Updates and crazy drunk people downtown.

Hello all! Yes it has been a while. Miss me? Well, judging by the lack of comments I have to assume most people have switched their attention to Facebook. I have too, but I still want to keep a blog, so regardless of whether or not I get comments, I'm gonna blog anyways dammit. I'm still working like a mofo, and now that the Zoo is closed for the summer, I only have the odd catering job to do there and now I have the majority of my hours coming from my job downtown. I have finally gotten the hang of it, and I do love my work dearly. Plus, I work with an awesome staff, who are super nice, and went out of their ways to make me feel at home there, so that makes me happy. I am getting to know the regulars, and they seemed to have accepted me too. So all is good.
Since my hours have increased at the job downtown, I've seen some interesting characters, plus a couple of disturbing ones. For instance, last week, some tall Native guy comes in and asks my boss if he could have a glass of water. Naturally my boss said no...not because he was Native, but he was a fella that frequented the other side of the street, and was a known drug and chemical abuser. Plus, we aren't going to give someone water if they aren't going to buy anything you know? He stands there silent for a second, then shouts out (heedless to the fact a small child was in his prescence)"You're not gonna give me any fuckin water?! You want to get beat up?" My boss ignored him and the guy left. I looked to the back of the shop to see a police officer get up abruptly from his morning cup of coffee and go off after the dude. A short time later I see a paddy wagon heading down the street. Police vehicles are almost a daily occurance on 5th street, by the way. Then there was a guy the next day who kept walking past the front door, and looking in here and there. Then the guy comes in, and grabs some spoons and takes off, with my boss in hot pursuit. She catches him and makes him hand over the spoons, and she tells him hes not to come around the business again. We all had a good laugh over it. I thought it was good that buddy didn't run cause my boss runs marathons. Hilarious.
Then occasionally we see a Native guy who comes in for coffee, and he'll sit by himself, and then he'll start talking under his reath, but by his actions it looks like hes having a conversation with someone in the empty chair in front of him. I can never hear what he says, but the guy is harmless, and the conversations hes having with his invisible friend seem, on the outside, pretty deep, and then hes done and he leaves.
Anyhoo..just wanted to share all that with you. I start an 11 day stretch downtown, so I'm sure that I'll see lots of interesting things to share with you. If you ever do get a chance to go to Lethbridge, and somehow find yourself on 5th St. S, don't bother lighting a smoke..that is if you do smoke. Always someone bumming smokes off you, and if you say you're smoking your last one, they'll boldly ask to have the rest of it. Pisses me off actually, but I don't say anything. If Pizzaslinger was here she'd tell the deadbeat to buy their own, and launch into a tirade of how she works to buy her own, and then..if buddy still doesn't get the message, she'd do a fancy yet deadly spinning flying outward crescent kick, knock the smoke buddy just bummed, catch it on landing and deftly shove it up buddy's nostril. By the by, Pizzaslinger enjoyed her advanced training with the pizza Master and is now taking a bit of a Sabbatical. She says she'll come back when she feelslike it, which may be sooner than you think. God, I just love my alter ego. I can ust see her now, kicking asses all over the world, and creating order in the midst of chaos with a few well-placed kicks and snappy comebacks. She'll be back.That I promise you.
At any rate, that is my post. The only blogger question I have for now is...where are you? Time for a roll call. If you haven't found me by now, I will assume it if you haven't posted a comment. If you do happen by, say hello. Don't be a stranger. Cheers!