Riding the Covid-19
BNormal, Illinois
April 28, 2020
I just got back from Kroger’s after I first walked downtown to
drop off recycling, and then turned around to go north past the dollar store to
Kroger’s. I had a little adventure when I stopped at a point more than hallway
back to wait for the bus because I was tired:
A little but muscular black guy in a tank top and a pork pie
hat, to whom I have given a little money in the past, was talking nonstop to a
nice plain young black woman, and she really didn’t pay much attention to him
because he was just an old guy, blabbering and jabbering. He is in good shape,
though. He was talking and talking and dancing around a little. I’m sure he
does very little work but is just so charming and funny that he gets along and
gets by and enjoys life. I had a red bandanna on my face because I put it on to
go into Walgreen’s to see if they had any fresh flowers, but they didn’t.
However, I had stopped to take a picture of some really nice tulips among some nice irises.
Well, the guy looked at me with my bank robber bandana, and he
said, “Oh man! The last time I seen something like that, he was goin’ ‘Hiyo
Silver!’”
I said, “Uh-huh, that’s right.” And he said, “Yep!”
So then the bus came and the girl and I went in via the back
door, as they don’t allow people to enter the front door to spare the driver
from Covid Cooties. I took a seat near the front, which was actually blocked
from the driver another 15 feet, it seemed. There was a female passenger across
from me wearing a surgical type mask and she said, “Hello! And how are you! You
oughta be wearing a tank top!” It was pretty warm, and I had felt the sweat run
down my back, and I had just seen the muscular brown man with his pork pie hat
and his tank top and had thought he looked pretty comfortable, so I said, “Maybe
I should be.” Then I saw that she was sort of a hippie throwback type of street
person and she was wearing a colorful rainbow or Jamaican style of colors and
she also had cute little earrings.
I said, “Those are nice earrings, and she said, “Yep – I wear
those so they can identify me when I’m dead.” I said, “That’s nice – very nice.
Now you take care and have a nice day.” Yes,” she said, “and the same to you!”
So, as per usual, it is a good day to be alive in America:
https://youtu.be/_3IICY5NKC0
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