New Orleans Cat Fight.

 I will never forget that time Susan and Nelly got in a cat fight outside the Holy Ground on Canal Street.  I know I'm not supposed to describe two women fighting as a cat fight but they were screeching and hissing and scratching at each other.  That's what it was like.  These things happen.

I'm not going to bore you with the particulars.  I'll cut to the climax of the fight.

Susan ripped Nelly's wig off her head and threw it into the middle of Canal Street-----and, then----then, THE STREETCAR RAN OVER THE WIG! 

That really made Nelly mad and she took it out on Susan.  They were on the ground wrestling over the tree roots.  That couldn't have been comfortable.  

Some people off to the side were making bets.  There are a few of those types in every crowd.  Most of us were trying to talk them down.  A few tried to intervene and break it up but there was no getting between those two and their fists of fury.  It went on for about ten minutes after the wig episode until NOPD showed up.

The sirens and the lights calmed the combatants down.  It was about time.

Nobody wanted to press charges and, as it turned out, no real laws had been broken, so the police left without incident after determining the non-severity of the disturbance.  Susan and Nelly have known each other for a long time.  They went to school in Chalmette together.  Now, they are roommates on Cleveland Street.  They share half of a shotgun.

Susan and Nelly were at the Holy Ground that night because it was the semi-monthly meeting of the Black Cat Magic Club of New Orleans.  Susan and Nelly aren't full members.  They are supernumeraries.  After that fight, I doubt they'll be awarded full membership anytime soon.

I've never seen Susan and Nelly fight like that since then.  Who knows what set them off.  I wasn't there for the beginning.  I was playing darts in the back when the call went out that there was a Black Cat fight outside.  

You never know what's going to happen on any given day in this wonderful city we call home.  It's all good when it's all done.

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