I really did not mean for this blog to be about odors in my cab, but it turns out I wrote that one post a little too early. On Saturday morning, I went to go pick up a lady at a nursing home, and she was a bag lady. You know, big bags of random stuff, a little cart to carry them, and a cane, all of which I dutifully loaded in the trunk. She was heavily made up, but not like the drag queen; more like a person who has no idea how much make up she is putting on. Then I took her to the Safeway around the corner.
I feel kinda bad saying this, but she reeked of, well, piss. I definitely opened the windows immediately and practically stuck my head out. Nothing a little febreeze couldn't take care of afterwards, though! She was perfectly pleasant - we talked about how nice the weather was, she mentioned that she usually walks, but not that day for whatever reason. I guess I don't understand the bag lady economy particularly well, but since when do bag ladies take cabs? And why would she bother bringing all of her stuff with her to the supermarket?
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Think of bag ladies as turtles, like a shell, they have to carry their homes with them. Is a turtle without a shell homeless or naked? I would venture to say that a bag lady without her bags is both homeless and naked.
ReplyDeleteHOLY Sh*t! Did you pick this lady up from the Lockwood House up near Upton Hill and take her to the Safeway at Willston Center @ Route 50 and Patrick Henry?
ReplyDeleteIf so, that lady has been hanging out at that Safeway with ridiculous amounts of makeup and and a bunch of random bags since I was like 8 years old, when I used to live in that neighborhood. I can't believe 20+ years later she's still there! She looked super old when I was a kid, I wonder how old she is now...wow, talk about a flashback, I used to be kind of scared of her...