Stuff I did. (With music.) I had to run to a bank to deposit a cheque so I went out about 11:30 PM. On the way back to the house I passed a bar where 4 folks were out front having a smoke. Someone recognized me. (fuck)→[More:] I am quite face blind and did not recognize them (a couple male and female) but after a moment I could make sense of it and realized I had worked with them doing security at a bar called South Detroit (a joke based on this song).

They weren't married then but are now. I had a cigar in my pocket so we hung out a bit and they bought me a couple of beers and a shot of CC. (It now belongs to Beam Suntory but it is still made just down the road from me.)

Things are different now with COVID but for decades our downtown on Friday and Saturday nights was filled with 10 to 20 thousand students from Detroit area taking advantage of the lower drinking age in Ontario. Pack 6 or 8 people into a motel room and hit all the bars on the downtown strip.

The couple were there the first night, a Friday, I was on and the place was packed. Security leader went off for a moment and left me out front. Some 'old' lady came up. I don't really know but she could have been mid 80s or a rough looking late 50s. Hard to pin down. She got in my face and pointed over my shoulder and started screaming about how she owned the building and the folks running it were ripping her off.

I just keep making nice agreeable noises and she just keeps screaming. Mental illness or drugs? I don't know. I just want her to protect herself and move on. Nope.

Old man across the street (street closed to traffic and is pedestrian only at that time of night) stops and yells at her 'bitch' 'whore' type stuff over the heads of the younger party people. Yeah great. He comes over and they start yelling at each other. Neither seem really likely to come to violence so I am happy they are yelling at each other rather than me.

And here comes 30ish yelling guy and he gets into it. Really? After a couple minutes I spot 3 cops coming down the street on bikes and I try to break my little group up. 'It's the cops get out of here!'

No they did not listen and heed. The cops were good and patient but the whole thing took close to an hour to sort out. That same time a guy doing security a block down the road was gut shot by a guy he refused entry to on grounds of impairment.

I made sure my wife did not find out about that.

So an odd night tonight. What you all up to?