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.

[Scanker19]

Both were Latino, pretty unattractive, and seemed proud.

Damn.

Anyways,
Anyone ever see that Black Guy dress in a Pseudo-Power Ranger/robot costume that performs on the 16th street mall. He's pretty funny.

[jscwerve]

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.

You have a higher tolerance for that crap than me I guess. I probably would have given that guy a mouth full of fist.

[Tweety Bird]

20 years ago (July 1991). Late night, close to downtown.

Mom was in the hospital dying and my son and I had been down there to see her. A cousin and his wife were with us. We went into a Denny's on the way home, at about midnight or so.

A cross-dresser walked into the place and I could see my son (7 years old at the time) giving "her" the Mark-I eyeball scan. I could tell he was pretty confused but I didn't say anything to him about it. Finally, he whispered to me, "Dad, is that a MAN dressed like a lady?"

Pretty observant for a 7-year old, I'd say. I explained it to him but we avoided that part of town after that.

Still do. I absolutely despise the urban scene. I deal with it because sometimes my job requires it, but nobody can force me to like it.

That's part of the reason why we live where we do; our nearest neighbor is a mile down the dirt road.

[gnihcraes]

You have a higher tolerance for that crap than me I guess. I probably would have given that guy a mouth full of fist.

Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing. I'm allergic to a lot of the perfume and colognes, spray me when I don't want it. Whack. Go ahead and file assault charges, I'll do the same.