So I'm taking the bus home from Safeway and who gets on the bus but an actual, real live Board of Supervisor. One of the crazy one's too- not one of the certifiable crazy one's, one of the saner crazy one's. So what did I do? I put my headphones and pretended to put music on really, really loudly. The last thing I wanted to do is be accosted by a politician, especially one who I voted against. He's a total yutz too. The guy I voted for was this sweet old man who actually came to my door and took the time to ask me about what I thought and asked me for his vote. This guy, the only times I actually saw him in my 'hood he was always being followed around by camera crews, as if he was the second coming of John Kennedy.

Luckily, he didn't go around the bus glad-handing. Good thing too, because I had already been accosted twice in the Safeway parking lot- once by some kid who gave me a lovely "thank you for not helping me" when I blew him off and then by some mother dragging her two kids around the parking lot who made me take my headphones off to talk to her (doesn't she know that the reason why I wear headphones all the time is so people like her don't bother me?). Come to think of it, what difference is there between a politician out begging for votes and Homeless people begging for spare change, other than the obvious fact that one has a home and the other doesn't? Maybe, I should have told him that, that I didn't want to talk to him because I had just been hassled twice in the Safeway Parking lot, and on my way there, I had to pass numerous junkies, drunks, crack-ho's, and crazies.

I did, however, turn my volume down and listened to him speak to some guy sitting next to him. The yutz spent most of the time trash-talking the Mayor and crowing over the fact that "his side" won in the 2000 elections. Which is another reason why whatever I'm gonna vote for, is mainly gonna be done to piss people like him off. There's cities in Thirld World Countries that are run better than San Francisco.

Still, I have to give the guy some credit for not only taking MUNI, but for getting off at 16th & Valencia and cruising around. I wonder what he was up to? A meeting at the Socialist Party down the street? A teach in about oppressed transgender people in Khazakistan? Or is he just out dive bar crawling like everyone else? Maybe he's just trying to get pick up some chick. Either way, color me impressed.