NO WE DON'T HAVE A CIGARETTE

An old friend who has had some horrendous health issues in the past few years who lives one block away was waiting at the bus stop to go up two blocks. So that he could go over two blocks. To the Trader Joe's at California and Hyde, where the Cala Market used to be.
It' a slope and invalid thing.
Plus swelling.

He states that this neighborhood isn't our neighborhood anymore. And he's right. For him, it's that a good burrito is hard to find, and there are fewer Gay bars. For me, Chinese bakeries, Chinese eateries, and grocery stores. And the one Mexican restaurant within a few blocks used to have competition.
There are more hipsters.


But what really highlights the change is that bus stop.

There didn't used to always be bums and nuts there.


I don't mind the fat Hispanic, he's cheerful and harmless, but the old black drunk is always filthy and a pest, so is the angry-looking white insane guy with the box of paints, the pigtailed dude on behaviourial medication seriously freaks out everyone, and the old black homosexual telling everyone about the government wanting to put fingers up their ass till they like it seriously has got to go.

Little kids and old folks use that bus stop.

Plus mommies and infants.



It used to be their neighborhood.




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