Just another day in New Orleans
as a resident of Algiers for the first 28 years of my life, i do have a great story of running into JAckie Clarkson at the intersection of Gen. Degaulle and Rue Parc Fontaine around 1988.
I was sitting behind her at the intersection. No cars coming down Gen Degaulle and this white Cadillac was just sitting there. So a group of cars came and went, and again no CARS and just sitting there. So i honked my horn for them to GO.
The door opens and this lady gets out and approaches my car. I roll down the window and she just starts yelling at me " Do you KNOW who i am?!?!?! I AM COUNCILWOMAN JACKIE CLARKSON" - ( im like 17 at the time, so no i dont know who she was lol )
So i fire back " lady there were NO CARS in sight and you are just sitting here- and i have to be at work now"
She yells back " this is a really bad intersection and many accidents happen RIGHT HERE"
I then yelled back " Well then COUNCILWOMAN....PUT UP A RED LIGHT" and i rolled up my window.
She didnt like that comment.
Fast forward 2 years. I wad dating a gal who was clerking for Judge KK Norman ( got a great story on her too lol ) and we got invited to a fundraising event in Algiers Point. So i rent a tux, she gets dolled up and we go.
It was for Jackie Clarkson. I thought " no way she remembers me"
Yeah she did. We had to leave early. lol.