dohhh, Theoooo!
Did you ever have a really annoyingly close call with fate? Yesterday was a rather beautiful summer day here in Pittsburgh…not a cloud in the sky, very sunny, very hot…at least 92 degrees outside. I was considering taking a walk down to the Leslie Park pool with the baby, but decided not to simply due to the sheer volume of sunscreen that we would have needed. But apparently there was a shooting there yesterday right around the time that we would have been there. hrmmm. There wasn't anything in the newspaper about it today so this is all hearsay from my family's grapevine. We shall see.
Why this sucks:
guns are ass
a couple of kids had a problem and felt that there was no other way to solve it except for murder
the furthering of Lawrenceville's undeserved reputation as “the ghetto” (a reason why this is bullshit: there have been, I think, three shootings here this year and because this area is mostly low-income everyone's getting freaked out about it. but there were about a dozen shootings by crazy rich people and upper middle class teenagers hopped up on goofballs in Mt. Lebanon last year. But since that area has maintained its ritziness no one's too worried about it.)
there will probably be all kinds of draconian safety measures taken at that pool since, you know, young black kids are basically terrorists.
that's the only pool in walking distance for me…I think…
Argh, my son keeps crawling all over me and trying to push me out of my chair.
