There are some of our Jupitarian adventures coming up. This is from a couple weeks ago… the first mass, Green Beret and clogged drain Drano weekend… and T-Mobile Tabby, of course.

“I think that was the best weekend we ever spent in our lives,” he said.

“You do? I don’t remember. It was the first time we have ever had 3 nights in a row together in our lives, I do know that. And we met strange people. The whole town is full of them. This was the flavor. Every time we went anywhere we met odd characters like that freaky priest. He was so great they had to close the seminary after he graduated. No sense staying open when they don’t have great young men like him to teach. That’s what he said.”

He laughed.

“Yeah, and I’ve never seen an armed guard in a shoe store! What was that? A Foot Locker needs an armed guard? Those shoes aren’t expensive. There is nothing to steal in there. We must have been in a lousy part of town, I guess. Real lousy. Who knows what that was.”

“And she had tattoos!” he said. “The guard had tattoos on her forearms.”

“Yeah, I saw them, though I tried not to look at her myself. But she sure eyed us. She was doing her job all right. Here were are trying to get a lousy pair of gym shoes and this girl is trying to decide if she is going to have to crack us on the head with a club for a reason, I can’t imagine.”

“She had a gun, P.”

“Yeah, I tried not to notice that but I did and now I’m trying to forget. She looked like she walked right out of my worst nightmare. She looked like the imaginary gatekeeper in some psycho-dungeon online game so I just tried to ignore her in her little corner over there, with her back to the wall. She was scary to see or be near but hey. We got in and out without being shot full of holes, plus you got your shoes so all in all a very good day in Albuquerque. Albuquerque. This is not what people think of when they think of New Mexico, far as I know. It’s supposed to be full of chilies and that place has some other tricks up it’s sleeve, I’ll tell ya.”

Jupiter types, testify! Been anywhere that was nothing like you expected?