Saturday, March 18, 2006

St. Drunkard's Day

So I went downtown for St. Patrick's day yesterday. It is amazing (and somewhat frightening) to see so many drunken folks in such high concentration. Most of the people seem to be of early to late college age. In other words, tadpoles. Man, I wouldn't go back to that time of my life for anything...except maybe my 6-pack abs. You know the scene: lots of staggering, over-eating, yelling-for-no-apparent reason, ridiculously dressed 21 year-olds. Anyway, I generally find the scene amusing on some level. It's sort of like standing at the brink of a raging river: you are compelled to jump in but logic tells you that instant death awaits. The most interesting part of the day was the ride downtown on the RAPID. It was heartening (even for just a day) to see so many folks using public transportation. It was almost as if I was living in a real, living and breathing city. Maybe a few of those people will think that the experience was cool (and convenient) and keep using the trains.

Probably not though...

3 comments:

Russ said...

You should have swung by my office. i was looking for someone to hang out with.

welcome2europa said...

Ya know...I completely forgot about that....that would have been great....I was only down there for about 2 hrs then I had to boogie...

welcome2europa said...

Amen bro...