Invisible man
May. 19th, 2024 09:12![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertJust got back from our limp today. I started off fine but was glad I had a walking pole by the end. Not sure I can do the whole walk much any longer. At least not until maybe October.
But I hooked up Toby when there were three women, thin, 30's, chattering birds, were approaching. He tends to get in the way. Zoe knows to mind her own business. Toby thinks everything is his business. The three approach and walked past as if I were invisible. That does not frequently, if ever, happen to me. It was weird. I was clearly a sex symbol with my dog on a leash, a walking stick, and a bag of dog poop in my hand. And I was ready with my typically cheery good morning. But I was a rock by the side of the path. The birds flittered away.
On our way back we passed a field by the basketball court where I saw there was a group playing cricket. Only the second time I've seen a cricket game in the wild and my mind went on a journey back to the first time.
My first deployment. On a frigate, USS Barbey. I had a room mate (there were four of us in the junior officer bunks) who was a ring knocker (Naval Academy Grad) but otherwise a really nice person. He got together a group of a few of us and when we pulled into Singapore we went to spend one night in the Raffles Hotel. Singapore Slings at the Long Bar. High tea. It was a treat all the better in memory as the government soon after Disneyfied the whole place so it lost its decadent charm.
Out my bedroom window was a huge field with a cricket game going on. I watched for a bit as I waited for tea.
Back in Texas, it is a sign of how things have changed in this region. We are not so far from the time that the land on which my house sits was a ranch with longhorns and such. Less than 30 years. And now the Asian contingent has become sufficiently dense that they can put together a cricket game.
I clearly remember bitching about the vanilla human landscape when we first moved here. That has been corrected.
But I hooked up Toby when there were three women, thin, 30's, chattering birds, were approaching. He tends to get in the way. Zoe knows to mind her own business. Toby thinks everything is his business. The three approach and walked past as if I were invisible. That does not frequently, if ever, happen to me. It was weird. I was clearly a sex symbol with my dog on a leash, a walking stick, and a bag of dog poop in my hand. And I was ready with my typically cheery good morning. But I was a rock by the side of the path. The birds flittered away.
On our way back we passed a field by the basketball court where I saw there was a group playing cricket. Only the second time I've seen a cricket game in the wild and my mind went on a journey back to the first time.
My first deployment. On a frigate, USS Barbey. I had a room mate (there were four of us in the junior officer bunks) who was a ring knocker (Naval Academy Grad) but otherwise a really nice person. He got together a group of a few of us and when we pulled into Singapore we went to spend one night in the Raffles Hotel. Singapore Slings at the Long Bar. High tea. It was a treat all the better in memory as the government soon after Disneyfied the whole place so it lost its decadent charm.
Out my bedroom window was a huge field with a cricket game going on. I watched for a bit as I waited for tea.
Back in Texas, it is a sign of how things have changed in this region. We are not so far from the time that the land on which my house sits was a ranch with longhorns and such. Less than 30 years. And now the Asian contingent has become sufficiently dense that they can put together a cricket game.
I clearly remember bitching about the vanilla human landscape when we first moved here. That has been corrected.
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Date: 2024-05-19 20:16 (UTC)If I had passed you on the walking trail I would have had to remind myself I'm married.
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Date: 2024-05-19 23:52 (UTC)My husband has quite a few coworkers who are very into cricket, and yes they are from India. We've even watched world wide televised cricket matches so he can support folks and have outside topics to discuss with them, but I have never seen a match in person. :)
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Date: 2024-05-20 01:44 (UTC)I've been to Raffles for the afternoon tea, although that must have been post-Disneyfication and I had better ones elsewhere in Singapore. I wasn't about to spend $35 on a Singapore Sling, and fortunately Singapore Airlines served me one instead. The hotel though was beautiful, so light and airy. So cool you actually got to stay there, and at the best time.
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Date: 2024-05-20 11:39 (UTC)Cricket has always been a little more popular here, I think. There is a cricket pitch at the Governor General’s residence, right across from the church I go to. In the summer, we can often hear a game during the service. There’s another pitch in a nearby park, but I don’t notice games there as often.