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Bethesda Avenue Saturday, May 30 1998 | ||||||
The only really interesting thing that happened today was a little bike ride that Nancy and I took into Bethesda. We both rode mountain bikes, and we traveled well together. I feared she'd either leave me in the dust or exhaust me as I tried to keep up; she did neither. Despite my dysfunctional lifestyle I guess I'm in better shape than I'd thought.
Nancy and I ended up on Bethesda Avenue, in hopes of encountering the not-usually-elusive Mayor thereof. Either he was out on one of his junkets, or he was attending to matters behind closed doors somewhere. These are all things mayors must do, so we weren't upset. We ordered bagels at Bethesda Bagels. Bethesda Bagels is substantially more chaotic and crazy than the bagel-customer science one encounters at Charlottesville's Bodos Bagels. At Bethesda Bagels, the person who takes your money is also the person who fixes your bagel. In the case today of Nancy and myself, this person was a big black woman with fierce striped black and green nails. When you order a cream cheese bagel at Bethesda Bagels, you really get the cream cheese. They see fit to completely fill the bagel's hole with the stuff.
We sat out on Bethesda Avenue eating our bagels and doing our best to watch people. Not much was going on, except a very thin, darkly tanned woman dressed entirely in black kept walking up and down the Avenue, responding occasionally to beeper outbursts. Nancy suggested that perhaps this was a masseuse awaiting calls from customers, if you know what I mean. When she vanished, we figured she was off at a hotel somewhere giving "a massage."
This is not to say that Bethesda Avenue looks like a scene of debauchery and craziness. It does not. It isn't especially thick with humanity, and what humanity there is looks to be of the conventional white upper-middle class DC kind. I'm reserving judgment for now, though.
There weren't even very many birds. Nancy tried to encourage one little female English Sparrow with bits of her bagel. For awhile this faux sparrow was the only bird in sight, but eventually a male English Sparrow showed up as well. I took to calling them Scully and Mulder until yet another male materialized.
I bought a half gallon of vodka from the liquor store across Bethesda Avenue. It cost less than ten dollars, an impossibly low price for such quantities of alcohol purchased in Virginia.
Speaking of which, there's a big empty iron cage out on the front porch with all the familiar toys I recall seeing in Wilbur the Cockatiel's cage (also now empty). Brian's bird died a few months ago.
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