Never a dull moment...
So, the 57 bus stops in front of my store. Usually this isn't anything worth talking about. However, today a lepurchaun got off the bus carrying a pot of gold with him and very casually walked over to the coffee shop as though there's no reason why a lepurchaun shouldn't be riding the downtown 57 bus to get coffee.
Well, of course. Why the fuck not?
Everyone on the block nearly broke their necks staring at him and looking rather puzzled. Then some guy in a pickup truck rolled down his window and yelled to me "DUDE! A fucking lepurchaun just got off the 57 bus!"
I guess he wanted some coffee...
I'm completely serious about this, too. A guy, about 4 feet tall with red hair and a red beard dressed in full leperchaun regalia, complete with the hat and short pants with white socks and bucked shoes, got off the bus carrying a pot of gold. He even had the weird nose and poked out chin. Afterwards, he was sitting at one of their outside tables with his pot sitting beside him doing a crossword puzzle.
That's how my day began.
Later in the afternoon, some people-- banging on upturned plastic garbage cans carrying a giant effigy of George Bush made of half-rotten tree branches and duct tape with a cardboard cut-out of his face at the top-- marched up and down South Street screaming something I couldn't understand. The noise from the banging of the trash-drums drowned out whatever it was they were saying.. Not that I have to try too hard to guess what it was. When you're carrying around a giant effigy of someone made of rotten wood, people pretty much get your point. I was hoping they'd set in on fire like you're supposed to do with your wodden effigy, but no such luck.
That's the problem with kids today... They've got no decent sense of commitment.
I think they were the anarchists from the bookstore on 5th. The anarchist bookstore-- That you can't walk into with a big backpack-- Because you might steal-- From the anarchists.
I feel the need to point that out everytime I mention the anarchists because, well, because it's funny. Like when some kid buys an anarchy symbol patch at Hot Topic, but pays tax on it.. Um.. Is the irony completely lost on them or what?
Well, of course. Why the fuck not?
Everyone on the block nearly broke their necks staring at him and looking rather puzzled. Then some guy in a pickup truck rolled down his window and yelled to me "DUDE! A fucking lepurchaun just got off the 57 bus!"
I guess he wanted some coffee...
I'm completely serious about this, too. A guy, about 4 feet tall with red hair and a red beard dressed in full leperchaun regalia, complete with the hat and short pants with white socks and bucked shoes, got off the bus carrying a pot of gold. He even had the weird nose and poked out chin. Afterwards, he was sitting at one of their outside tables with his pot sitting beside him doing a crossword puzzle.
That's how my day began.
Later in the afternoon, some people-- banging on upturned plastic garbage cans carrying a giant effigy of George Bush made of half-rotten tree branches and duct tape with a cardboard cut-out of his face at the top-- marched up and down South Street screaming something I couldn't understand. The noise from the banging of the trash-drums drowned out whatever it was they were saying.. Not that I have to try too hard to guess what it was. When you're carrying around a giant effigy of someone made of rotten wood, people pretty much get your point. I was hoping they'd set in on fire like you're supposed to do with your wodden effigy, but no such luck.
That's the problem with kids today... They've got no decent sense of commitment.
I think they were the anarchists from the bookstore on 5th. The anarchist bookstore-- That you can't walk into with a big backpack-- Because you might steal-- From the anarchists.
I feel the need to point that out everytime I mention the anarchists because, well, because it's funny. Like when some kid buys an anarchy symbol patch at Hot Topic, but pays tax on it.. Um.. Is the irony completely lost on them or what?