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honeysuckle razorwire

…drown me as deep as you please, but don’t throw me in that briar patch.

i want to tell the story about how taurus got a reverse motorboat from an old lady at mary mac’s tea room but that will have to wait until after i put this picture up for the kid

Yesterday*, Taurus** and the Kid and I walked from the ice cream factory to the Colonel’s that’s a couple of blocks past the Ponce De Leon hotel or about a half mile up from the Claremont Lounge if that helps you get your bearings better.  It being a Friday at the end of a busy week we had decided to grab a few of the recently released double downs as a sort of lunch time culinary cliff jumping exercise.

I was cracking up because Taurus was threatening to get a grilled double down instead of a deep fried one like that was even an option.  Of course, when we got to the Colonel’s it had a sign in the window that said, “Closed for the Holidays,” which was just about perfect. If the ice cream factory ever goes out of business, I am going to make sure and put up a “Closed for the Holidays” sign before I leave.

On the way back to work we passed a Windy’s, so the Kid, who is an engineering student, made us go in so he could put together this hot rod (pictured above) from the components of two stock chicken club sandwiches.  He was very proud of it, so he made me take this picture. His verdict was a terse declaration that it was “very filling.” I asked the counter girl at the Windy’s what holiday they might be celebrating around the corner but she was not in the mood for conversation.

I was disappointed, but I did get to stop at the Citgo on the way back to the ice cream factory and get an afternoon loco loco.  Usually I don’t get to go there when I am with Taurus because he doesn’t like the crowd that hangs out in front. He won’t even let us walk on that stretch of North Ave. I think that he is mostly afraid that I am going to ask them what gang they are in because he knows I am interested since reading the Fourth Ward gang report.  Then he will have to keep me from getting beaten up or sold bad stuff or whatever he is actually concerned will be the unpleasant result.  There was no one hanging out in front, so I still don’t know if the Young Crew and the Young Young Crew are two completely separate gangs or two affiliate gangs divided according to age.

*Timeshifted

**His real name is not Taurus, and in fact he has publicly rejected the nickname Taurus, but it is still his IM the man is listening to everything code name and he knows that there is not shit he can do about it, but still I am never allowed to say it aloud.  If you were to reference a person named Taurus, there are people in the world who would immediately know you were talking about this one specific man. Other IM the man is listening code names include: ffbom, samiam, hamtoe, porkchop, thekid, manrod, cuticle, ironl, dooley, and reals.