Actually one of the things we were chatting about was how boring it is to walk around here. Most people don't and like me go elsewhere like nearby regional parks for their walks. There is actually a regional park a block away but very hilly and the trails often muddy so no one goes there and a little dangerous because it is close to the freeway and vagrants will hang out there (not to probably mention an occasional mountain lion).
The reason I don't see the neighbors that much is most work so they're not home until evening. A few of us work out of our houses so those you may get to know. And frankly some people might find it a little difficult to relate to a tantric computer programmer. :-) Duveyoung wrote: > This is why I suggest getting a Trikke. > > If you want to meet your neighbors, trikking the streets'll do it. > > I've done my streets so much that I can't even get a dog to bark at my > passing by; little kids don't stare agape, and virtually every car's driver > gives me a smile or nod. I'm so known that I'm now invisible like the mail > carrier -- never being a big blip on anyone's radar. > > It's very nice. I say a few words to almost everyone: hi, nice day, great > weather, love your dog, etc....mostly small blurbs of no consequence, but a > touching of spirits does happen. > > A kid went missing a few months ago, and his brother and sister knocked on my > door to see if I'd seen him around in my trikking. I hadn't, but, yep, > despite not knowing the kid that well -- he was only five years old -- I got > on the Trikke and did the neighborhood yelling out his name every 20 feet, > got a lot of passing cars to stop and alerted them, helped the cops canvas > the blocks, and then, finally, the kid was found hiding under his bed and not > coming out when his frantic parents were calling for him. > > I knew not anyone's name, but they all knew me by my frequenting of the > streets, and I discovered a sort of trust had been built up thereby. A two > way street too, cuz seeing a person again and again develops a relationship > willy-nilly. > > So, take a walk around every day, and that should do your social life a > solid. Everyone smiles and is friendly, and it accrues, I tells ya, it > accrues. > > Edg > >
