Good Afternoon;
The air is so heavy, thick, gray, and damp, I swear you can actually reach out, grab a handful and wad it up and chew it like gum! 100% humidity and I feel like I'm back in Florida during season...(and I wish I was.....so I guess today I'm only suffering from a "Tropical Depression"....not the clinical kind.......LOL.
Hi Lynn, thanks for coming up to the St. Thomas Starbucks this morning, as usual, you've made a gray day colorful! Can you tell by the title....or was I too subtle?................LOL!
I went out to the corner yesterday after I signed off here, I had to keep shifting locations due to changing circumstances; first ,the Baltimore Fire Dept, (Engine 13 and Ladder truck ??, from Bolton Hill), parked on Mt. Royal and North Ave. and the firefighters spread out over the intersections with their boots as buckets, collecting for some charity or another, I'm not sure what. This is not a problem, I support these heroes in all they do and some of the guys have given to me, right off the truck even! But...the one woman who decide to work the curbside where I happened to be standing, exemplified the 'ghetto attitude' that infects Baltimore, a lack of courtesy and simple decency and civility. She walks up, literally! right in front of me and stands less than a foot away blocking me from sight. Now don't get me wrong, when I saw them parking the trucks and walking up I was prepared to surrender my space to a worthy cause, but to not even look at me, or say anything, or even to bother to ask or order me to leave is just ignorant. Like I said, I was leaving anyway, having collected about $8.00 or so. I got on the light rail and went to the Camden Yards stop, where 395 and Conway St. and Howard St. meet, I was there about 35 minutes when two Baltimore City police Traffic officers, who were sitting in cars on the lot got out and put on their safety vests. They had just gotten a radio call, and a few minute later here come 3 huge tractor trailers with a motorcycle escort and being led by limos and SUVs with flashing red and blue lights, pulling in to the stadium parking lot. And..right after that, form the other direction, a bunch of floats, for the Preakness started arriving. Well, I figured, that if these cops, who I had not noticed in their cars, had sat there and not bothered me, while I collected about $11.00, I was not about to disrespect them by standing right in their faces and panhandling. i walked over to thank them and let them know that I was grateful, and that I was leaving as a courtesy returned. I think I shocked them.......they were at a loss for a minute, then acknowledged my thanks and thanked me!.........LOL.
So I got Back on the train and headed north and got off at North Ave. again, and stood on the opposite corner for about 20 minutes, the FD was gone, and left when the wind picked up to the point where my sign kept folding up on it's own, I ended up with another $6.00 in coins.
I went back out to Owing Mills on the subway and missed every connection...LOL....took me 2 & 1/2 hours to get to the Starbucks, but I had books, and was in no big hurry, and the weather was mild, it was actually kinda 'relaxating'........(a word I made up, to compete with...'conversate', and 'observating', the first one is in frequent usage on the buses and trains, and the second is lifted directly from a police report.....as in.."I was observating from a covert locality, when I saw the alleged criminal subjective perpetuating the act of criminality in question, which caused me to iniatialate the aforemention search and seize her"..........I SAW a photocopy of this..REALLY!!!)..but I digress, so..I got to the coffee shop as they were getting ready to close, and after using the bathroom to scrape of some of the road dust...(you'd be surprised how must dust is kicked up and coats you on the corner), my new friends gave me some marked out sandwiches. This was right on time, since I had not eaten all day except for the 'dumpster donuts' from the night before. and I even had money to splurge on a BaskinRobbins ice cream.....oh I paid the price today, but every once in a while I just gotta eat ice cream! So I sat at the tables outside until 11:00pm, when the bus came and went to the gas station for my nightly 'last call' bathroom break...LOL. Of course I had to try a couple dollars on the Keno, my horseshoe must be rusty or something, I have hit a streak of, not even bad luck, call it 'no luck' this week, ( which has continued this morning), so I went to sleep in my 'shack'.
Hit the Starbucks this morning, and sat 'til noon, and came here to the library, and here I sit. I guess I'll try to catch some of the Preakness crowd on the way home, maybe I'll run into a bunch of happy, lucky, (drunken) winners.......LOL!!
and..thh thh thh thaattt's all folks......see ya Monday.....Dave
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