As some of you may know, my job affords me the opportunity to travel throughout these great states of ours. This week finds me in the very capital of the golden state, Sacramento. The locals refer to their town as Sac, then there is Old Sac, and I even picked up the local magazine about the city called Sactown. But what I want to talk about are the crazy sacs. Don't get me wrong, my beloved home, Memphis, has it's fair share of crazy (sometimes I even feel gifted with more than my fair share) it's just that the sac brand of crazy is a refreshing change from my mundane local flavor.
I was walking down "J" street in the middle of the day when I noticed a girl, probably in her early twenties, riding toward me on her bike. From about half a block away this unbathed crazy sac yelled out, "You know what sucks?" At first I didn't realize that she was talking to me and if I had I was not about to answer that loaded question. So I kept walking and she kept riding toward me, and when she got right in front of me she said,"I crashed my bike", and I did what any person would do with crazy experience (which is all of us), I kept walking and acted like nothing ever happened.
So come to NorCal and say hello to the crazy sacs while you are here.
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What?? That's IT?? I'm sorry but your story BARELY qualifies as representation of the crazy sacs!! That girl is more of your "normal" Sac resident.
Here's a small sampling of more genuine Sactown craziness....
1. police chases in....parking lots
2. woman dies from drinking too much water b/c she was trying to win a radio contest
3. the general populace of Sac voted to paint their lovely historic bridge a putrid yellow/greenish (think weird baby poop) color
4. a Sac-hooligan, when asked about the drugs found in his pants pocket replies....."they're not my pants!"
So I hope you continue to find your Sac visit entertaining with even more stories of Sac-crazys and if you want some recommendations of good places to eat...let me know.
--schmo
Well, in the interest of good journalism (hint, hint mainstream) I can only report on those things I have witnessed first hand.
MG-please tell about your dinner company...and please tell about how your trial is on TV...unless this is all top secret...then of course I make this all up!
Ooo Ooo! I wanna hear about it, too! Did you see somebody famous at dinner?? Is Geraldooo at the TV trial??
Julie
Hey!! That craayy-zee Sac girl gave me an idea! Let's make a game called "You know what sucks?"
Here's mine: When you nurse your teeny tiny kitten back from near-death, and he grows up and BITES you ALL the time!
Here's, um, somebody else's: Well, when you're freaking 12 and three-fourths years old, and your freaking parents are lame and nerdy AND not EVEN wealthy, and your freaking siblings FREQUENTLY act like freaking MORONS..... pretty much everything sucks. (FREAK!!)
Come on, people. (and goats) Tell us your own "You know what sucks??"
Julie
You know what WOULD suck?
Being invited over to someone's house for dinner but writing down the wrong address. When you knock on the door they say, "The door's open, come on in". When you walk into the kitchen, Chris Hansen from Dateline shows up and asks what you're doing there.
That would suck.
You are right, schmo, my story isn't as crazy as the others, what was crazy is that out of all of the people on the street at the time she made a b-line for me. I wasn't even making eye contact. Get my email from OtherGoat and send me your cullinary suggestions, no chains please.
No, Marg, I don't think I am at liberty to discuss.
No, not Geraldo.
What would suck is if she had crashed her bike into ME. (I'm so self-centered)
MG-could have told me that on the millions of phone conversations we just had today...instead of on this comment!By the way...Court TV is nation wide and in other parts of the world so I will tell them. MG's trial is on court TV! How is that for Liberty!
SG-You had me rollin'
very very funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You win hands down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got your email but at the time didn't know how my "travel expertise" could help. But now that I know you want eating establishment suggestions (should I be surprised??), I've got one of my local connections working on a list that I'll email tomorrow sometime. Be excited b/c she mentioned a rib place! (Just so you know...rib places are as close to BBQ joints as we have out here)
--schmo
The only thing I see on Court TV is the Phil Spectre Trial.
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