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THE END IS IN SIGHT | Literally

By
Real Estate Agent with Captain Bill Realty, LLC

THE END IS IN SIGHT (A PHOTO BELOW)

About 10 years ago when my wife and I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area we would go to San Francisco as often as we could to attend many of the cultural and musical events that take place there.

THE PARADE

One day we attended the Gay Freedom Day Parade, and it was great.

If you are ever in San Francisco on that day plan to go and be prepared to have a great time. The floats and participants on the float are professionally done; very interesting and entertaining.

THE AUDIENCE

The audience is made up of all types of people, gay, straight, bi. You name it, and everyone is tolerant and respectful of the others rights and choices.

As my wife and I walked around after the parade we so many funny things happening. One that I recall was a young guy in drag who was having a difficult time walking in high heels.

HIS FIRST TIME IN HIGH HEELS

We stopped and talked to him for a minute and he showed us where the shoes had worn blisters on his heels. He said it was the first time he had worn high heels and made the mistake of not getting used to them before the parade.

SOMETIMES YOU JUST GET LUCKY

We took a ton of pictures of the parade and the activities afterwards, and they are all filed away in our 35mm slde boxes. However, there was one photo that was extremely lucky to get so we had prints made of that one.

We happened to be walking behind two guys who were arm in arm. One had on chaps with a bare butt. I raised the camera to take the picture and at that moment his partner reached over and patted him on the butt.

So here you have it.

THE END

The End

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Comments (10)

Karen Fiddler, Broker/Owner
Karen Parsons-Fiddler, Broker 949-510-2395 - Mission Viejo, CA
Orange County & Lake Arrowhead, CA (949)510-2395

uh....this is too much for a Saturday morning for me. Icky, icky!

May 29, 2010 04:46 AM
Bill Travis
Captain Bill Realty, LLC - Gilbert, AZ
Broker/Owner

Sorry Karen, I should have waited until you had a couple drinks. :-)

May 29, 2010 04:48 AM
Dan Benefield
Benefield Realty - Decatur, GA

Well Bill, I'm just not quite sure how to comment on that. :)  Have a great Memorial Day!

May 29, 2010 04:51 AM
Bill Travis
Captain Bill Realty, LLC - Gilbert, AZ
Broker/Owner

Dan your comment was perfect. Thanks for stopping by. Because we're going to SF this week end, and I had just made a post on SF and my grandchildren, I thought of this photo and decided to use that one today.

May 29, 2010 05:06 AM
Margaret Rome Baltimore 410-530-2400
HomeRome Realty 410-530-2400 - Pikesville, MD
Sell Your Home With Margaret Rome

Butt, butt....Uhh.. What an apt title for this Saturday morning post. Please go back to your flying stories.

Have a great weekend.

Margaret

May 29, 2010 10:33 AM
Bill Travis
Captain Bill Realty, LLC - Gilbert, AZ
Broker/Owner

Hi Margaret, thanks. You have a good weekend too.

May 29, 2010 12:14 PM
Andrew Mooers | 207.532.6573
MOOERS REALTY - Houlton, ME
Northern Maine Real Estate-Aroostook County Broker

Bill, you put your blogging butt on the line, did not pull any punches and got attention. Pushing the envelop and getting a reaction. Leather pants...have a leather snowsled suit but the seat is intact.

May 31, 2010 03:52 AM
Bill Travis
Captain Bill Realty, LLC - Gilbert, AZ
Broker/Owner

Hi Andrew, being from the San Francisco area, you get used to seeing everything and don't pay much attention to it. This picture was a matter of perfect coincedence. I thought the picture was humourous because of the timing, where the guy happened to pat his butt at the same time I was ready to shoot. Without the pat, the picture would have just gone into my archives.

Good thing the seat is intact up in Maine.

May 31, 2010 04:45 AM
Lee & Carol Barbour, REALTORS
Murphy and Hayesville, NC; Hiawassee, Blairsville, Blue Ridge GA - Murphy, NC
Mountain Living Team in Murphy NC and North GA

So it looks like you're missing California and reminiscing through some old photos :) Great title too!

Jun 03, 2010 04:04 AM
Bill Travis
Captain Bill Realty, LLC - Gilbert, AZ
Broker/Owner

Lee and Carool, San Francisco is such a great place. We spent the last several days with one of our daughters and her familly who live near San Francisco. On Tuesday we went to SF at around 11am because we knew the traffic would be light, and I wanted to get a video going down Lombard, "The Crookedest Steet". We got that and then went down to Fishermans Wharf for a great lunch at Franciscan Crab Restaurant.

Yes we miss San Francisco. The photo happens to be in a print collection and since I was going to SF, and had written a blog on SF just before that, I just decided to throw that picture in for fun.

Jun 03, 2010 05:39 AM