Repo man for Cablevision in Brooklyn. You know how it go...peeps lose they job, on welfare and cant/dont/wont pay the bill...them folx who jury rig their service? After 3,4 months go by Cablevision want they shit back. Imagine going into the Pink Houses, Marcy Houses, Roosevelt PJs, all them units they got stacked block to block around Sutter, Blake, Dumont, Livonia, Rockaway, Mother Gaston (Stone) in Brownsville, the joints over on Albany, Troy, Bergen, and Park, the low risers on Ralph, Bergen, Rochester and Pacific, the Breevoort Pubs on Fulton, Ralph, Patchen and Chauncey, deep into Bushwick on Knickerbocker all the way out to Linden Blvd and Drew and in between around Pitkin and Cleveland and you tryin to get back somethin that's now like a family heirloom sittin atop the TV? With your car. No fixed salary. Total commission. 7 days a week. Sun up to sun down. Dogs in front yards, crackheads on corners, gangs lookin you over flashing signs and congregating in the bldg lobby, elevators that dont work. Folx who think the boxes are theirs cause they been payin for 10 years. Boxes loaded with roaches. Welfare moms with 5 kids and aint cleaned they apt since the last time they had a man up in there. Being threatened with lye, boiling water, knives, and bruhs who looked like they play linebacker for the Giants AND his brother!
Made an average of $800 a week, all on commission according to how many boxes and remotes I collected. I lasted exactly 2 months. Last straw was the the linebacker and his brother with a knife on the 11th floor in the tower on Saratoga and Prospect. They chased my ass down 11 flights out onto Prospect, down to damn near Howard Ave before they gave up. My car was parked across from the tower on Prospect. I said fuck dat shit and took the bus home. Left it sitting there til the next day