Narrator quotes from Everybody Hates Chris

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Did I just get mugged from a window?

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For most of my life, I'd never had a friend stay over at my house.

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While my father set off for Sin City, I showed Greg around the original Sin City, Bed-Stuy.

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Not just his deposit, everybody's deposit.

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Eventually, the phone company started hangin' up on my father.

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Back at home, Greg and I were havin' our own stand-off, without the guns and the masculinity.

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Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, my dad rolled the dice tryin' to reason with a madman.

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My dad had turned into Al Cowlings, and he didn't even know it.

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If my dad were alive to see the price of gas today, it'd kill him.

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By 1986, I'd been workin' at Doc's for three years. Outside of gettin' robbed four times, sick on the pickles three times, and a double hernia, it was the single greatest job I ever had.

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I tried to get minimum wage while my father tried to get minimum sleep.

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If I developed a drug problem, my next job might be President.

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My mother imagined herself in the Eiffel Tower, the helicopter, and the black smacker.

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While my mother got a dye job, I went to get a job-job.

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This was the first restaurant in Bed-Stuy without a bulletproof window. It was the bulletproof fish place, then the bulletproof salad bar, and the bulletproof hot dog stand.