Tuesday in D.C.
When I finally got out of the hotel Tuesday afternoon, I walked down 23rd Street toward Constitution Avenue, to visit the monuments. On the George Washington University campus, I passed a Sikh-one of those guys who wears a turban, and follows a religion that’s an offshoot of Hinduism-with a money cup. I must admit, I passed him by, because I’d
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According to their religious laws all men (those old enough to grow a full beard) must be armed.
He sounded cool, and nice enough, but it makes me nervous to know that person is armed.
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Didn't your parents ever teach you that?
Beggars are not safe people to talk to anyways.
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One who took your advice literally wouldn't have got to talk with Bruce Babbitt on the plane.
I think our _ginevra_ is smart enough to be an intelligent chooser of beggars for conversation, or not.
As to the Sikhs' being "armed," things aren't always what they seem, viz. http://www.sikhs.org/art12.htm.
Blessings.
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It's not that I think Rose isn't a capable adult, it's that she doesn't seem to realize what she's doing/saying sometimes (have you heard some of the "Rose-isms"?)
It is one thing to talk to someone on a plane, where there are witnesses and people can't really go anywhere and another to talk to a beggar on the street, where the people around are constantly changing and he could stuff her in a car and be miles away in a few moments.
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