OT - City living (was:Hot chana dal with potatoes (was How Day Seven went)

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> I love having real *neighborhood* -- even the

> homeless people ask James where I am when he's out walking alone. I

> love the sheer aliveness of the place.

 

I thought those kind of things only happened to me. There's a steady

bunch of homeless guys who hang around the laundromat and it seems there

are different people on different days. When I switched laundry day from

Wednesday to Thursday I made friends with the new gang, and a few weeks

ago hit the place on Wednesday again and got a warm " welcome back " from

my " regulars. " The next week I didn't go until Thursday again and the

new gang asked where I was the week before!

 

Now that the warmer weather is here I'll be hitting the place twice a

week so besides my Thursday group I'll see the Monday people again for

the first time since last summer. I wonder how many of them are still

around.

 

I drive my husband crazy with my " tales of the street people " each week.

Some of the stories I hear could fill an issue of Weird NJ magazine.

http://www.weirdnj.com

 

 

Sue in NJ