DIRECTIONS ON BROADWAY?!?
So I'm walking down the street by my apartment today looking for the post office (which as it turns out is about 4 blocks from where google maps says it is) and I'm trying to make eye contact with ANYONE on Broadway to ask them if they know where the post office is. The problem is, after being hassled by the hordes of canvassers for children's international, the red cross, and real change, nobody will make eye contact with anyone. I almost understand it... the canvassers are so aggressive even when I give them a polite "not today" or "thanks but no" which would suffice in most other cities as a sign of "I'm flat-ass broke can't you see what I'm wearing and the look on my face" they follow me down the street saying "Hi! My name's Katy, I know we're going to be the best of friends!" like some kind of retarded puppy (Holy shit get a real job Katy this isn't the first time). So because of (at least what I'm attributing to) those leechy bastards nobody on Broadway will make any kind of eye contact with the guy looking for the post office, not a handout. FINALLY I find this hipster kid who accidentally makes eye contact with me and I ask him politely "Excuse me, do you know where the post office is?" and he gives me the fastest set of directions I have ever received in my life then literally runs away. AND FOR THIS I WAS EXTREMELY GRATEFUL. Seriously. The south may have bigoted racist bastards and ignorant lifetime-misinformed conservatives toting guns in their pickup trucks, but if I was lost I never had a problem asking ANYONE for directions. The friendliest people I have met so far in this town are the weird homeless dudes in Belltown who don't ask me for money, just conversation, so I share my smokes and beer money outside the pubs -because apparently they are the only ones in this town who understand what it's like to be a human being. And when I sign up for medical marijuana so that I can put up with the passive aggressive douchebags and waste-of-life canvassers that litter this city, I will share it with the homeless people -because they are the only ones who seem to understand how fucked the residents of this town are.