Wow, a Vist to Denver

[Tor Larson]

Had some bidness in Denver yesterday so took the family along to see some sites. Hadn't been downtown in years. Hit the Aquarium, Spaghetti Factory, and Cheesecake Factory. Great time.

After this the kids, ages 11 & 12, wanted to shop and see Larimer Square and 16th St. It was around 3pm. Shouldn't have done it.

Kids were walking maybe 10 feet in front of us and 3 TIMES some pukes from "Planned Parenthood" approached my kids and started talking to them!!! WTF? They didn't want to talk to the adults- they were talking to my kids. What the hell does Planned Parenthood have to discuss with kids? Bunch of Coss Dunts. First time I was shocked and just pulled the kids away, talked to them about what PP is and what they do. By the 3rd time I was getting pissed. Finally my kids just told them to leave them alone. That was cool.

Then were got approached twice by Greenpeace. Loved the guy shouting at me, asking me if I was interested in "saving his world, not mine". Wow. Why didn't he want to save both our worlds?

Then the street hawker selling cologne. He approached me and tried selling me something out of his backpack. I told him "no". He then asked me what cologne I use. I told him "none". He then sprayed me with whatever he had in his hand and told me I should be using cologne because I needed it. Nice. Insulted and sprayed with whatever just because.

Then the ultimate. The trannies. Two different places, broad daylight, in all there splendor and glory. Guess I'm just not used to seeing that stuff. Both were Latino, pretty unattractive, and seemed proud. High heels, makeup, jewelry, Spandex, and vocal. One had a goatee. Amazing. Kids had never seen that before. They spotted them before I did. They were just blown away by that.

Think it will be a few more years til I go back to Denver. Just don't know how city dwellers do it. I was only downtown 4-5 hrs but all that cement, enclosed space, and lack of green freaked me out. Got home and had to get outside, see some sky, and open spaces. T. Jefferson was right, cities suck.

[ray1970]

Gotta love LoDo... where else could you be so entertained and not have to pay an admission price?

You should have gone down last weekend.... the gay pride festival was going on.

[SAnd]

Gotta love LoDo... where else could you be so entertained and not have to pay an admission price?

You do pay an admission price. There is a 1% RTD sales tax if you live in the RTD service area.

[rondog]

Carry one of these, it'll keep the wierdos away. Might attract the Trekkie wierdos though.

[Irving]

The Planned Parent Hood stuff seems weird to me. I've been to Planned Parent Hood a few times in my life, and they never seemed weird to me. Then, I always hear stuff about them very strongly pushing their agenda. At least the few times I went there, it just seemed like a regular ole clinic. I guess I wasn't some 13 year-old prostitute either though.

[Irving]

Haha, I didn't mean it that way. Whoops. I was thinking about the Acorn thing.

[Clint45]

Planned Parenthood, Greenpeace, and other "non profit" groups hire canvassers from craigslist and backpage. They pay them a percentage of the donations and have a very high turnover rate.

Creepy that they wanted to talk to your kids. Kids don't have the resources to make donations. But that's what happens when you hire stoners from craigslist to work for straight commission.

[GunsRBadMMMMKay]

Creepy that they wanted to talk to your kids. Kids don't have the resources to make donations. But that's what happens when you hire stoners from craigslist to work for straight commission.

Little more then creepy IMO. I wouldn't have been polite with them.....

[blacklabel]

Creepy that they wanted to talk to your kids. Kids don't have the resources to make donations. But that's what happens when you hire stoners from craigslist to work for straight commission.

It makes perfect sense. While teens aren't their donating demographic they are their business demographic.

The mall is definitely interesting but I can only handle a once a year visit or so.

[summitskier]

I hate these people. They're always on the DU campus trying to talk to me. Hello, I'm trying to go to class not give you my money.