"YOU want money from ME?"

Like Baltimore, the panhandlers are everywhere.  I met one man where he and his wife have made a career of panhandling.  He makes one to two hundred a day, his wife has made up to 300 a day!

But, please, I cannot believe you are asking me for money.  First of all, I am out of cash by about the 10th of the month, and the sheer fact that you panhandle makes it extremely likely that you are better off than me.

I do not carry cash by the way.

One woman who certainly needs to better her shtick, told me she needed bus money to get to the Wal Mart.

Excuse me, but if you don't have money for the bus then what exactly do you plan to buy at the wal mart?

Most of the time, the panhandlers, like the thousands who keep asking me if I am registered to vote, are getting the silent treatment from me.

Many are drunk which makes me feel unsafe in their presence.

Yesterday, when I crossed the street to avoid one, he followed me.  He called me a "racist ni##$%!"

I'm sure I've been called alot of things in my life, but this is the first time I have been called the n word!

Peter Frampton Do You Feel Like We Do Midnight Special 1975 FULL

"Aren't there ANY decent public restrooms?"

If your homeless, or carless and out all day you know the importance of finding a decent public bathroom.  Denny's* grocery, is not one of them.  It typically smells so bad that you have to hold your nose the whole time you are in there.  But even if it's relatively clean there's often drama with trying to use this bathroom.

Yesterday, (there are 2 stalls-and I'd like to say this kind of scenario is unusual but it isn't)  there is a woman lying on the floor of the handicapped stall, and then the 2nd stall is locked but there isn't anyone in it.

I assumed the woman in the handicapped stall was masturbating.........I went to ask a clerk if she could open the other stall for me, and that there is a woman on the floor.

I'm here to eat lunch at the deli, and the clerk says to me "Oh, it's nothing to worry about-she's just pregnant and vomiting"

(You know I really didn't need to know that, I just want the damn bathroom)

In Mountain Town, the 2 best public bathrooms are at the KFC and at the Subway.

KFC has enough room in the woman's stall to hold a 50'th birthday and disco party!

Subway , in the winter, is heated to about 90, so it's a great place to warm up, wash up, etc................................

So now u know where to use the restroom if you come to Mountain Town!

Soul Train 1973 / 74

Adult Adoptees

I didn't expect to learn anything by seeing this video, that I didn't already know; but I did. I learned that I was "lucky" because when I did my search the records were not closed. Of course you have to wait until your 18, but they did open the records to me right away. So apparently this varies from state to state and I did not know that.

"Since leaving MD"

I just tried, maybe, the 6th clinic, since I've been in Mountain Town.  I filled out alot of paperwork, waited the 3 weeks for the appt. , got in there just to be turned away, again.  I told her that I know that your clinic is the only one in town willing to prescribe opoids.

I said, I'd like to work part time, but who is going to hire someone who is grimacing in pain and can barely walk?  I just met "lucy" a patient of yours and she said that you are willing to take chronic pain patients.

She replied, "Actually, I don't have alot of experience with people who have serious cases of fibromyalgia like you do, and I hate to tell you this, but we just stopped prescribing opiods 2 months ago.  I'm going to have to refer you out.

Boy is this dismal I said.

The health care situation in this town is getting very bad she replied.  Especially with the state cuts.  But I will make a bunch of calls and see if I can get you the referals and practitioner that you need. 

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My big accomplishment each day is bathing and dressing.  I do leave the house each day, but walking is a big problem.  When I meet others living with this kind of pain they tell me that they don't even leave the house more than a couple of times a month!

"Part 2-retail hell/at the mal wart"

Me-"My birth certificate isn't valid i.d.?!"  (Is she f#$in' kidding me?!)

Me-"Get me the manager of the store please"

her-"he isn't here"

Me-"Then get me the mgr. of the front end"

So she get's L. her supervisor.  I explain that the transaction was ok'ed at 11, and now they are telling me they aren't going to do it.

L-"That's right.  You don't have proper i.d.!

Me-"What does that mean?"

L-"you don't have i.d. for this state!"

Me-"Get me your supervisor"

He takes 15 min. hangs around the photo dept goofing off, and I have know idea if he is coming back.  I ask a clerk if he's coming back, yes, supposedly he is.  I wonder y he is making a call, rather then letting me talk to said supervisor over the phone........................

He comes back, and I tell him that i am not leaving the customer service desk, until your company gives me what u promised.

He said "I'll help you for today but we broke rules for you and you should be grateful."

i said "Thank you for doing this, but, the way I was treated is unacceptable.  How do I file a grievance?"

He said "We don't have any grievance forms left, but I'll just tell my supe what u said"

(No, he won't)  I need the name and phone # of your supe. so I can tell them the way "managers" are treating the customers............................................

(I hate that all I do is fight.  But in this society you fight or you die)