musings

Weather bad today. Torrents of rain in mid-afternoon, and even when it cleared up the weather was still stormy and people were not in an ice-cream mood.

One guy came up to me and asked for a free one. I told him all the little kids say that, to which he replied “If you wanna make any money around here you gotta be cool with the people man, so gimme a chocolate fudge.” Decided the best thing was to comply. He said he would give me some drugs and get me high. I don’t know whether he intended to give them away or not. Decided to miss out East 141st in future, so I’ll never know.

Evening. Went round to the nurses’ apartment where they fed us spaghetti and garlic bread and loads of beer - Miller, Pabst, Budweiser etc. All this beer is very light and fizzy here. Taught us how to “shoot” beer. Pierce a hole in the side of the can at the bottom, put it to your mouth and pull the tab. Result: you are force-fed about half a pint in one second and you’re nearly gassed to death. Really good evening.

Left with a huge tub of spaghetti remains, and a load of garlic bread. Crashed out at about 4am.

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