4. July, 2003 - Happy Independence Day
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At last night’s Saints game I was the first guy to say no (and make it stick, there was a Canadian that Eric talked into taking it) to Pandora’s Box. The thing I could have won was 100 scratch-off tickets for the Minnesota Lottery, and I actually found that pretty easy to refuse. I don’t especially like the stupidity tax, and in the time I had to think about it, I figured that saying no was worth more than the expected return of about $70. As it turns out, one woman gave me a dollar for my
integrity
and about thirty strangers commented to me one way or another (most wondering if I was insane), but what the heck. I got a laugh, and I got Eric to call me a pacifist hippie
in front of sixty-two hundred people (once he’d recovered his composure enough to be able to talk). I may be out some money, but I got a laugh. I guess that makes me a humor slut of some sort, right?
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I tried to take some pictures of the fireworks, but the sky was still pretty light (though not as light as it appears in these pictures) and of the thirty pictures, I was only really happy with these. Oh well.
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I didn’t notice until yesterday that Minneapolis grocer George Delmonico died at 81 while I was out of town. Dangit. I feel bad for the family, and I’m going to miss George. [steph]
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Fri, 04 Jul 2003 12:59:32.
