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Yesterday, while enjoying a cheap-but-good Kung Pao Chicken lunch at a hole-in-the-wall place in Boystown called Canton Express, a black man came in and approached the Chinese woman who is part of the mom-and-pop duo who owns the place. He was apparently looking for work: "Do you have any flyers you need passed out to the neighborhood?" he asked. "You want Crab Rangoon?" she replied in her charming broken English, apparently mishearing him. "No... I said do you have any flyers you need passed out around the neighborhood? I can pass them out for you. How much do you think it's worth?" "I can't say... I don't know. How much do you want?" "I could pass out a hundred, door to door, for say, fifteen dollars?" (At this point, I resisted the urge to interject, "Give me ten and I'll do it." Heh. But I kept quiet and continued eating.) "How do I know you won't throw away in garbage?" "I see what you're saying. You want to know how you'll know I'll do the work. I could pass them out door to door, to the apartments around the neighborhood." "Sorry. Can't do it." Well, I thought it was interesting. ~~~~~~~~~I've been having it in my mind to get to bed earlier at night, but somehow haven't been able to act on it yet. Yesterday I was kept up because, in the wee hours of the morning, as luck would have it, while surfing the internet I stumbled across a list of articles my old high-school friend Jim B. wrote... and I just had to read them. I found one article particularly interesting. It was titled "Is Hatred a Basic Human Need?" and in the article Jim briefly alluded to the homosexuality issue. This is what he wrote: Bigotry is not a value. It has no value. Parents, your daughter is going to marry that other-race person. Maybe even another female! You can choose to accept this, or you can lose your daughter. If you choose to lose your daughter, you are an ass. And I shall tell you that to your face. I must say, I'm impressed. He sure has come a long way since back in high school when he spread around all kinds of rumors about me, just for spite. ~~~~~~~~~After showering today I found myself in my living/dining room combo stark naked and did a little posing in front of my one dining-room wall which is completely mirrored top to bottom. Dang! In a full frontal view, and if I suck in my stomach just a little, I still look pretty damned sexy for a dude who's fast closing in on fifty. I found that very reassuring. I'm going to have to take some new pics and get them online so I can pick up guys... heh.
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