I know a fellow who has a home yet looks just like that when he's out and about. Doens't give a fig about what the world thinks about him. Many people think he's homeless. I did too, until I got to know him.
-----Original Message----- >From: frank theriault <[email protected]> >Sent: Jan 23, 2009 2:34 PM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: PESO - Itinerant Cyclist > >On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ================ >> Nice one, frank. Think your take may be right, big tear in pants, and >> everything portable. Nice placement. CA unemployment has jumped to 9.3 %, >> so I know >> some people I see around here aren't choosing to be where they are. Wonder >> if you can make that assumption there either. >> >> Doesn't matter, people shots are like Rosarch tests -- our eyes see, but it >> is our minds that fill in their personal stories. >> >> Marnie aka Doe :-) > >Thanks, Marnie, > >I haven't really said much to those who say he doesn't look like a >down-and-outer, but my take is the same as yours. The big rip in the >pants, the huge rubber boots, what looks like a bedroll on his >backpack, the rather old looking bike that was never good quality to >begin with, the coffee mug hanging from his belt, the huge (but cheap >- this ain't no Kryptonite hardened steel New York Chain) chain >wrapped around the seatpost - to my eye it looked like he was an >itinerant of some sort. If not an itinerant in terms of housing (or >lack thereof), perhaps an itinerant worker of some sort. > >But I guess we'll never know. > >Thanks for your comment, and thanks to everyone else who looked and commented. > >cheers, >frank > >-- >"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
