you really can't revisit the past
Aug 23, 2006 21:17:30 GMT
Post by rickcr42 on Aug 23, 2006 21:17:30 GMT
so I did a thing I have not done in years which is blow the day off from work and cruise the town on foot from end to end and while cool on some levels a BIG mistake on others.
First off I could not even deal with a good 90% of the main street establishments because I could not find anyone who understood the english language.Buying anything requiring any help at all a total wash.I then entered a local pub that I had been going to on and off for over thirty years (though not in recent years it being a bit out of my usual path) and again walked out in disgust when the bar person could not even understand enough english to make me a cocktail.I even tried pointing and pantomime.Playing chrades to get a cold drink on a hot days is juast WRONG so i stepped.......
While cruising I am bumping into character after character saying "hey Rick,long time no see,how you been" that for the life of me I could not recognize until a breif discussion it comes out that back in the day we hung out in the same crew yet here they were unrecognized sidewalk commandos,burnt out and strung out.
DAMN ! Who knew when we were young and dumb that so many would be left behind ? Worn out,aged beyond the actual years that have passed and I was about as uncomfortable as a human could be be even talking to these persons looking for the escape hatch while trying to be civil for old times sake.Persons I could not avoid there being a single main strip that I walked from south to north then back again which is the main street in town.
Kinda proof that heroin use in on the rise here in sunny Connecticut,that no one really cares they being all over the main streets sitting right down on the sidewalk many times (they took out the benches years ago thinking the junkies would leave so no old peple have no where to rest between store ) and surprisingly many are first time users in recent times even though my age and able to avoid it's grip all these long years.
We hung tough back in the day doing every chemical known to humans it being a 24/7 party and a sexual marathon but some of us grew up and moved on while others stayed behind and as they got older it is not funny any more.What a fkn waste........
BTW-had to get that "cocktail" at home where english is still the language of choice and I REFUSE to learn to speak a foreign language to communicate in my own country so it looks like I am caught out in the downtown area and it will get worse before it gets better so off the list of "things to do on a nice summer day when not working"
sucks but is what it is...............................
First off I could not even deal with a good 90% of the main street establishments because I could not find anyone who understood the english language.Buying anything requiring any help at all a total wash.I then entered a local pub that I had been going to on and off for over thirty years (though not in recent years it being a bit out of my usual path) and again walked out in disgust when the bar person could not even understand enough english to make me a cocktail.I even tried pointing and pantomime.Playing chrades to get a cold drink on a hot days is juast WRONG so i stepped.......
While cruising I am bumping into character after character saying "hey Rick,long time no see,how you been" that for the life of me I could not recognize until a breif discussion it comes out that back in the day we hung out in the same crew yet here they were unrecognized sidewalk commandos,burnt out and strung out.
DAMN ! Who knew when we were young and dumb that so many would be left behind ? Worn out,aged beyond the actual years that have passed and I was about as uncomfortable as a human could be be even talking to these persons looking for the escape hatch while trying to be civil for old times sake.Persons I could not avoid there being a single main strip that I walked from south to north then back again which is the main street in town.
Kinda proof that heroin use in on the rise here in sunny Connecticut,that no one really cares they being all over the main streets sitting right down on the sidewalk many times (they took out the benches years ago thinking the junkies would leave so no old peple have no where to rest between store ) and surprisingly many are first time users in recent times even though my age and able to avoid it's grip all these long years.
We hung tough back in the day doing every chemical known to humans it being a 24/7 party and a sexual marathon but some of us grew up and moved on while others stayed behind and as they got older it is not funny any more.What a fkn waste........
BTW-had to get that "cocktail" at home where english is still the language of choice and I REFUSE to learn to speak a foreign language to communicate in my own country so it looks like I am caught out in the downtown area and it will get worse before it gets better so off the list of "things to do on a nice summer day when not working"
sucks but is what it is...............................