I just realized, I promised you a good story about one of the bums downtown, and I never delivered.<\/p>\n
Last week, when I was at the South Main Association meeting, one of the members took me out to the building’s back door and pointed across Mulberry to an old shed next to a dumpster. He explained that one of the local crackheads, who goes out on the streets every day and bums money from people to support his habit, lives in the shed. “He even has electricity in there,” the SMA member explained. “He has it wired up from the building next door. The landlord of the building lets him get away with it.”<\/p>\n
But it gets better.<\/p>\n
“You’re kidding,” I said. “He’s out on the streets doing his ‘help the homeless?’ line all day, when in fact he has a place to live and he even has electricity?”<\/p>\n
“Oh, yeah,” said the SMA member. “Last December, he even put up Christmas lights.”<\/p>\n
A bum with Christmas lights.<\/em><\/strong> Now I’ve heard everything.<\/p>\n (I’m sitting here, realizing I need to hit the Publish Post button, shut down the computer and get out of here or I’m going to be late to work. But it’s Tube Top Month. I can’t make a post during June without referencing tube tops in some way. But how the f&?k do I relate tube tops to a bum who puts up Christmas lights?)<\/p>\n I can’t wait until December, so I can grab my camera and head down to the South Main district and take some pics of his lights. But right now it’s June. There are currently no Christmas lights up anywhere. So I’ll have to take pictures of tube tops instead.<\/p>\n (That was awful, but it’s getting so late that I’m gonna have to do 50 down Union to get to work on time.)<\/p>\n Just checked my tracker that counts this blog’s visitors. My number of hits is well above average for this point in the day… guess the word is getting out that this is now the place to go for the latest gossip on Z-list celebrities like Master Polo.<\/p>\n Have a good Thursday, gotta run…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just realized, I promised you a good story about one of the bums downtown, and I never delivered. Last week, when I was at the South Main Association meeting, one of the members took me out to the building’s back door and pointed across Mulberry to an old shed next to a dumpster. He … Continue reading “Best downtown bum story ever”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}