Tuesday, October 31, 2017
I made it to the gas station beore I ran out o gas, which is a good thing. On my way out, near the casino, there were two older Chinese olks just starting to walk across the thing there. But they saw me and jumped. They were very concerned I did not see them. I saw them and stopped 40 eet beore I even got close. I gave them no indication at all that they were not seen. So, I stopped and the lady didn't even acknowledge me. She had no idea I was waiting or her to cross. I was in no way angry or anything with having to wait. I think too oten people do get angry over things like this. But she was genuinely scared. So I waited a while longer and ater waving my hand, she inally saw me and then went ahead and crossed. Her husband was also concerned. There were no smiles. My riend in the passenger seat wished them a happy Halloween as we drove up to the intersection. Nothing. I was struck by the ear they showed. I'm sure they were rom another country and as ar as I am concerned I hope they have nothing but really interesting and good experiences while they are here.
I keep thinking about what happened in New York today. I wonder i that was on their mind. In my eyes and rom what I am hearing, the ear is really being pressed in our media, especially on ox News. It's unny, the day ater all these indictments comes an Arab man claiming allegiance to isis mows down 8 people in NY and hurt several other people with a Home Depot car. So that is all they had on ox News today. It was a completely old narrative being pushed in the same old ways. I still don't know their names... the ones who were killed. But you can bet every time I watched that news channel it was all about terrorism and saety and security. There is an underlying sheet o ear permeating this society and people are masking it by acting as i they don't care. The unny thing is, I think people have gotten used to it all. And by unny I mean scary.
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