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2009-11-23T20:04:38.045-08:00

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I get angry at the loud-phone-talker chick because...

2009-06-23T09:35:12.225-07:00

I get angry at the loud-phone-talker chick because she lacks goodwill (something I starve for these days). On one hand, I wanna poke her in the eye just to wake her up. On the other hand, I'm afraid if I do, I'll dislodge the speck in hers and lose sight of the log in my own.

People suck sometimes, that's fer sure. I remember actually being on the phone with my older brother (King of All Rednecks) once when he was drunk and waiting in a Whataburger drive-thru. He'd just closed down the local country dancehall. A panhandler came up to him in the drive-thru and asked for some money. My brother knocked on the drive-thru window and handed over $5 with an order for a cheeseburger. And his parting words as he drove away were, "AND DON'T YOU GIVE THAT NI**ER THE CHANGE!!!!". It's the crazy dichotomy of virtuous example vs. teaching virtue. Unfortunately, we feel like we need to tie them together when just the example would suffice.

Sorry for the long comment. I coulda just typed "I'm with you". Diarrhea of the keyboard today.

Most people ARE totally decent about it, and our b...

2009-06-09T15:16:18.887-07:00

Most people ARE totally decent about it, and our buskers are unparalleled in their politesse. Sorry - I guess I got carried away with my "Hey, I'm not into panhandling either" message and sounded pretty hard on them in general. I meant to say that I'm troubled by people asking for money more because of the emotional stuff around it (feeling bad for them, impatience with other people being so tough on the homeless, sometimes getting screamed at/spit on, etc.). People have the legal right to be homeless and to ask for money, and I agree with that and would fight to uphold those rights if need be. But if the money-requesting is badly done, IMO (stupid composition of a back story, aggression and the like), panhandlers are fair game in my blog.

I'm not hating on the panhandlers, nuh-uh. I'm hating on the haters and the generally ungracious. Sorry if that was unclear.

Cerise I was in your fair city on Saturday and was...

2009-06-03T17:07:53.052-07:00

Cerise I was in your fair city on Saturday and was struck by the fact that though I saw many people who might be labeled "homeless" none of them asked me for money, I wonder if I look that unapproachable or was it that I was with my wife and adult daughter(who we were visiting).
The attitude of the person you refer it is likely not uncommon but the brazenness of her phone etiquette is maddening,
My daughter says she finds most those who ask pretty decent about it. She lives by the Seattle Center so maybe they have a different style in that area.
Anyway I did really enjoy the city and what's this talk about Seattle being gray and cool. It was hot!

BTW if you are wondering who the heck I am- I am a friend of Mike over at Addison Rd.