Alice (in a text msg): Just bought dill pickle chips and beef jerky...chick at the store looked directly at my stomach to check if I was pregnant
Blondie: hahaha I'm laughing so hard right now...Wow. Only you
Alice:No fucking kidding...and I just discovered a huge wooden staircase and have no clue where I am now
Blondie: maybe you should take your beef jerky and pickle chips and have a picnic in the woods
Alice: I totally would, but the fear of homeless people is stopping me
Blondie: Share the love, they are probably hungry
Alice: Maybe I'll meet the love of my life over beef jerky and pocket change
Blondie: Ha ha, crazier things happen
Alice: Well there's a house down here with a pool and tennis court. Some girl just saw me snooping...let me meet the owner of that & I'll share my jerky
Blondie: Stop, I'm going to pee my pants
My neighborhood is a pretty nice one. In the last
three years they've redeveloped a lot of it adding new condo buildings with all kinds of stores in the bottom. There's also a lot of Italian stores around here - 2 restaurants, a bakery, the bistro. Some people call it Little Italy.
We have three parks and a toboggan run. Yup, that's right it's made specifically for tobogganing. Or maybe also to get people in wheelchairs around. Either way.
The problem lies in it's close proximity to downtown. As you can see in this artistic rendering, its simply a hop, skip and a jump across the river into downtown. And directly across that river? The largest homeless shelter in Calgary.
However, upon discovery of this pool/tennis court house, I think I need to go for another walk today. You know, just to be healthy and get exercise.
Plus I'm craving some peanut butter ice cream.
Blondie: hahaha I'm laughing so hard right now...Wow. Only you
Alice:No fucking kidding...and I just discovered a huge wooden staircase and have no clue where I am now
Blondie: maybe you should take your beef jerky and pickle chips and have a picnic in the woods
Alice: I totally would, but the fear of homeless people is stopping me
Blondie: Share the love, they are probably hungry
Alice: Maybe I'll meet the love of my life over beef jerky and pocket change
Blondie: Ha ha, crazier things happen
Alice: Well there's a house down here with a pool and tennis court. Some girl just saw me snooping...let me meet the owner of that & I'll share my jerky
Blondie: Stop, I'm going to pee my pants
My neighborhood is a pretty nice one. In the last
three years they've redeveloped a lot of it adding new condo buildings with all kinds of stores in the bottom. There's also a lot of Italian stores around here - 2 restaurants, a bakery, the bistro. Some people call it Little Italy.We have three parks and a toboggan run. Yup, that's right it's made specifically for tobogganing. Or maybe also to get people in wheelchairs around. Either way.
The problem lies in it's close proximity to downtown. As you can see in this artistic rendering, its simply a hop, skip and a jump across the river into downtown. And directly across that river? The largest homeless shelter in Calgary.
However, upon discovery of this pool/tennis court house, I think I need to go for another walk today. You know, just to be healthy and get exercise.
Plus I'm craving some peanut butter ice cream.
16 comments:
I'm telling you that those Blondie stories - word for word - would make a great comic strip. Of course you couldn't call her Blondie.
Everything was fine. You coulda left the post as it was.
But you just had to go ahead & say PB Ice Cream, didn't cha? Thanks.
So the river is basically a giant moat to keep all the homeless people out of your city? That's pretty damn smart actually.
I have a keyboard again, yay! Haha. You having strange dreams too? ;) Couldn't you make up some reason to need to knock on the door to that house? Your dog's frisbee landed in their pool, or you really love the colour of the trim around the windows and want to paint your own mansion's trim that exact same colour...
Mmmmm beef jerky and dill pickles!
Tobaggan....is that like a sled? Why am I picturing a bobsled?
Google I go.
oh you never fail to make me miss calgary.
though, in a few months (or weeks) i will remember how fucking cold i was the night that i locked myself out of my house and tried to sleep in my car. in november. in a tank top and skirt (i had just left work). i ended up knocking on a random door at 4am asking for a blanket.
hm, maybe that story needs to be blogged.
anyway - point being = I MISS CALGARY. but i do not miss the COLD.
Damn you non peanut butter allergic people!
If you're pregnant, I'd like to know about it.
Hahaha cravings, huh? I get cravings too and I'm not pregnant either. What's with that?!
You're so funny.
hahaha-- at least you'd have an awesome story to tell if you met your soulmate over beef jerky.
i LOVE dill pickle chips. i had forgotten all about them until now. now i need them. need them now!
Those texts are hilarious! And I've done the beef jerky (or turkey because, you know, it's healthy!) with something random like chocolate or ice cream!
When are those ice cream companies going to answer all my letters and make some beef jerky ice cream, saving people like you from a second trip to the store?
I can't make out what part of town that is... Bridgeland/The Bridges?
I live on the bad side of the Homeless Moat.
Dr. Z - I guess that's already taken...dammit
yllwdaises - mmm pb ice cream
Jon - Our city thought ahead
Attached - totally making up a story...
Ringleader - I know, right?!
Lyla - Lou - why? Is that some weird Canadianism?
Well-Intentioned - um ya blog that shit!
RS27 - sorry to hear about your handicap...
Ben - you should...it's yours.
Kez - thanks doll, I always get weird cravings?!
Maxie - SO true
Brookem -every one in a while I NEED dill pickle chips!
Essentially Me - Blondie is hilarious, and I totally get pregnant cravings without being pregnant
Pistols - mmm beef jerky ice cream *drools*
Erin - Ya, Bridgeland! I used to live on the bad side too - it was interesting putting bottles outside the door and having the homeless pick them up 2 seconds later!
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