Text chat with my old friend Kurt Snotrockets after fist bumping Young Mister Snotrockets out in the Street
The following occurred in the City of Seattle on Monday the 18th of April 2022:
Kurt: Hey, Sir William! Still blowing snot after a cold. Life is good.
Me: Dude! That’s nasty! LOL
Aye, I fistbumped a strung out young druggie with enormous snot rockets reaching down thru his red moustache & beard at the bus stop last week who was posturing around like a ruff & tuff gorilla wearing only red & black plaid pajamas with dingy Superman pants pulled up over them & a gray T-shirt and it was cold as Charles Dickens with the threat of snow flurries in the air. Then when I looked the scary guy in the eyes above his snot rockets, I glimpsed sadness & bafflement & fear in his soul. Or were his eyes mirroring mine?
Kurt: Excellently put. Great writing William.
But when fist-bumping him did your knuckles get slimy ?
Me: Thanks. And no, they didn’t. Mr. Snotrockets held his fists out into the cold like a big boss scaredy cat gorilla in the Congo so they were chalky, purple, & icy. He was lost in inner space.
Sent from my iPhone, yuppers.
Felt sad there wasn’t much more I could do for the addled young man on the streets beyond fistbumping him out of some uncomfortable acknowledgement of his humanity. These things always seem to happen when I’m in hurry to or from work. Long ago I learned to stop dolling out dollars and coins to beggars on the street. Many of the people I know who courageously welcomed homeless strangers into their homes regretted it as the strangers broke things and stole items from around the house. In once case a homeless man bragged to my friend Ed about how much he shoplifted after Ed bought him groceries. Ed took his ass back down to the Safeway store and had the homeless thief return the goods. I’m sure other people have better ideas and proven suggestions and might even chastise me. Great. Get outside and go do your thing now.
William Dudley Bass
Monday 18 April 2022
Friday 28 July 2023
Shoreline/Seattle, Washington
USA
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