking Tom’s bloody crown here. But what else does 48 mean in context?

Well, it’s barely more than Bäckström, and nobody is talking about careless can’t-control-himself Nick.

I mean that completely gently, just that we should all remember to put a single statistic in context and examine our eye tests—why is it that Kuznetsov’s mistakes catch our eye? Is it about the type of plays and penalties? Our expectations for him, or our expectations for other guys? Why do we notice them sometimes and not other times?

He’s held steady between mid 20s-mid 40s in PIMs his entire career. He was consistent at 30-40 PIMs with Traktor (the KHL plays 60 game seasons), dropping to 24 his first full season with Washington and then stabilizing at 30-40s again. It’s slowly risen over the years with Washington, but so has his time on ice (and the amount of attention he gets, which I’ll come back to.) While 48 is his career high, it’s only one penalty more than he took last season, and it isn’t wildly outside his normal range. So his game hasn’t changed.

It’s the rest of the team.

Last season Kuznetsov took 46 penalty minutes but came in 7th on the team. Wilson took 133, and after him Orlov, Ovechkin, Williams, Winnik, and Orpik fell in with 51-48. He was 8th the year before that.

You know who I blame for Kuznetsov coming in 3��ᵈ this year?

Tom Wilson.

Specifically, Top Line Tom.

(Also a bunch of trades.)

I was looking at other players to put Kuznetsov in context, and saw something I didn’t think I would. We’re going to take an apparent detour because we need to check this out.

Ovechkin has been a PIM leader his entire career. For the last few years he’s held steady in the 50s, always taking a spot ahead of Kuznetsov. This year Ovi dropped to 32. That’s from 25 individual penalties to 16 penalties, none of them majors.

His hits are down from 216 to 139. That’s from 2.6 hits per game to 1.7 hits per game. He managed to cram in 120 during the shortened lockout season. 172 as a rookie. He’s a solid 200+ hitter, and he’s down to 139?

I’ve thought this watching games all season, but I’m a grump and I was sure the statistics wouldn’t back my eye-test up, actually. But here it is, so here’s what I think. Ovi is focused on playing high-flying technical hockey now that he has a right wing who can clear space for him and his center.

Ovechkin wanted to make a point of coming back faster this year, so he would be playing a little more like this regardless, but he would be fighting for it. He’s spent the last few years trying to shove the other team off him and his center and use that space at the same time. Wilson is making it possible for him to focus.

I don’t mean that Wilson is “taking the penalties Ovi otherwise would be.” I think Wilson’s penalties are still almost entirely a hangover. I mean that in his dreams, Ovechkin wants a right wing who’s both stunningly fast, to counterbalance Ovi and his center as they set up, and strong enough to force the other team to pay attention to him instead of them. (Ovi also likes it when they punch people, but no one ever said Ovechkin has great taste in men.)

That’s pretty hard to find (sorry, can you all hear me grinding my teeth?), but under the habits, Wilson is a bizarre rare mix of talents, and he’s not only started to use them for Ovi and Kuznetsov, I think he’s allowing Ovi to meaningfully change his own game.

So Ovi’s making fewer hits and taking fewer penalties.

And they’ve traded Williams, Winnik, Chimera, and the ~50 PIM guys.

They also dropped the collective weight of the D-core on Orlov’s fabulous shoulders, and he took a deep breath, looked the problem right in the eye, and committed. He’s gone from 19 to 23 minutes of ice time a night, but dropped from 51 to 22 penalty minutes. We wanna talk about penalty minutes as an evaluation of play, lord have mercy, let’s talk more about Orlov’s.  

So that all explains to me how Kuznetsov took just one more penalty this year than last year, but suddenly he looks worse, in comparison to teammates who are taking fewer penalties.  

I’m still pretty sure “taking 48 penalty minutes” wasn’t part of Kuznetsov’s thesis on penalty killing.

It’s a really average penalty time compared to other players, but he isn’t. So would I like him to be in the box less? Yes. (Nicky too.)

Would I like him to slash less? The first answer is yes because I don’t like slashing much—but before that I want to know what’s leading to him doing it, and I want that to happen less.

People always do things for reasons. I don’t know what all their reasons are, and if I did I might not agree that that was a great reason to do that, but I kind of think it’s wrong to say that someone ‘just does’ things, that they’re unreasonable, inexplicable, “stupid and dumb” or “crazy,” that their thoughts are so unworthy of understanding that they’re not even real. I don’t know what he’s thinking, I might not like it, but I’m going to respect that he’s thinking something.

This is what we’re gonna call my working theory of his mind.

So here’s where I start to look at Kuznetsov’s role.

This is the year Kuznetsov is an NHL star, right? He’s not only on the top line, other teams’ commentators are calling it the Kuznetsov line about as often as the Ovechkin line now. Other teams’ fans not only know who he is, they know their team will have to know to plan around him.

I think in regular season games in the past, teams have been able to get away, or thought they would be able to get away, with just shutting down the shooters he always passed to. Now it’s impossible to predict whether he’ll pass or shoot, and his good passes are going to Ovechkin, who is great at catching passes.

He’s also always lit up in the playoffs. (Every year this is when the media start saying, “Oh! This guy might be a star!”) The format works for him: I think he likes getting so much time to test things out and pick another team apart, especially in overtime. The more time he has, the more chances add up. So you have to, have to, have to plan your playoff series around shutting him down.

The obvious way to shut a possession guy down is with physical play, but Kuznetsov makes that difficult. He is fast, and more than that he’s quick—he can react and reach top speed in very little space or time—and he’s very, very mobile. Most opponents never get close to him.

If you’re tied with John Carlson, you don’t smash much. (Contrast this with the heavy hitters, Oshie, Orlov, Ovechkin, Smith-Pelly, Orpik, Wilson—between 124 and 250 hits.)

Kuznetsov was hit 65 times this season.

(I’m not sure if the good folks at morehockeystats were including the 3 times Wilson’s destroyed him.)

For comparison at the same position, Bäckström has taken 103 hits and Eller was hit 156 times this season. I expected Kuznetsov’s hit count to be lower, but 65 is pretty wild.

What this suggests to me is

he’s effective as heck at avoiding hits.

65 is only a couple times more than people laid hits on Ovechkin, and people do not want to hit Ovechkin. It’s like hitting an opossum with your car instead of hitting a moose—I’m not advocating either, but one would fuck up the possum, and the other will wreck you.

But Kuznetsov was also awarded 23 penalties against the other team. Bäckström only drew 18. What are those penalties for, if he’s not getting hit so much?

Well, you can’t hope to catch him, so what do you do?

You use your handy hooking stick.

I tried to take these all last game. It wasn’t scientific, but it was a lot of photos. You can see from his posture Cirelli knows he won’t be able to pass or keep up with Kuznetsov, so he’s throwing himself forward off his feet to get a little closer. He has enough control to make try to make that a strict stick check, but how easy would it be for someone to hook or slash instead?

And the same goes the other way. Kuznetsov doesn’t want to let opponents close to him, so if he wants to reach them, he’s reaching out with his stick.

(I wrote a whole extra essay on his particular style of stickhandling in here, but then realized it wasn’t germane and all the quotes I found for evidence were bad porn dialogue.)

In his mind, I think he does stuff

to stop people tripping and slashing him

because he can

Here’s why I don’t like getting to the end of the season and lumping all penalties into a big bad pile.

Right now I can still remember when Letang slashed Kuznetsov twice in Game 2, injuring his hand, and Kuznetsov slashed back and took a penalty.

I had no problem in the world with that*. If I were any of his teammates or his coach, I would be screaming at him from the bench to get that guy off him one way or another. The ideal course of action is for Kuz to not respond risking a penalty and for Letang to not slash him a third time. But Letang is not going to not slash him again, and Kuznetsov’s hands are worth a heck of a lot more than 2 minutes, at least in most game situations. If we’re thinking strategically, yeah, we can eat that penalty.

He also takes penalties for doing some wild stuff. I’ve mislead a little, because Kuznetsov loves to get up close—on his terms. He can and will, as Joe B. puts it, “skate between their legs.” (I miss Joe B.) When he’s chasing an opponent he’ll rush up from behind and then instead of laying a hit he’ll keep skating with them, placing his feet in between theirs. This is not something most people do, because it is a terrible idea, but he thinks he can do it, so he does.

Often he really does skate or stickhandle around them with tripping them. But when he doesn’t get it quite right, it looks blatantly bad, because no one else would think they can get under someone else’s feet and somehow not trip them.

“What do you mean, I tripped him?”

“You stuck your foot between his feet, and then he fell down.”

“Well, he’s probably a terrible skater, no?”

By the end of the season, I don’t know how many penalties he took for slashing in (in his mind) self-defense, and how many times he stuck his stick or his foot between somebody else’s skates because he could (or thought he could), and how many times because he was annoyed and wanted to smack someone. I know there’s some of each in the mix.

I don’t like all of them. I’m also not worked about them as a whole, and I’d encourage anyone who is to look past the scary #3 in the rankings to the context. (And I realize I probably just said that to a Washington Post sports writer somewhere. Uh.)

Numbers and figures from NHL.com, Corsica, Fox Sports, Elite Prospects, and MoreHockeyStats.

*this is a lie, I was displeased with them both, because I don’t want anyone slashing anyone.

Note: I don’t feel like reading any “ugh, of course Orpik would be in there!” on this post today. I agree it’s part of the emergency math that needs to be done about his place on the team, but if you didn’t already know his numbers, please save it.

[watach-blog]

20 Years of The World Football Phone-In

Last week, I travelled to the BBC’s media city studios for the recording of the 20th anniversary of 5Live’s classic The World Football Phone-In. It was a genuine privilege to speak to Tim Vickery, Dotun Adebayo, Paul Sarahs and fans who travelled to be there.

I wrote a piece that was published by Planet Football - Read it here. Here was my original, longer, draft that I whittled down to something more digestible:

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In the middle of the night, a production team at the BBC’s Salford studios are hard at work. They’re broadcasting BBC Radio 5Live’s ‘Up All Night’, a nightly discussion programme that covers current affairs with regular news and sport bulletins. Once a week, at around 02:00 every Saturday, The Real Sounds Of Africa’s cult Italia ’90 anthem ‘Soccer Fan’ plays out, signalling two hours of eclectic football chat - ‘The World Football Phone-In’.

This weekend it celebrated 20 years on the airwaves, and in that time it’s built up a dedicated following from around the world. Growing from a 5 minute quick round-up from Tim Vickery in South America, it has since grown into a two-hour weekly extravaganza with other correspondents from elsewhere.

Alternating between recording studios in Salford and London, nightowl presenter Dotun Adebayo will be one hour into the ‘Up All Night’ slot that runs from 01:00 until 05:00.

Each week, he’s joined on the line by South American football expert Tim Vickery. Sat in the front room of his family home in Rio De Janeiro, “domestic chaos” going on around him at around midnight local time. He makes sure that the dog is suitably occupied, as far away from the microphone as possible. Remarkably, he hasn’t missed a recording in the entire twenty year run.

A rotating cast of other regional experts join the conversation each week. Jon Arnold, based in Fort Worth, Texas, covers football in North and Central America. Mark Gleeson in Cape Town covers African football. John Duerden calls in from Seoul talking Asia. Mina Rzouki and Paul Sarahs talk Europe.

Around the world, there are thousands tuning in. In New Delhi, Anand Mann will be listening. There, it’s 06:00 or 07:00 in the morning (depending on the time of year). Almost without fail, this is how he begins his Saturday.

A Bayern Munich fan and avid South American football enthusiast, Anand has listened to the programme since 2004. He’s become a regular caller - you’ll find him asking for the lowdown on the rivalry between Gremio and Internacional, for example. Inspired to such an extent by the World Football Phone-In, he travelled across South America a few years ago, attending live matches along the way. “It is hard to follow football in Argentina from India as the matches are usually from 03:00 to 07:00AM.” he tells me. “The World Football Phone-In helps in keeping track.”

He is not the only one whose path has been impacted by the World Football Phone-In; Joseph Sexton, who lives in Spain and writes for Marca and The Sportsman, says “It's been an absolutely massive influence.

“I already had applied to do Spanish as a joint honours for my degree. When I got to second year, I jumped at the chance to add Portuguese. Inspired by South America as Tim told it, in the way that few can match for storytelling, but also by Andy Brassell.”

Now, Andy Brassell, World Football Phone-In alumnus, often calls him to speak about Spanish football for his European Football Show on Talksport.

Others who write about the game feel the same, all over the world. Adam Brandon, who lives in Arica, Chile and Simon Edwards in Medellin, Colombia discuss South American football for the World Football Index’s podcast series, and both have listened for many years. Brandon told me what he thought makes it stand out: “I think the fact WFPI looks at football with a social conscious is the key to its success”

“Often you hear people say they like the show even if they don't have a keen interest in football. I think the writing and podcasts I do also try and give some social context too so in that sense it has probably influenced me.”

Paul Sarahs, who has worked as the European correspondent for the past five years, told me what a privilege it is to appear. “I’ll never get a gig that I’m proud of, or more happy to be a part of than The World Football Phone-In. It’s an institution - to be part of it is sensational”.

For a certain type of football obsessive, The World Football Phone-In is the gold standard.

To celebrate 20 years of the programme, Friday night featured a special bumper four hour edition. The timing could hardly have been better, with the draw for next summer’s World Cup having just taken place, the Copa Libertadores concluding with a Gremio triumph, and the European leagues ramping up to their most hectic period of the season. There’s plenty to talk about, and plenty of reminiscing to be done, too.

Fans were invited to sit in on the recording in Salford, and about 30 long-time listeners travelled from all around the UK to be there. One dedicated fan, Henrik, even flew in from Copenhagen. “I enjoy the community feel of it as much as I enjoy the content. You switch it on and it’s like walking into a family room”, he tells me.

Nothing demonstrates that sense of inclusivity than the scene of 30 footballing obsessives, wearing shirts from around the world - Iran, Argentina, Romania feature - all congregating to do an all-nighter and contribute to four solid hours of global football discussion. One fan, Simon, a baker from Cornwall, couldn’t make it but sends up fifty pasties for the party.

Tim Vickery is there in person, having flown in from Rio earlier that day. Paul Sarahs is there too, and global correspondents Jon Arnold, Mark Gleeson and John Duerden are all available via Skype. Between them, the 32 teams going to the World Cup from FIFA’s six confederations are covered.

Dotun Adebayo, wearing a Nigeria jersey and well into the spirit of the occasion, ably manages to tie everything together, but not without a few extra surprises. Former contributors Mani Djazmi (Asia) and Sean Wheelock (North America) have returned on the line for one night only, and there’s a special congratulations message from Andy Brassell, who can’t go without being reminded of one of the phone-in’s most hilariously confrontational callers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqVae1t9on8

There’s a slightly anarchic feeling to the evening, as the live audience are invited to contribute as much as they feel, alongside the many experts on hand. It’s this kind of looseness that is the programme’s biggest strength - Adebayo will take any thread and just run with it. There’s a focus on contemporary issues but without a strict agenda, the conversation has room to breathe and go unexpected places.

The content is often a refreshing antidote to so much of the dominant dialogue around football. Given it’s name, it’s only natural that the The World Football Phone-In skirts away from the most glamorous European leagues and players, but it also shows a contempt for any notions of football starting in 1992 and “the Premier League era”. Tim Vickery in particular has an unrivalled knack for storytelling, and every week features excellent anecdotes.

It’s a programme that celebrates the vibrancy of the global game, at a time when it’s easy to be jaded. The corruption scandals of FIFA, the often underwhelming state of international summer tournaments, and the monopolisation of the world’s best players at an elite few oil rich clubs.

Adebayo, Vickery and company all recognise that ultimately football is still fun. That the prestige of the World Cup still tops anything else, in spite of the marketing cache of club football and the sensationalism of the transfer market and Sky Sports News. That there is colour and passion still to be found in far-flung corners of the globe.

There’s a rapport between the contributors, who never take themselves or the sport too seriously. Adebayo has a real skill for steering the show from between being outrageously silly to insightful and analytical. After the deaths of Johan Cruyff and Carlos Alberto, the contributors celebrated their lives and contributions to football in a fitting manner.

There is a poignant part of the anniversary evening, as two deserved holders of the programme’s hallowed “Brazilian shirt names”, only given to exceptional and regular callers, are invited to the BBC’s studios in London and join every via video link. Cleo, known as  The Book, and Andrew, also known as The Gent, have been calling for years and part of The World Football Phone-In’s fabric. They’ve both experienced personal hardship over the last year, and the tribute that is paid to their contributions was both moving and heartfelt.

The Brazilian shirt names are just part of a wider lexicon that is unique to the show. There’s an entire glossary that could be made from the injokes and repeated references. For the uninitiated, it might seem impenetrable on first listen, but Adebayo’s warm and welcoming demeanour nullifies that soon has you feeling part of the club. Tim Vickery thinks it’s integral to the show’s dedicated following, and its longevity: “It has those little injokes, where if you listen every week, you’re part of it.

“Anyone who spends a little bit of time will get to know the little silly injokes that we have. I love that, and I think that’s absolutely crucial to the identity of the show. But without being self indulgent, it’s inclusive, anyone can join in.”

Adebayo and Vickery, as the weekly regulars, define the programme. One thing that you get with a partnership that has lasted such a long time, is the rapport they’ve build and the genuine sense of friendship and camaraderie. Adebayo stresses that the phone-in is much more than a football chat show, and therein lies its biggest strength: “We’re not even talking about football half the time, or so it seems, but it’s a broader church than that.

“Football is used as a prism to talk about so many other things - to entertain people, to have some jokes alongside the way, but also to have some great conversation.”

[soulcollector0100-blog]

Storm Winters Vs Bridgette Monlyneaux

Storm Winters Vs. Bridgette Molyneuax

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ARLINGTON, VA Storm Winters   Address Sealed           Plaintiff                                                            Case #:    ______________                   v.         Bridgette Molyneaux         

                                                                COMPLAINT PLAINTIFF, Storm Winter, comes this day, Nov 3rd,  2017, pro se, and for the reasons and causes for this Complaint, states as follows:                           COUNT I, II, III IV VII VI:  Criminal Harassment, Intentional Emotional Distress,  Food Tampering and Poisoning and Conspiracy            1. Plaintiff, Storm Winters  rented a room from Bridgette Molyneaux on September 30, 2017. She answered an ad that put me in a desperate situation due to a previous landlord criminals behavior. I highlighted very clearly in that ad what the term of the renting agreement would be since a grey area put me in a desperate situation.            2.  The ad was very explanatory and  left nothing to the imagination yet Bridgette makes me travel 3 hours to come see the room and she pretty much attacks and states she cant rent to me unless I have first months security deposit  and rent up front.  My ad negates everything she said. At that point I had wasted my WHOLE last day before being illegally evicted coming to see a crazy woman’s room. I will post the CL ad so you get an understanding of why I find her comments crazy.                       3. If I had been a normal renter with more time to look and I came to see this room          I would have said FUCK NO and turned around. Excuse my language but that’s how bad her behavior was.  Something is off with Bridgette and she is siding with my criminal landlord with no reason to suggest I have done anything wrong. But there is no law or registry or license required to rent a room so I’m desperate enough on the last day of the month to have to accept Brigette’s room. I’m in a suit with my prior landlord its one criminal after the other. There should be a law or something.                       4. As the ad and our lease agreement states. I paid her 100.00 security deposit and agreed to pay an extra 50 for moving in 3 days earlier then my due date which is the 3rd of every month and we also agreed upon 30.00 for Bridgette transporting me back and forth between my previous landlord’s address and the new address. Rent is 500.00. So I Paid 580.00 on October with Rent being 500 every moth thereafter. I gave Bridgette Money with a lease agreement of my own. I was aware she had a lease agreement but due to my previous landlord behavior I created my own. Bridegtte states she will implement my lease into her lease and then we will sign. So I’m thinking she takes the money because she is agreeing. She is agreeing she can say whatever she likes. It states in the lease agreement I’m paying her 580 upon these conditions. It is now the 22nd and no lease agreement has been brought back to my attention but she has spent the money.                  5.In fact criminal activity has occurred first. Which I am not surprised by because of how she behaved upon me meeting her and seeing the room. She was protective of Sglinda which must mean she is guilty of the same behavior. It all falls under criminal harassment and other crimes.                 6. I noticed immediaitely she is taking my things then pretending to be unawares of their whereabouts I have to strong arm her metaphorically into telling me where she has placed my things. For example  Bridgette has two rooms she can rent. I am staying in one and the other is empty now and was empty when I moved in. She states she found pants in the bottom bedroom. It’s a lie because I don’t go in that room. And the day she says she found pants down there I wasn’t downstairs at all. Laundry and the empty bedroom is downstairs everything else is upstairs. Also I have a power cord to my labtop. Bridgette does as well. My power cord is in my room 90 percent of them time. Seldomly I bring it in the kitchen the ONLY other place it could ever be placed by me. My power cord to my labtop goes missing from my room. Bridgette has left the house. I text her and say sarcastically you haven’t seen my power cord to my labtop you didn’t ACCIDENTLY take it. Quite honestly in another life its possible she picked up someone elses by mistake because her power cord stays in the kitchen. But my power cord is in my room. Im pretty sure it was not accident. She comes back from wherever she was attempting to play stupid. That’s not your power plug over there? She is referring to her power plug that stays in the kitchen. I say no.  My input piece has a green ring around it hers is black. I looked in the living room before she came home. We were both in the living room when she came home and I watched her lie and pretend to look for it. The living room was empty and I’m never In the livingroom. Let alone with my labtop. I leave because I realize I will never get it back if I watch her. She will continue to lie. 10 minutes later. SHES FOUND IT. When I ask where she says the living room. It’s a lie but I leave it alone and put it in email. I brought household items when I went grocery shopping the beginning of the month. Toliet tissue Lysol Spray to clean the bathroom soap  Dish Liquid Clothes detergent liquid hand soap etc. I clean the bathroom atleast twice a week if not more. I place my Lysol spray on a nearly empty shelf in the bathroom. Its been there for weeks I notice immediately its been moved because when I go to clean the bathroom Its been removed. I ask Bridgette did you move my spray? At first she plays stupid. She then tries to point at other things SHES brought. I clearly say LYSOL spray over and over again. She’s pointing at scrubbing bubbles some other bathroom cleaners. She finally comes cleans after like three to five minutes and says I put some stuff in the downstairs bathroom. A bathroom I never use. Because there is a bathroom upstairs. She says its probably downstairs. I have a lot of sprays. It is in the downstairs bathroom but its not among OTHER Lysol SPRAYS which she has me believing. Its just other sprays. Not Lysol spray. She was trying to make it appear like an accident.             7. Upon first buying food I have to go back to Walmart to return food items because the frozen dinner has some brown substance that does not melt properly. I also have to return to Walmart because I ask Bridgette when I notice she has a printer if I buy the ink and paper do you mind If I use the printer She says sure We can go half on the ink. I originally go to the store when I buy food and purchase the paper and ink. When I go to let Bridgette know I need to use the printer she had gone ballistic done a 180. Doesn’t want me to use it. Something about she doesn’t want people in her room or something silly. Let me put here she is calling me every two minutes to call her phone when she loses it in her room. Or asking me do I know how to do something with the computer. Which I personally think is a ruse for me to unlock my phone so she can get inside. She asked more than once to take my phone and call her phone which I deny. I follow her and call. This is the climate of Bridgette’s behavior she is a Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde. She Is nice charismatic one minute then angry and can’t be bothered the next.  Emotionally Unstable is my first guess. She says she will give me the money back for the ink and the paper. Which Is when Bridgette takes me to Walmart and I return the frozen food that will not melt but is brown. Surprisingly and embarrassingly to admit I wasn’t focused on that it could be Bridgette that is how charismatic she is. But now I believe differently.               8. A few days prior to the 12th of October Bridgette tells me house guest are coming and they are not staying long. On the night of the eleventh I count my food because I planned to go to Walmart and buy more frozen dinners to last the remainder of the month. Since my income is fixed. I will put here I already had just a passing suspicion of there should be more food then that in here but nothing more nothing less before the 12. I count the food on the night of the 11th. I have 12 meals. I eat breakfast the morning of the 12th and im actually woken up by the new house guest and I see the “wife” in passing. I am gone all day until about 5 or 6 pm. Upon returning I eat two meals since I missed lunch and it was dinner time. I brought 17 frozen meals. After I eat two frozen meals. I count my frozen meals again an hour or so later after I have eaten and put food away. I have counted 14 meals. I should have had a total of 27.  On the night of the 12th. I text Bridgette and let her know a substantial amount of my food is missing. I am requesting a refund. Bridgette ignores me for DAYS I have to continuously tell her to check her  texts and when I do talk to her in persons she is irritated and telling me she will read text later. I feel like a bother but it should have been ONE conversation. She creates the back and forth thing. My meals are returned but opened. One is opened which takes everything in the fridge. I finally go and point blank tell her we need to talk. She even off puts this LEAVES and then tells me she will be back later. This is days of AVOIDANCE. When we finally do talk she threatens to put me out or she says are you giving notice? She starts putting words in my mouth. She is sure they are a white military couple. They would never. Has never met these people in her life. In her fucking life. I even drafted a letter to give to the down stairs neighbors. Its professional but guilty parties will hate to read their guilt on a page Bridgette refuses to read it giving It to them is out of the question. We have not had a problem outside of Bridgette’s broken toilet which she was trying to make me pay for which was fixed. Before they got here. I am an ideal tenant. I will paste the letter I wrote for the downstairs tenants in this letter complaint as well. The mans wife is saying smart shit out her mouth while in my room the walls are beneath paper thin, plastic thin. I respond days later. You can hear them having sex and talking without a lot of work. My bedroom is above theirs. Why is a couple staying in a room in the FIRST PLACE? Makes no sense. Anyway that night Bridgette tells me to let her know what needs replacing. I text her the next day 40 is the amount she owes me on the guest behalf. She acts like she has not told me to tell her what she owes. She says I DON’T owe you ANYTHING. SHE becomes volatile hostile LOUD and agitated I walked away screaming I mad. I close my door and I say closed my door I need to calm down. Bridgette is ignoring me all THREE times I said it  and shes still trying to come  into my room and my door is closed.  I told her I was calling the police. Which I did that report number Is------ By officer------------- . I was instructed to call back as events happen. I have done another report online.  When I call the police she comes back and acts again as if nothing has happened. SOMETHING Is wrong with the bitch. She says im going to get you a microwave a small refrigerator and a key to your room. I play double advocate with her because this is a twistable lock on my door but there is no place for a key to go. The roomates have left on the 19th. They were slamming doors 20 times in 15 minutes which is documented in texts to Bridgette upon the noise and door slamming happening. They were upstairs in the kitchen. Bridgette has stopped responding to texts after the power cord incident before the couple came. I am pretty sure she is still reading them but she does not respond. The night she is trying to enter my room Bridgette tries to cover the white couple by saying you were telling me about missing food before they came. It’s a lie. I was suspicious but I haven’t talk to Bridgette about missing food until the 12th which is when the roomates arrived or their next day. That in text. Even when she  BALATNTLY has taken my stuff I have never said You’re stealing my stuff although her behavior is her behavior its criminal harassment. And I was thinking it.  All her behavior is in my email should the judge be interested. She is trying to cover for them I will paste the police complaints in this complaint. I have numerous of texts that I may paste in this complaint. I tell Bridgette she can give me 40 dollars now or I will deduct it from rent. I also let her know that the locks need to be changed on the front door one due to a tenant moving out two due to the fact their behavior is questionable. CRIMINAL. Unless Bridgette is in on the whole thing and that’s why she is not concerned. I personally care if MY food is being tampered with my house is being brought negative attention to by people hanging out being loud 11 pm at night slamming doors over 20 times and im not exaggerating I’m probably under exaggerating. This is in TEXTS Bridgette does not care. Thinks white men are GOD. Is an older woman not surprising, This is 2017. It is not slave times. Someone needs to tell her he Is “married” or a pimp and she old I’m sure he’s not interested.  Anyway back to them moving out and Bridgette getting upset at me even trying to talk to her about the food tampering and the money she owes me. She attempts to create a time for us to talk Monday. At 2:00. I didn’t even realize its Thursday a whole 4 days away and I HAVE TO eat all my food is in the trash. Will not be getting eaten by me. Bridgette is home 80 if not 90 percent of the time and up ALL hours of the night EVERY night. I’m sure something is wrong with her. She leaves her room probably 10 times in a hour. Her door creaks which is how I know. It’s not healthy or sane and given free world she can do as she pleases in her house but she has a roommate. Attest of character and behavior. And I notice a lot she leaves the room when I enter or exit my room or the bathroom. My first two days here she was copying the color clothes I wore. I wrote it off but something aint right upstairs. Like she had on clothes then changed clothes to match what I was wearing.           9. After I send her text stating the locks on the front door need to be changed. The next day Bridgette has been gone all day I notice at 1:00 pm the doors is left ajar and obviously unlocked I take a picture of it and send it to Bridgette and I say I could lie and say someone tried to rob me or walked in assaulted me and you’d be on trial for attempted and premeditated murder. She has also brought diet COKE. Never brought soda while ive been here and definitely not coke. It’s not the first time someone has used my name in a joke or harassing manner. My name is Keyonna. She Is not taking this seriously and I did request the tenants contact information since they have left and Bridgette was unwilling to intervene as landlord. I warn her if she is not willing to be proactive about this or giving me their contact information I will be pursuing a suit. I was already pursuing a suit. I cannot enjoy my food and I spend 500 a month in rent and I’m scared to leave the house for fear she is doing stuff to my food to my belongings. I paid her and she owes me money. She doesn’t even respond to text. She just harasses me. I have a whole gallon of milk that’s been sitting there since the 3rd of the month. Still sitting in the fridge the couple could have done anything to it. My food was in the fridge for 5 days before I stopped eating it. I don’t know who has done what and how. That was my food for the month and while I have oatmeal and Ramen Noodles I am still going to near stave until the 3rd of the month. Below You will find CL AD Lease Agreement, Police Complaints. Texts Messages Lease Agreement (Supplement to Landlords Agreement) On this third day of October 2017 Bridgette, Landlord at   is being paid $580.00  by  Keyona Ferrell, tenant  for October’s Rent only. Bridgette, Landlord and Keyona Ferrell, tenant are entering into a LEASE AGREEMENT. Rent is $500.00 monthly for the room on the second floor.  Landlord was paid an additional  $50.00 as agreed upon in the  CL  ad for the tenant arriving on the 30th of September 2017 three days prior to Rent due date. Bridgette, Landlord. also received $30.00 additional dollars for Octobers Rent for transporting tenant back and forth between this address and my previous address upon move in. $580.00 is being paid only for the month of October.  $100.00 Security deposit was paid to Bridgette on the 30th of September 2017 upon moving in. It is expected to be returned upon move out date. Rent is due on the third of every month in the amount of 500.00. This lease is month to month which requires a 30 days notice to be terminated. The thirty days must begin on the third and end on the third. Tenant is mandating a 30  days notice for termination of the lease agreement. Tenant is mandating all information regarding tenant while renting a room and anytime there after I move out be kept confidential. Tenant is mandating all information collected during move in such as ID and income verification  paperwork and rental agreement be destroyed. Tenant Is mandating an extra 30 days should ANY party give a 30 days notice if a new place of residence is not found within those 30 days. Those additional 30 days will be accompanied by rent of $500. __________________________              ____________________________ Bridgette, Landlord’s Signature                Keyona Ferrell, Tenant’ Signature

This Is the letter I wrote for the people downstairs but  Bridgette is refusing to read. I found an open container of food yesterday. Threw it away. I am writing this letter for the neighbors downstairs. It is my understanding that you are temporary guest. That is what I was told  before you arrived. I am a no nonsense laid back quite roommate. I don’t bother people and I usually stay to myself and only use things in MY POSSESSION.  It has come to my attention a large number of my meals were taken and or eaten then returned or majority of them were returned. I will be talking to Bridgette today and discussing with her that she has your real names and ways to identify you because unfortunately yesterday I found one of my meals opened. I started to eat it then threw it away.  It’s unfortunate we are off on a bad foot because I don’t know you and I’m quiet and keep to myself but for obvious reason I cant let the possibility of food tampering and or food poisoning go without notice. All frozen meals in the fridge are mine please be courteous and not touch them.  To be quite frank if you have not purchased something please bestow the same courtesy you would like other people to bestow upon your things.  Thanks again for your COOPERATION. The four police report numbers are BM Rutherford 2396 pd17101900267859        there are extension such as when Bridgettes daughetrs came and they were acting hostile I just added to the original police report. That number should pull up ALL of them. A police Officer was called to the property of 4318 0n the 19th of October 2017 due to possible food poisoning and food tampering and Bridgette’s behavior. I moved in on this property on the 30th of September. I've brought food twice this month the first was on the third which is when I get my workmans comp for my knee injury and the second time was the  12 when new temporary house guess of Bridgette moved in. The new house guest are a white couple. I personally find it weird a  COUPLE is renting a room. Either they are CRAZY poor or an its an emergency situation or they are covering for Bridgette. Anyway on the night of the 11 of this month I COUNT my frozen meals becasue I am going to Walmart on the 12th and this is my last trip to the grocery store for the month my food has to last I count to know how many I will need. The next day I eat breakfast. I am actually awoken by loud giggling  and hearing the new guest on out floor there room is downstairs. I see the wife on my way to warm up oatmeal. I am gone all day I return around dinnerI Buy 17 frozen dinners and eat two immediately upon returning since I skipped lunch while out. I should have had atlest 15 from what I brought and at least 12 meals in the freezer prior. A a few hours later I HAVE Substanially less then that I want to say atleast 6 to 8 meals are missing at that point. I write a text to my landlord stating items are missing its my food for the month. I need the money for those items. The food was replaced a while later BUT ally my texts go ignored by the LANDLORD. I first think okay they returned it no harm no foul one of my frozen meals is open which I stupidly start to eat but then throw away. They have taken all the food in fridge. at this point because those are containers that can be resealed. I threw them away Bridgette puts them back in the fridge Bridgette is my landlord. Let me just say my landlord has suspicious behavior before the couple moved in that i document in email but do not talk to her about because it cased conflict but mainly she takes my stuff and then plays stupid to it whereabouts. She create conflicts so it is a possibility Its Bridgette taking my meals its also possible the white couple is it in kahootz with her. A few days ago I say I would like to write the guest a letter letting them know my frozen meals are off limits and I want a refund if they have taken my food The letter is professional. She refused to talk to them or let me talk to them. They are white she is old and probably crazily think she is going to get with the you MARRIED white guy. I really dont know. She was born in slave times. That is only half a joke. This is 2017 I work around white people. I dont see anything and if they are guilty they are guilty end of discussion. They leave a fe days ago. slamming the door 20 times in 15 minutes and they are in the kitchen scrounging around. Bridgette didnt come to me and tell me they left I figured that out didnt see the car and didnt hear them as every night they are giggling and talking loud enough for me to hear them. They are directly under my room. I do have emergency food but i am still going to dam near starve until the third. The woman ign0re ALL my texts says things like tell me how much everything cost I do in text says she owes me 40 dollar. She ignored my text to the point I have to come talk to her she is loud and screaming I just call the cops at that point. If I cant enjoy my food where I stay its a suit. She just keep saying they are a white militay family they arent doing anything to your food. Bridgette sleeps and leaves she doesnt know what these people do and they appear to be poor. I have milk in the fridge he could have done ANYTHING with that my frozen meals were open. I had to throw them ALL away just for one being open. His wife one night makes a comment to me our wall are like plastic between us the first night I say nothing the night or two before they leave I respond back I hear them having sex its just gross. Ewww. I tell them to buy their own food. I have texted Bridgette stating the doors locks need to changed since they have left. I also tell her I will be taking here to court if I dont not get the roomates contact information. The following day which is today the front door is left ajar and unlocked and bridgette has been gone all day I notice it around 1:00 pm I take a pictre and send bridgette a text. I say I could lie and say someone broke and and tried to murder me then youd be on trial for attempted murder. I SAY this is criminal harassment and I will be taking you to court. I WILL BE GETTING The neighbors contact information. She also went out BROUGHT DIET COKE My name IS Keyonna its happened before. She is a landlord causing damages while not land lording but taking rent money. I told officer Rutherford I wasn’t interested in  having anyone arrested but if he’d like to im down. Chick batshit I have text emails and pictures. I do have one camera from when I was at sglindas.  I placed that in BRIDGETTS kitchen upon arriving then removed it shortly after My stuff went missing. I will be buying another for my room on today’s date December 3rd.  The text sent to Sglinda is enclosed.  Only the first text is Sglinda Every other txt is to Bridgette. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Sep 17

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this is to let you know i have put a camera in my room. Text Messages 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:04 PM (13 hours ago)

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ok on my way back pulling 580 out. will sign the lease when I return.

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Okay 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:05 PM (13 hours ago)

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hey im on the bus headed to walmart do you mind writing down the black ink cartridge. you can give me half when I get back in the house. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:05 PM (13 hours ago)

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Ok 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:06 PM (13 hours ago)

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ok thanks (no subject)

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2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:06 PM (13 hours ago)

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hey its abnormally hot in the house do you mind turning the ac on?

2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:07 PM (13 hours ago)

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im going to need to print before I go to bed tonight. Reply

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2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:07 PM (13 hours ago)

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i think I figured out how to print from my labtop whats your printers full id cannon and then the numbers. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:07 PM (13 hours ago)

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omg youre gone and I vant find my labtop cord. all i see is your labtop cord did you ACCIDENTALLLY pick mines up. you wouldnt know where it is would you?

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hey so im just going out on a ledge. its possible i miscounted but are you eating my dinners? 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:08 PM (13 hours ago)

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please let the people downstairs know my food is off limits and if it anything was eaten they owe me money 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:08 PM (13 hours ago)

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so i was trying yo be cordial and respectful. I'm not a conflict person but you seem obstinate tell possibly quilty parties need to know information. those are unfortunately your house guest so if they have taken something of mine you owe me on their behalf. that is my food for the rest of the month. you should not have known that but food is missing so I have to make you aware. thats 8 meals a total of 11.40.

2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:08 PM (13 hours ago)

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im sorry looking at my receipt i didnt even have what I purchased. missing one that would be 1280. one is missing from what i brought as we 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:09 PM (13 hours ago)

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I see alot of traffic and alot of noise.

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2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:09 PM (13 hours ago)

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there is a bunch of people i want to say atleast three talking loudly in the front yard I understand its saturday but there are restaurants Othe places besides neighbor hood to cause disturbances in this quiet neighborhood 1048 at night 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:09 PM (13 hours ago)

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i am requesting 40 dollars for the food in the fridge. you told me to tell you what i need replacing 40 should replace it and that will include my dinner for tonight.

2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:09 PM (13 hours ago)

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I did call you because you become upset when i tryto talk to you in person. i do understand your busy and you said monday at 2 but i did state in the previous texts that 40 is going towards yesterdays dinner its now near lunch the following day. and you are home. we are both adults i feel as though the games are unneccessary. i did as asked and I have to eat. i did also ask this morning you check your text messages. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:10 PM (13 hours ago)

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2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:10 PM (13 hours ago)

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i did call the cops. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 8:10 PM (14 hours ago)

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i am waiting for the cops 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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you can give me the 40 dollars or I can deduct it from rent. its up to you. all that food is going in the trash.

2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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you were given a 100.00 security deposit on the 30th as well as 580 on the third along with a lease to sign which you said you were going to sign after you oncorporated my lease into your lease. you took money with promise of a lease that incorporated both my lease and your lease. rent is 500 i paid 50 for coming 3 days early and 30 forgas for taking me back and forth to sglindas Reply

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thats why 580 was paid on the third rent is 500. you also answered an ad which put me on a desperate situation and highlighted in great detail our lease agreement. it is now the 21st and you not yet mentioned signing the lease but you took money 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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the lease I created and gave to you states a 30 days notice is required to terminate the lease i also mandated any thing regarding me and my stay be kept confidential. i also requested any information obtained be destroyed upon me moving out like income verification and id 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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the last one was that if any 30 days notice is given by any party i be given an additional 30 days if i am not successful finding somewhere to go. you bulked at this one saying you were declining. i have a copy as well. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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you rent a room where anything can go wrong at any time checking your texts at least daily is required and especially after i tell you continuously to check your texts. these are my last text about anything as you are not behaving in an adult manner. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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the food was thrown away i have pictures you pytting it back doesnt help you its starts lookibg like...i have a pic from yesterday of the food thrown out im taking a pic of the food being put back in the fridge. the food was put back in by you when all was in the trash.

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nice house its unfortunate 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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I will be pursuing a suit for the couples name that was down stairs and who appeared to have moved out. my food was in that fridge for about a week before i stopped eating it. i will take this house. i want their names and contact information. (no subject)

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i still may take your house. i dont play those games 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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these people were upstairs slamming doors in your kitchen and you dont care so either you are apart of it or you stupid but I will sue gor their names and their onformation. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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i am a virgin so should that be compromised say goodbye to your house you ignored multiple warnings

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2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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i want their phone number or I will sue you gor it. up to you. Reply

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if you talk to them you start with their are cameras in the kitchen do not tell them you are unsure of anything. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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i see you brought new milk. so you must be concerned. must be.

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i am interested to know why you keep saying they still are here. gone since like two days ago to my knowledge door slamming over 20 times in 15 minutes 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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i noticed the food you brought die Coke soda i hope its not a sad attempt to harras me because at tgis point it is criminal harrassment and you are apart of it food tampering is a crime. along with food poisoning. you can turn this into a joje but you are souley responsible for another tenants behavior ir maybe it was you and thats why you blocked the letter letting them know my food was off limits. either way i will be suing. secondly you need to change your front door locks and that should happen whenever a tenant moves out. if i cannit enjoy my food you owe me howevee much money i spent in rent when I leave. you seem to cant be bothered maybe a judge will make you care. maybe you had the white couple move in to blam suspicious criminal activity on them either way. a suit. i dont play those games. im a grown ass woman half your age acting with more sense than you. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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also its freezing in the house has been since the last week it be great if you turn the heat on. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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you were called although I never brought the i dont read texts spill. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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noticed this from upstairs leaving the kitcgen

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youve been gone all-day to my knowledge. door has been open all day and i had no clue 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net Oct 22 (12 days ago)

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i could lie and say someone came in trued to robbed me anything and youd be on trial for attempted murderer. the games need to stop youre a grown ass woman begging to go to jail

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im going to need the money by tomorrow. secondly when are these people leaving? to me

i suggest you be proactive before YOU be outside its not a threar its a promise. i will sue you and take this house Only the following message is out of order 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 4:28 AM (2 minutes ago)

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i was instructed to call the police back as events happen. don't run next time. last time i called the police you left. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 4:28 AM (2 minutes ago)

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i wake up from a nap i find bridgette here shes talking about things that have nothing to do with me. shes been harassing call me boo boo. saying sue boo boo. i sent it to bridgette as proof it has happened 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 4:29 AM (3 minutes ago)

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this is following her and daughters harrassing behavior after receiving the civil suit. her daughter knowing anything breaches our lease agreement. i dont care if the daughter know shes has a roomate byt i made this lease agreement with bridgette. her daughter was also harassing mockibgly asking me my name because i put a different name in the civil suit i sent bridgette yesterday via email which is why her daughter came to see me. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 4:29 AM (3 minutes ago)

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i did record them yesterday when they became loud and agressive walked away after a whilw. the daughter threatened to call the cops because i walked off on them refuse to stay and talk. i filed an additional police report online about their behavior for security purposes. 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 4:30 AM (3 minutes ago)

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Also i did tell you rent would be 460 this mont due to my food being thrown in the trash. All updates. please let me know if you have any questions 2023412145@mms.cricketwireless.net 4:30 AM (3 minutes ago)

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um i understood you heard noise but im in the bathroom abd I did say repeatedly everything's fine. yet you barge in while im on the toilet. and i have to tell you multiple times to close the door you opened. if i have to tell you whats wrong with that picture. god help you. im on the toilet and we are on strangers then you are attempting to get upset i nearly tripped on an inanimate object in the bathroom. its amazing. if i had been seriously hurt its a suit. let stuff go or better yet listen when I say everything's fine. you worked up over nothing. of im not screaming and yelling and I almost tripped you certainly dont have a reason to be upset. Please note these texts happened over a course of aout 10 to 14 days I emailed them all on on abot two days so you will see two dates. The last are emails of events that have happened in the past few days.

Lease Agreement 3 messages

Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 3:18 PM To: Bridgette came to me saying---again repeatin herself-- she boldy state me coming to her with a CONCERN is breaking a rule she never game me. She is just now showing me a sheet of paper about rules and its TITLED IMMEDIATE TEERMINATION OF LEASE. I say mam I'm quite I don't bother anyone I have the right to come to you with a concern like OPEN food and she she is saying if SHE hears something and believes it DIDNT happen she is not going to talk to ANYONE. So pretty much she wants me to sign that there are no consequences to actions and that her retalion is allowed. She made up a list of house rules off WHAT HAS HAPPENED and what she provoked. he call me talking to her about CONCERNS accusations and LYING. Only NICE FRINDLY text are allowed. I say I have no problem wit house rules. I love rule its keep order. I say I will sign but you need to change the title it says housed rules then IMMEDIATE TERMINATION OF LEASE IN big bold letters. she tries to play me and say she will give me a lease to sign with it. I say I will sign it If you change the title. or add to it to clearly state this a I a supplmenet to lease agreement and if these rules are broken its immediate termination of leae. She refused to change the title saying shes not changing anything and if I wont sign it shes going to the judge to get a 30 days notice.  I'm not signing it it appears like I agreed to be immediately terminated.  Secondly I let her know in the beginning of the conversation I haven't broken any rules we have no had conflict except for broken toilet she tries to put on me which she had to HAve FIXED. I'm QUIET. I say I didn't give you a thirty days notice you are attempting to give me one in retaltion for saying I have a concern about OPEN food and taken food. We have a lease agreement whether she likes it or not. She is trying to over talk me and say we don't have a lease agreement we do. She tries to make me look crazy and show me what a  lease agreement is. I say I know that looks just like what I gave  you in the beginning of the month. She tells me someone wants to give me a deposit for decmeber I say You gave me till Janurary and I cant tell you how Long IT WILL TAKE CONSIDERING it took over 6 weeks  to find this this place. Craigslist is full of fake ad. I didn't gibve you a thirty days notice purposefully. I didn't cause the problem the romates cause this problem.

Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 3:20 PM I also ask her if there are cameras in the kitchen You cannot think WHITE stranger are angels because they are white. Criminals come in ALL colors. Unless you have a camera in the kitchen you cant tell me they didn't do ANYTHING. I also ask her about the door slamming she says she gave me them permission to slam the door 20 times. I am calm anyone gets incenses when they realize they are talking to stupid ignorant people voice probably became a little loud but I think it was more because I was making too much sense. [Quoted text hidden]

Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 3:24 PM *She gave them permission to slam the door twenty times. IM going to leave that alone, Something wrong with her. I'm trying to tell you a modern day slave. I'm going to hit up Stephen Spelileberg. On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 5:46 PM, SHE SET A time for us to meet in the house, I see the broad atleast three times a  day I had to ambush her to talk today at breakfast because she IGNORES my text even after I say did you read my text two days later oh no I have to read them she is always on her phone. NO mam you then owe me this month and last months rents and I will fucking leave. If I cannot trust my food in the house I don't have a place to stay you owe me money and I will be excessive because you don't have sense and then you think you going to strong arm with a 30 days notice bitch I will take your house ad leave your ass outside. Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 8:34 AM So Bridgette comes to me today saying she will give me till january if I need it. shes aware of the fake ads shes telling me she doesn't check her texts. I stop talking to bridgette in person because she gets upset secondly its easier and its awkward.when I had nothing to do with it. shes telling me someone is moving in today a woman in the room next door. she then goes back to the food shes attempting to tell me this couple has all this money and im assuming they paid 500 for the 7 days thats 200 cheaper then extended stay and its a whole room for two people with a private entrance. she says they asked to use the fridge for leftovers in the whole time theyve been here ive never seen leftovers except coffe left in the microwave. she claims their first night they went to some expensive restaurant in dc with lobster and it's 54 dollars a person she couldn't tell me the restaurant name. i can see you seeing a bag or a container but I find it hard to believe they told you what they ordered. she keeps trying to imply i opened the container. that i possibly made a mistake. and she says she told them to come upstairs. that's why I Have to sue because after they leave shes telling me she talked to them. when she originally while they were here was not allowing me to talk to them or even entertaining she go talk to them. she keeps saying white military couple. then she attempts to take shots at my meals i didnt care but if bitches hungry one dollar 10 dollars its food. I'm still not convinced it wasn't her. i counted 14 meals the night of the 12th. why are you in a room with your wife making all that money. exactly you a lie. people look for other resources when they poor. if i have money lets find a hotel for 7 fucking days. smfh. she tries to again hit me up for money. says the water bill is high. she says you take three showers a day. i say no two once in a blue moon ill take three if im upset. but i say the showers normally are 15 minutes but i will cut it down and i said you had two people here from the 12 to the 19th and the day i did laundry. the dude was just running water might have been for a bath im not sure.but no matter what my rent is 500. end of discussion everything included. her best bargain is me cutting down on shower time. she is looking for the water bill now. [Quoted text hidden]

Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 8:48 AM The water is off. bridgette is claiming its roadside assistance but due to her whole little speech. she didnt pay the water bill. and cant eat my oatmeal. [Quoted text hidden]

Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:50 AM To: Right before I go to take a shower and wash out underwear she comes at me again arguing. She says she wants her rent in full. I fI cant give it to her the way she wants it shes giving me till DECEMEBER. She then says she will eat the food in front of me. nothing Is wrong with it. I said the container wa reseaed and the container inside was OPEN. and considering someone took a lot of my meals its no loneger a possibility Walmart is responsible secondly I have never seen a lean cusine meal open like that. And due to her needing money I'm pretty sure it was either Bridgette or hr guest. I tell her I'm barely eating not eating properly for 10 dayS. sHE TOOK ETHE FOO DOUT THE TRASH mind you its frozen food and had been sitting there for HOURSE I mean probably atleast 5 hours if not more in the house and she puts it back in the fridge. I say you can do whatever you want with the food you placed  the food I through in the trash ack in the fridge I don't want it. Youc an eat it do whatever you want it. Its possible ALL thosef rozen meals have been tampered with. you are responsible for your guest behavior. especially if I'm paying you rent but cant enjoy food. I paid for. SHE says I'm going to the judge I'm going to give you till December. if I cant get my rent the way I want it. This is right before I realize the water is cut off. [Quoted text hidden]

Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:58 AM To: Like if I had to go to work or I had somewhere to go today it would be a suit. No running water and I'm going to starve all my food needs water ramen noodles and oatmeal. [Quoted text hidden]

Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 10:38 AM To: The water is just being turned back on. Probably with  the money the girl moving in gave her She received 680 on the third no excuse poor. SMFH lol The first thing Bridgette brought when I gave her the 100 was food from Walmart and not even snacks green celey shit SMFH lol On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:58 AM,  wrote: Like if I had to go to work or I had somewhere to go today it would be a suit. No running water and I'm going to starve all my food needs water ramen noodles and oatmeal. On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:50 AM, wrote: Right before I go to take a shower and wash out underwear she comes at me again arguing. She says she wants her rent in full. I fI cant give it to her the way she wants it shes giving me till DECEMEBER. She then says she will eat the food in front of me. nothing Is wrong with it. I said the container wa reseaed and the container inside was OPEN. and considering someone took a lot of my meals its no loneger a possibility Walmart is responsible secondly I have never seen a lean cusine meal open like that. And due to her needing money I'm pretty sure it was either Bridgette or hr guest. I tell her I'm barely eating not eating properly for 10 dayS. sHE TOOK ETHE FOO DOUT THE TRASH mind you its frozen food and had been sitting there for HOURSE I mean probably atleast 5 hours if not more in the house and she puts it back in the fridge. I say you can do whatever you want with the food you placed  the food I through in the trash ack in the fridge I don't want it. Youc an eat it do whatever you want it. Its possible ALL thosef rozen meals have been tampered with. you are responsible for your guest behavior. especially if I'm paying you rent but cant enjoy food. I paid for. SHE says I'm going to the judge I'm going to give you till December. if I cant get my rent the way I want it. This is right before I realize the water is cut off. [Quoted text hidden] Relief Bridgette Is forced to hand over contact information regarding the couple I am requesting a criminal investigation after the couple has been contacted. I am requesting a criminal investigation of Bridgette Molyneaux I am requesting jail time if evidence warrants an arrest. I am requesting the sum of Bridgette’s house or 400,000. While Im aware this I not the best situation anything Is better then being homeless. Should I not find anywhere to go by December 3rd I AM REQUETING the judge mandate Bridgette give me till Janurary 3rd or I find somewhere to go since I was not the on to mandate a 30 days notice. It is actually retaliation on Bridgettes end. I have told the story to tell the housemate to get the truth she gets upset at me even wanting to talk talk to them about anything. Either she is the guilty party or she is a slave, press for white people. But Due to its possible that Its Bridgette tampering with my food. Im  going to lie and say I placed a camera in the kitchen upon moving in. I have an email from my old roomates in which I goaded. Im going to paste it with the suit to scare Bridgette into telling the truth. But I need this portion redacted from even Bridgette’s view. I am requesting this  WHOLE SUIT be sealed but Bridgette is the defendant and has to see the suit. I am requesting jus this last portion be redacted from her view. It Is for the judge’s Eyes only.

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Block Party: Seven Takeaways from Flyers 2, Blues 0

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  Let’s face it, the odds were long. There weren’t very many sane hockey folks who thought the Flyers had a prayer last night.

Let’s look at the facts heading into the game:

St. Louis entered the game tied for the best record in the NHL.

The Flyers were starting their most inexperienced defense ever – with four of the six defensemen having a combined 27 games of NHL experience.

The Blues were undefeated at home coming into the game.

The Flyers had played the night before in Chicago, and had to travel overnight while St. Louis was waiting for them at home, well-rested.

The Flyers offense has been sputtering, having scored in only one of the previous six periods.

It was a pretty forgone conclusion that the night wouldn’t go well.

To steal a line from former ESPN anchor Chris Berman, “A wise man once said, that’s why they play the games.”

The Flyers had no business being in this game with St. Louis, let alone winning it. But somehow, they found a way. They did so by committing to a team-oriented defensive concept that was designed to let them hang around in the game against a superior team.

And instead of just hanging around, they came into the Blues’ house party, ate all the cheese and queso dip [editor’s note: no, not the queso] stood on the furniture and kicked the keg all by themselves with an impressive 2-0 win.

Let’s break this down before the NHL changes its mind and insists the game is replayed in an effort to bring balance back to the universe.

To the takeaways:

1) Ivan the Terrific

Bold prediction time – Ivan Provorov will be the best home-grown defenseman in franchise history. Granted, he doesn’t have stiff competition, but the guys who sit atop the list as the best defensemen to ever don a Flyers sweater all came from somewhere else.

Mark Howe, Eric Desjardins, Kimmo Timonen, Chris Pronger.

And the list of the best defensemen ever drafted by the Flyers?

Chris Therien, Jimmy Watson, Dimitri Yushkevich, Behn Wilson.

I guess there can be arguments about the end of that list, but that’s like arguing who the last team in the CollegeInsider.com postseason NCAA tournament should be.

As for Provorov, he’s only 20 years old but plays like a 10-year veteran.

He has fewer than 100 games played in the NHL yet he does things that many vets don’t.

He is incredibly sound positionally. He is smart. He is fearless. And he is one of the premiere young stars at his position in the sport.

He doesn’t get a ton of national recognition because he doesn’t put up a ton of points for a defenseman – at least not yet. But what he does do, is strap his wounded team onto his shoulders and carries them when they need it most.

And oh yeah – another bold prediction – he’s the next team captain after Claude Giroux’s tenure is complete.

Last night’s game was an incredible example. He was on the ice so frequently, he was basically Bugs Bunny.

Seriously. He played top pair defensive minutes – as he always does, but he has been getting extra shifts the past couple games. He was on the No. 1 power play unit. He was on the top penalty kill unit – at one point staying on the ice for the entire two-minute shift.

He was everywhere.

And he tied a franchise record.

Provorov blocked 10 shots in the game. No that’s not a typo. Here’s an example:

Ivan Provorov is a goddamn warrior. http://pic.twitter.com/Tfg0cPE1rL

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) November 3, 2017

The record he tied also belongs to Andrew MacDonald. Just saying.

But it wasn’t just the blocks. Provorov was a beast defensively, shutting down dangerous Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko all night.

It got so frustrating for Tarasenko that Blues coach Mike Yeo pulled Tarasenko off the top line for awhile just to try and get him on the ice when Provorov wasn’t out there – and this for the team who got the last change – which tells you how frequently Provorov was getting on the ice.

This is what Tarasenko was dealing with all night long:

Provorov and Hagg help negate Tarasenko from doing anything with the puck. http://pic.twitter.com/UXNv7NWE6y

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) November 3, 2017

Ivan Provorov with a stellar play to get the puck away from Tarasenko. He's an absolute MACHINE. http://pic.twitter.com/s1iZrJknpd

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) November 3, 2017

A machine for sure. He played 57 minutes of hockey in a span of 27 hours in two cities against two very good teams – and the Flyers needed every last second from him.

Usually, defensmen in the NHL don’t really come into their own as difference-making players until they are 26 or 27 years old, so Provorov is way ahead of schedule. I mean, he’s like Doogie Howser ahead of schedule.

(For those of you under 30 who have no clue who Doogie Howser is, look him up. You can also stream the show on Hulu – even if it’s 25 years old).

And to be this good at 20 tells you there’s a very good chance that he’s going to be an elite star in this league for a long time. Flyers fans should be very, very happy – and thankful on nights like last night.

  2) Great night for Hak

It’s always easy to criticize a coach. Frankly, coaches probably get too much scrutiny from writers – and that includes me – but they don’t always get a lot of credit, especially in a sport where the game plan is harder to identify and comprehend – like hockey.

But I try to identify these things from time to time and really give a coach his due if he makes a difference.

Dave Hakstol may have cost his team a point (potentially two) with a silly challenge in Nashville last month, but he responded last night by earning his team two points.

Specifically, Hakstol’s gameplan coming in was superb. Yes, it took the team buying into the concept to really make it work. And yes, the Blues had 68 shots attempted compared to the Flyers’ meager total of 39 and, long-term, that kind of difference does not breed sustainable success.

But for one night, it was the right thing to do.

What was it?

It was a game plan that required the Flyers to sag back in front of their own net whenever St. Louis had the puck and really create a traffic jam in front of goalie Michal Neuvirth.

There were many times when the Flyers had all five players between the faceoff dots and below the circles while the Blues passed the puck around them looking for shooting lanes that weren’t there.

It was one of the reasons Provorov had 10 blocks and the Flyers, as a team, had 20. The Blues also had 15 shots that missed the net completely because the Flyers were taking away the better angles all night.

While it may have looked a little scrambly at the beginning of the game – the Blues were out-shooting the Flyers 10-1 in the first seven minutes – it was certainly intentional.

With the defense as green as it’s ever been (according to the team it was the most inexperienced six defensemen to ever suit up in one game for the Flyers) it was the only way to keep the team in the game. It was a smart strategy and it was executed incredibly well.

But that’s not all for Hak. Nope. Something else happened:

  3) He won a challenge!

First, here’s the play in question:

A goal? http://pic.twitter.com/orzQsMsXS8

— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) November 3, 2017

Of course it was Brandon Manning, right? His goal was overturned in Ottawa last week for a weak goalie interference call on Jordan Weal.

Well, this time, his tally was called no goal on the ice by referee Eric Furlatt, who insisted Jake Voracek interfered with Jake Allen on the play.

But upon further review…

That is a goal. http://pic.twitter.com/ZBUJOBHh8A

— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) November 3, 2017

The difference between the two is so slight, but Voracek never skates into the crease– Weal did. But, with the way things have gone against the Flyers with the men in stripes so far this season, you can understand why Hakstol thought long and hard about it.

I wish there was video of his facial expression on the bench when he told the refs he was going to challenge.

It was half exasperation. Half worry. There was no vision of confidence. It’s as if this sentence was rolling through his head in the nanoseconds before he announced he was challenging this play:

“I can’t have this blow up in my face again. I can’t. I can’t. Don’t do it, Dave. You know what your eyes see but in the NHL, very often, your eyes deceive you. Don’t do it. Don’t make your team shorthanded again. No. Don’t….”

And then he challenged. And lo and behold, he freaking won the challenge.

Good for Hak. It was the right call. For once the NHL didn’t trip all over itself with some inane rule that would have kept the call on the ice as no goal.

Great job by the coach. And great job by…

  4) Man Dog

Brandon Manning had another good game. He scored for the second time in three games, and when you consider the Weal intereference goal that was wiped out, it should have been three-in-four.

Regardless, it wasn’t just because he scored that we’re talking about him here. Manning led the Flyers in shots on goal with six. He’s getting an opportunity to fire the puck on net, is doing a good job of getting it there and it’s making things happen.

He also played pretty flawless defense. He skated for 22:56 last night, third most on the team behind Provorov and Robert Hagg (who also had a pretty strong game), and looked every bit of the “veteran defenseman” on the ice.

Manning isn’t ever going to be a top-end defenseman. I’ve said many times, he’s a No. 6/7 in the NHL. But, he’s a guy you need on your team for organizational depth. There’s a reason he was the captain of the Phantoms for a few seasons. He approaches the game the right way. He doesn’t let his emotions get the best of him. He’s a hard-worker, a stand-up guy and a positive locker room presence.

It’s why he’s still with the organization. It’s why he’s where he is on the depth chart. Is he going to make mistakes? Sure. More than the other guys? Probably. But, hockey is a game of mistakes. It’s how you respond to them. And Manning has a short memory which is good.

He’s also an opportunist – and given this opportunity to play and play a lot, he’s done a commendable job.

  5) Neuvirth

Flip the coin. Will you get Hot Neuvy, or Cold Neuvy? The coin landed on Hot Neuvy yesterday. Neuvirth made 33 saves, and more notably had excellent rebound control – something that can be a bit of an Achilles’ heel for him – to record his 11th career shutout.

And while the Flyers were collapsing around him, meaning he didn’t have to move as much to stop pucks and could rely on good positioning for most of the night, the Blues did have some high percentage chances:

Failed poke check by Provorov gives the Blues a chance for a goal. http://pic.twitter.com/FrCKyb6QbL

— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) November 3, 2017

Neuvirth snatches the puck out of the air. http://pic.twitter.com/w0eH6EOOrp

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) November 3, 2017

Left-handed larceny on the old teammate! http://pic.twitter.com/LzlVEJOXli

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) November 3, 2017

But we almost lost him again right here thanks to a rogue Mark Alt stick blade:

Mark Alt's stick gets right through Neuvirth's mask. http://pic.twitter.com/zY2NH2U7oM

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) November 3, 2017

Now… the tip of the blade caught Neuvirth inthe forehead, but his reaction was akin to stepping on a landmine.

Neuvirth dropped his stick, threw his head back, and collapsed. He took a minute to get up and kept grabbing at his forehead… of course… but, there’s no mark there:

Neuvy breathes a sigh of relief. http://pic.twitter.com/LHRzrJynyS

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) November 3, 2017

Hey, the guy’s a little melodramatic. He’s a goalie. They’re like relief pitchers and community theatre actors. As long as he stops the puck, the histrionics are an acceptable part of the package.

  6) This was an injury to worry about

For about 20 minutes, the Philadelphia hockey world held it’s breath.

Former Flyer Brayden Schenn really caught his former teammate – and close friend – Sean Couturier up high with a hit that sent Couturier careening to the ice violently. Here’s the hit:

At least Schenn didn't hit his head. http://pic.twitter.com/fnzpey5V0W

— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) November 3, 2017

The initial tone on Flyers Twitter was that of an angry mob calling for Schenn to be crucified. The Flyers broadcasters didn’t help either, clamoring for a five minute major. (Full disclosure, I had to run out and pick up my son, so I heard the last few minutes of the second period on the radio).

But once I got back and saw the hit, I thought the refs got it right. It was mostly a clean hit – except Couturier didn’t have the puck – which is what made it a penalty. It was shoulder to shoulder. Schenn just caught Couturier at a bad angle, which drove him hard to the ice.

Couturier went off the ice and to the locker room. There was serious doubt that he would return. But he did, and the Flyers fandom let out a big sigh of relief.

Injuries have been brutal so far this season – the patchwork defense is evident. But, the Flyers can truly not afford to lose their top line center at this point – especially with the way he’s playing. THAT was a close call.

  7) Loose Pucks

Will O’Neill, whose name sounds like that of a fiction author more so than a hockey player, made his NHL debut last night for the Flyers on defense. The 29-year-old waited a long time for this opportunity. He did well in limited time. He played just a little more than 10 minutes but finished tied for second on the team in shots on goal. And… earned himself a heck of a gif:

First NHL smelling salt. A huge accomplishment! http://pic.twitter.com/rudWRayqMS

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) November 3, 2017

Speaking of smelling salts, Claude Giroux decided to incorporate them in his captaining duties to wake his team up:

Claude Giroux is doing everything he can to wake his team up. http://pic.twitter.com/i2jPR8XSNS

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) November 3, 2017

Speaking of Giroux, he scored the empty-netter to ice the win for the Flyers. He was assisted by Wayne Simmonds on the play. It was Simmonds’ 200th career assist in the NHL.

G's goal but Simmer's 200th career assist. #LetsGoFlyers http://pic.twitter.com/bb9cetNRVl

— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) November 3, 2017

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