Thursday, October 28, 2010

How's it different...?

Tonight, late, tired, post-work haze, walking home from the acursed busstop, I asked myself "What am I even doing here?"

Glanced up and saw this guy, maybe 60-65 yrs old---build and demeanor of a badass 225-pound steamfitter or master industrial plumber---rumbling along, two frisking Scottie Dogs in front of him. Did a doubletake because this man was unlike anyone swaggering down the sidewalk in the Bronx, Boston, Baltimore, Philly, Chicago, or Portland Maine: he was wearing a flowered wool skirt with a bun in his hair. That's how San Francisco is different.

Things like that lighten my heart.

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