Sunday morning we had Brunch with Charles and Suzie at the morseland cafe, one of the nicer places in our neighborhood.
They have Leffe on tap and serve a hearty brunch on Sunday. To get there we had to walk a couple of blocks down Morse Avenue. I don't think Morse is all that bad . There is an El stop on Morse, a liquor store, a check cashing business, so it attracts its fair share of low lifes. It's where the neighborhood goes to buy its crack. Buy local. I have seen some prostitutes there as well. But other than that, it is a rather charming street... It really is not all that bad, I don't think it is dangerous even, just a street in diverse, poor part of Chicago where you have to be somewhat aware, and where thousands of people pass every day to go about their business, and for some, that business may not be entirely legal.
Anyhow, on the way to the Morse we stayed on Farewell -our street-, which runs parallel to Morse, but is a nice, tree-lined residential street, where far less funny business is going on. On the way back though,
I thought I'd show our guests the more colorful side of our neighborhood and we walked home via Morse. As we were approaching the El stop (EL- elevated train, Chicago's metro system), Charles pointed
to a woman in an alley and exclaimed with a strange mix of surprise and amusement "Is she peeing?" And indeed, she was. A bigger African American woman, wearing a big coat and nothing below was squatted against the wall of a building doing her thing. Then, as she noticed people's stares, she got up a little bit, and still naked from the waist down, pressed her buttocks against the wall and started yelling "My butt is warm- gotta cool my butt down, gotta cool my butt down."
That made us all feel much better. For a moment there, I thought we were dealing with a lunatic who thinks it is ok to pee in the middle of the street. Imagine what that would do to the property values. Turns out she was only bringing down the temperature of her ass by rubbing it against a building. Totally makes sense.
Posted by vana0047 at October 16, 2007 01:16 AM