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SAN FRANCISCO PARKS

This is a peaceful park in San Francisco near China town. I arrived early Sunday morning after turning in my rental car at the SFO airport. It would be midday before my motel room would be available so I toured the city. 

It the place was coming alive as homeless people emerging from their hiding places. In the empty streets of China town the vender trucks were making deliveries. I saw the great chicken escape. It was like an old Keystone cops movie. Three cursing Asian men returned with multiple chickens in each hand. 

I had coffee and exchanged greetings with a guy who had a really cool track bike. He was possibly my first contact with a well off schizophrenic. Out of nowhere he began shouting at everyone. He became an outraged militant gay man who wanted to kill all of the straight people who opposed gay marriage. 

I smiled, finished my coffee and road away. This park was filled with people doing their morning workouts, however there is an added element. It seems they work up their mucus, and leave it in the park. I don't know if it is a worldwide custom, but in this China Town Park, they make it an art form. 

There was a sweet little Asian lady, I could imagine soon would be selling ginseng or yang root in a local store. She was doing the traditional what I think is called "chi" workout. Then she hacked up a lung from the very depths of her soul and spit it into her hanky. 

Another  man woofer up a few chunks, a lady shot snot out of her nostrils, first the right then the left. They soon left for their lives, free of their nasty fluids. I imagined they never display this in other settings and I think it is great idea. 

I see too many sneaky nose pickers. If we all got it out in the morning the world would be a beautiful snot free place.