Only in Chicago
Sunday January 8, 2006 – 1:15 pmAn elderly and apparently homeless woman passes me on the sidewalk today, looks me right in the eye and earnestly mumbles something. All I caught was: "Maple syrup! Sweet syrup ONLY." I smile, shrug and keep on going. WTF?!
January 8th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Maybe this will shed some light on things:
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php
BTW, it’s totally true. It happened. My olfactory senses NEVER let me down.
If I made top 10 lists, your new record would be on it for sure. Looking forward to your show in Feb!
January 9th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
My feelings are that the elderly are on the move. They’re angry, they’re tired of being ignored, and they’re not going to take it anymore. I was driving (slowly, cautiously) through a quiet neighborhood yesterday, and a kindly looking old gentleman in a suit and tweed hat stopped in his tracks on the sidewalk, scowled directly at me, and then flipped me off. I think it’s first time I’ve gotten the finger by anyone outside my age group.
Something’s up.
January 9th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Dear Edith,
I’m going to be in Chicago, to read from "Down the Rat Hole" this Wednesday (1/11) at Women & Children 1st. I will Dress Warmly and be on the lookout for mutterings of Maple Syrup. Since Chicago is on my tour, I hope Portland will be on your tour!
best wishes,
the other Edith
January 9th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
Lucky you! ;-) April 2nd, White Eagle Saloon
January 10th, 2006 at 3:03 am
I’m way past the days when I would have fellas slow down and whistle or yell things at me (because of my looks…LOL!) – but I’ve found that guys in vans sometimes yell nonsensical things at me (and my family, too!) while we walk on the sidewalk. I think it may have something to do with the crystal meth craze (??) People have so much energy from taking meth (possibly) they just fling non-sequitors at each other randomly. My sis in Florida has this happen to her, too…and she’s 52
Maybe maple syrup is a code phrase for drugs (??)
Happy New Year to everyone reading
Hope all is well
cold in Missouri, at least this part of the state
looking forward to an early Spring
Lyn
January 10th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Yeah but she was like 70 years old…!? Maybe I’m naive but I kinda doubt that crystal meth will be involved in our upcoming war with the elderly…
January 10th, 2006 at 9:29 am
It begins!
An 89 year old lady just beat the shingles out of a robber in Canada.
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=c3e86ba9-d63e-493c-aa3e-391e90cd4b0c
January 10th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Laura… I’m scared…
January 10th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
I’m going to start carrying around licorice allsorts as a sort of diplomatic shield to ward off the thousand-flying-fist attacks of the geriatric terror squads.
I bring allsorts and I bring them in peace!
January 10th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Worther’s Originals might also be good to have, because if the elderly don’t want them, then you still have something hard to throw at them.
January 11th, 2006 at 3:01 am
I suspect what she really said was:
"Edith! I don’t want to be a man about it!".