Great!! That time of year again. Living close to Churchill Downs makes this time of the year a daily circus in Louisville. When I first moved close to Churchill, I enjoyed it. I would cook for the out of towners, selling food and making some decent money as well. But as time has gone by, I find myself just wanting to "watch". Call it old age, call it laziness, but the fact of the matter is that I get more amusement out of watching two total strangers beat the living Hell out of one another for a number of reasons, including heat exhaustion, gazing at ones husbands, wives, boyfriend or girlfriend or life partner (yup, it happens), alcohol consumption, buying fake tickets or just being a complete dick.
Ive seen it all.
The City of Louisville makes a ton of money each year locking up these Bozo's. The Circuit Court is full on the Monday after Derby, with both local and out of town badboys/girls, waiting to fine the shit out of them for acting like Simple Jack in public. Back in the day, as long as you didnt start any trouble, you could walk around, case of beer in hand, drinking in public, smoking the funky junky, and the police wouldnt stop nor pay any attention to you. Now, the lethal combination of local rednecks and out of town billfolds have collided and its war, literally.
Have you ever had someone just jump on your hood to show you where to park your car? Yup, that happens. Ive seen crackheads jump on hoods of limos, luxury cars, and even hop on the side of Charter buses to show them where to park. Im sorry, but if anybody jumps on my God Damn hood, Im getting out and taking care of business. You can walk along side the car, the traffic is bumper to bumper, just as easy as you can flopping your doped out ass on the hood of my ride for a quick ten bucks.
Then, something else that really bites my ass, is that the crackmonsters will park cars in yards and driveways, including mine, that DOESNT EVEN BELONG TO THEM? WTF!!! Three years ago, a house three doors down from me was vacant and up for rent. The Louisville Lot Lizards uprooted the sign, proceeded to block everyone in as they parked cars, row by row, then once it was full, replanted the FOR RENT sign, blocking everyone in, and kicked rocks!
Five years ago, there was a house across the street that had a beautiful arrangement of spring flowers, PURPOSELY blocking their front lawn in fear of the lizards parking cars there while they were away from this black hole in sports. What did they do? Yup, plowed right over them. I walked outside that next morning to grab the Sunday paper and that yard looked like it had held its own personal John Deere show, it was unreal.
My point, dont come to Louisville unless you plan on a chaotic time during Derby. Dont believe the hype, its just a bunch of steroid pumped dinosaurs running around in a circle with rich folks betting on them.
Did Dino ever get into the winners circle at Churchill? Wiki away fellow bloggers!!
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