Super Tuesday of a different sort

[lagilman]

Voting? 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....






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...

Comments

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting those. I still can't quite believe they actually won. But I am so thrilled they did. :-)

Ruth

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

I went to Boston for the last Pats parade, and ended up with a similar vantage point. It is pretty cool. :)

Come to think of it, that was also a Mardi Gras ... in addition to the stupid asshats who thought it'd be a fun game to fling rolls of paper towels across the street, we had the girls who had skipped school flashing for beads (until the cops stopped them, anyway -- but that took a disconcertingly long time).

[lagilman]

There were people with blue and white beads, but thankfully the @sswipes did not start with that particular chant (they were yelling so much stupid shit that Bill started a "We like chants!" chant and almost got them to take it up. Oh, the joys of the easily mind-fkcued... *fang-grin*)

[delkytlar.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a J'ets fan, rather than J'nets, but your pics look great. Sounds like it was a reasonably fun time.