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Super Tuesday of a different sort
Feb. 5th, 2008 05:13 pmVoting? Yeah, there was some of that. There was also a ticker tape parade, and lo I did go to it, despite my well-founded distrust of crowds, and especially sports crowds.
It was a great deal of fun, actually, even allowing for the @sswipes behind us who thought throwing each other around in a crowd would be fun (and then got snitty with the cops who came over and told them to cut it out or get locked up and miss the parade). Yay for it not raining, and yay for getting there early enough to get a spot right up against the barricades! I wasn't quite close enough to reach out and touch the trophy as it went past, but if I'd lunged forward....
( I took some photos, but unless you're a J'nts fan they're probably pretty boring. A sampling... )
Many thanks to Bill E, whose 6'much" ran interference for my 5'few" as the crowd got thicker and rowdier (my calm but heartfelt "if you hit me with that elbow again I'll hit back, and it won't be in the face" seemed to have cowed the youth in question enough so that I remained unmolested after that).
The after-parade was actually more dangerous -- it seemed like every street was blocked off, funneling us all toward City Hall, which was blocked off as well for speeches and whatnot. The cops were trying to be helpful but there was only so much they could do. I got myself back to Riverdale eventually and had a late lunch in my local diner (yay! I have a local diner again!) while working on a client manuscript. Tonight, more work. And thus is the hooky-playing guilt assuaged...
It was a great deal of fun, actually, even allowing for the @sswipes behind us who thought throwing each other around in a crowd would be fun (and then got snitty with the cops who came over and told them to cut it out or get locked up and miss the parade). Yay for it not raining, and yay for getting there early enough to get a spot right up against the barricades! I wasn't quite close enough to reach out and touch the trophy as it went past, but if I'd lunged forward....
( I took some photos, but unless you're a J'nts fan they're probably pretty boring. A sampling... )
Many thanks to Bill E, whose 6'much" ran interference for my 5'few" as the crowd got thicker and rowdier (my calm but heartfelt "if you hit me with that elbow again I'll hit back, and it won't be in the face" seemed to have cowed the youth in question enough so that I remained unmolested after that).
The after-parade was actually more dangerous -- it seemed like every street was blocked off, funneling us all toward City Hall, which was blocked off as well for speeches and whatnot. The cops were trying to be helpful but there was only so much they could do. I got myself back to Riverdale eventually and had a late lunch in my local diner (yay! I have a local diner again!) while working on a client manuscript. Tonight, more work. And thus is the hooky-playing guilt assuaged...
