Dog Walk 5 - Two Junkies just getting along.

Todays contestants are a couple of young people, probable drug addicts but I guess I shouldn't label them if I haven't actually seen them inject, who were walking along the street towards gigi and I. They stood out at first because they were clambering up a fence to look over it. Not sure why they were climbing up there, it was a chain link fence so you could see through it, but maybe they were planning a break in? God knows.

Anyway, they jumped down and walked towards us. The dude was in front and his lady friend following but a few metres behind.

She was "talking" to him, when I say talking I mean yelling something or other at him along the lines of

"You don't ever f*ing do anthing, do ya? huh, well, do ya? Come on, talk to me. What are ya, f*ing scared or somfink?"

You get what I mean.

Anyway, I could hear this as we walked towards them and when they were behind me, the badgering continued.

This would have been fine if that was the last I saw of them.

It wasn't.

I get home, drop gigi off and then head to work via the tram stop.

Now the couple was walking in the opposite direction of the tram stop when I last saw them, but here they were, at the tram stop, sitting on the same seat, she's still yelling at him and he is just looking straight ahead, no response. I never heard his voice, he just kept on looking straight ahead.

What a great team.

 

Dog Walk 4 - Bus stop boy.

Lately I've noticed there is a young student, not sure which school he attends but he wears a uniform (I'll take more note of it next time), and he waits at a bus stop for his private school bus. Nothing out of the ordinary there, but what I have noticed is that every morning, without fail, he is chaperoned by one of his parents. I had noticed that he would walk to the stop with his father on other mornings, and I'd noticed that they would stand on the corner together, again nothing out of the ordinary, until I was there when the bus arrived and dear old dad then walked off to work and he pretty much made sure his Son boarded the bus. This morning it was his mother with him, on the same corner, waiting for the bus. When I've seen his father there, they would usually be chatting, I don't hear anything as I'm in iPod nirvana. This morning, his mother was sort of standing with her back to him, he's sitting on the fence counting down the seconds I guess. I wonder what's going on there. The boy is probably 15 years of age. Why does he need a chaperon at the bus stop? Is that street so unsafe that the boy needs to be looked after? I hope not as I leave my daughter around he corner from there to catch a bus. Does he have a history of cutting school? Has he been caught smoking and this is his punishment?

Dog Walk 3 - Car sleepers.

Over the past few walks, I've noticed a growing trend in our streets. I've noticed there are a few people opting to sleep in their cars. I'm not sure that these are long term arrangements, but I think they are either waiting for their shift to start, or waiting for a partner to finish a shift. Seems funny that you could actually get any sleep in a car in our neighbourhood, it's not the quietest of areas and there are more than enough people who would hassle you in your car for a couple of coins so they can phone their girlfriend.

Dog Walk 2

7:30 am. Today's contestants were these two dudes, guys you normally wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley. Not because the we huge or dangerous looking, they just seemed like a couple of petty crims, dressed in big puffy jackets and baggy jeans and exposed silky boxers. So they are walking towards us and they both look down at Gigi and let out one of those “awwwws”. Not the sort of sound you’d expect to come out of these type of guys, but it did. Then they said something like “nice dog”, I wasn’t sure as the iPod tends to block out most external noises.

Dog Walk 1

7:30 am. Today's contestant was a dude walkeing towards us, wearing a non descript baseball cap, jacket, tee-shirt, long shorts and chuck taylors sneakers. Sounds like your average sort of Joe. Except this Joe is strumming his ukulele. He stops playing it as we approach, but as soon as we are within 10 feet, he plays Gigi a little song, whistles and then walks on by, strummin away.
I think Gigi enjoyed the impromptu show. She sniffed at the guy and didn't jump all over him.

Clokes - Dog walker.

This is a new blog to chronicle my adventures while walking the dog.

With a minimum of two walks a day and our new inner city location, I come across some weird and wonderful people and sights.

We always start with a morning walk, we pick up a newspaper along the way and gigi does her own "business".

In the evening, and I mean late evening, we have out final walk for the day. Usually just a short wee walk, but again, we can sometimes see some weird sights. Especially with a pub nearby and many blocks of flats.

I'll start writing properly soon, away on business at the moment, testing out some great new gear (Mac Pro, PS3, Sony handycam, 52 inch LCD). Really enjoying it!

Bye for now.