I was headed for the train, on third and Irving, which was a hill. And, being San Francisco, this mean the hill rose at approximately 90 degrees from the group. It’s pretty steep. I was walking down, and towards the bottom I see him.

A male youth. Perhaps 16. Dressed in shorts and ‘tennies’ (as the kids today call em). He look around, took a breath, than ran full speed up the hill. I watch him (he slowed near the top), then looked down at myself, growing slightly older, and thought to myself : Kids today are stupid.

I mean, why run up a hill? Didn’t he know there was an elevator just inside the building? Surely he must have known he would be tired – he hunched over when he got to the top, catching his breath. That’s the problem with kids today – they don’t think things though. Instead of saying ‘hmmmm, I wonder if there’s a better way’, they just run up hills with no regards to common sense.

Then, to make matters worse – he walked back down the hill. It’s like he ran up the hill just to do it – with no other purpose at all.

Idiot.

I recently found myself with a desire to feed the squirrels. So, I grabbed my nuts and headed off to the park. It was a sunny day, so I found a bench in the shade and proceeded to feed them. As any of you who have done the same know, some of them get comfortable pretty quickly. In fact, there was one who eventually perched on my knee, and just stayed there. He’d eat a nut, then look at me as if to say ‘next!’

Well, as I sat there, squirrel on me knee, a group of people passed and I heard one of them refer to me as ‘the squirrel guy’.

I’m not sure how to feel about that. :/

My picture links had broken, so I finally got around to fixing them (eyes right). I’ll eventually add more pictures when I have the chance.