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Rain, Photos, Beggars
We had quite a bit of rain today, enough to flood the river area, the, um, flood plain. I went out with my Nikon FE2 and trusty 50mm lens to photograph the water. I do need to get one of those new-fangled digital cameras so I can put my photos up on the blog as I take them and write about them, rather than at least a week later.
In my wanderings downtown, I always seem to get asked for “spare change” by someone. Generally this happens in busy places with lots of pedestrian traffic, like Wisconsin Avenue by the mall. Generally when I’m wandering through the post-industrial wastelands no one bothers me. Indeed, no on is there to bother but me and hence no one hangs around looking for people to bother. I don’t normally get hit up for change near home, but today I did. A large individual, though almost everyone appears large to me, walked up to me in a cheerful manner and explained that he ran out of gas, needed some money, didn’t have his driver’s license, and had been smoking weed, which he helpfully explained is marijuana, in case I turned out to be as naive as I look. I don’t know what to think of his story of needing gas money, but I do believe the marijuana part. If he was not on some kind of drug, would he have walked up to the first total stranger he saw who was carrying a large SLR camera and announced that he was using an illegal drug?
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