So he asked me to pull over to an abandoned parking lot, which are plenty
due to recession many stores shutdown here (Circuit City, it was) & left,
said "good luck". 20 minutes later I see an SUV speeding by and parking in
a FAR end of that parking lot. In case you didn't know, besides clicking
buttons, designing and being nerdy, I've had a lifetime passion for
espionage, FBI, CIA & "stuff". I acquired skills to "notice certain
behaviors". So I detected he was on my tail trying to understand if I was
upto something illegal, rather than not having slept for 3 days. Which was
really the case - I was working for several days and started looking
"strange" on the 3d day, and "smoking engine" story may've looked suspicious
to the cop? Maybe, but really our country has become overly paranoid -
reality is my car was really breaking down, and I was tired, no sleep and
that's the reason I looked strange, no tbecause I was drunk or on *rugs.
..
My father was equestioned by the Police for sitting on a playground bench
because he is almost 70, and got tired of walking all day long, he was told
to "stay away from kids"!!
A Police State in making?
EXCUSE ME? A former army officer, project manager for nearly 30 years, and
otherwise a nice respectful man - cop's request sounded like "you look like
a pervert", the other year my dad was almost arrested for peeing in subway
when in fact there was a leak from plumbing and he was checking out his
belt, and to the cop it looked like he just finished peeing, yay!
So I got Nissan Technician on site & temporarily fixed, and continued on my
way to Monmouth State park, one of the central battlefields of the War of
Independence. Many British & Yankess lay in the ground of that field, and
you must visit it, you will love the site. It's pristine, no industries, no
crowds, just old -people & kids and deserted beyond a few hundred feet.
I walked & walked and ran into a Garden of heaven - peaches, apples,
apricots, tomatoes, corn, etc all fresh full of juice, free, nobody around,
why?? I ate so much I was barely dragging feet on the way back and felt
guilty for not paying, but pay to whom? Why is it not being collected?
Then I had a scary thought - it's so abundant because soil is well
fertillized with the blood & flesh of that war. Museum curators say they
still find medalions, watches, etc. personal belongings of fallen soldiers,
and they show cannon balls & rifles found in that field, there's a house -
200+ years old, where fiece battle ensued, there's a spot on which I srt my
foot, where famouse Molly the woman has once stood, she carried balls to the
cannon which was entered into history books, one of the british cannons
ripped her outer clothing off as the ball flew between her legs and if it
hit the leg - she'd be half dead..
This was an irish battalion fighting fiercely for independence. It's an
eerie, almost depressing park. They had no nuclear warheads or aircraft,
but the sacrifice was more than in modern wars, where people don't meet face
to face, here they met and cut each other's gflesh. DISGUSTING. I can;'t
imagine how people lived in those times.
So from broken down car to the magic Garden. Thought would share....
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