So I went over to College Avenue to get Indian food. Some hip, hip-hop listening guys run the place. An interesting set-up where you order from the counter, they assign you a table, you get your food and you wait again at the counter to pay. I like it though, it seems more real than some of the walk-up trendy Indian places.
Since it took me about 10 mins. to find a spot after eating I thought I would actually walk up and down College to see what all the activity was about. I went to a clothing store across the street and there was a feeding frenzy going on in the store, it was crazy people squeezing by, pushing to get at racks and reaching across where I was looking at clothes that went from 12.99 red tag to hundreds of dollars. I kept looking around the store to see what sale I was missing, there was a sign for a sweater sale but that did not explain what was going on…it was too much for me to decipher. I am not a ’boutique’ store shopper, I prefer a ‘Target’ for the basics. And really, I don’t like shopping (though a guy in my life would like to beg to differ on that point).
Escaping, the feeding frenzy, I hit the streets again…I checked out the movie theater, a musical love story was playing ‘Once’. I wasn’t in the mood for a love story. I walked along peeking in windows at a bunch of stuff that I couldn’t imagine ever needing. I bookmarked a couple cafes’ for another time. I stopped in a noisy bird store, that had 4 cute kitten’s and one FAT Garfield looking cat that looked dead to the world. Heading back to the car there was an ice cream store with a line out the door. I couldn’t see past all the heads to see what was so special.
What really wrapped up the walk, was the guy on the corner in his black ’skivvies’ with his ‘package’ dangling on his yoga mat on the side walk with his leg pulled up behind him touching the back of his head. It kind of made sense once I saw he was doing it in front of a Yoga store front. He was doing a ‘pigeon’.
Five steps a way a young homeless kid sat on the ground facing garbage cans with a shopping cart next to him. He wasn’t doing anything, just staring, perhaps meditating since clearly this was a holistic part of town…
Tags: college avenue, food, homeless, indian, saturday, shopping, yoga
