Strange Sights Downtown

I thought I'd share a few unusual things seen in passing while we were downtown on Monday.

A presumably homeless fellow was holding a large sign that read: "My father was killed by ninjas and I need to avenge his death. Need money for karate lessons!"

While walking by the Walgreens store we saw a young guy sitting against the wall on the sidewalk, surrounded by cops. The funny thing was, the cops were bicycle cops, wearing helmets, and had made a sort of barrier around the guy with their bikes. The guy was nearly crying and saying he didn't do whatever it was they were accusing him of doing. I felt that it was sort of odd that it seemed to take 4 officers and their bicycles to subdue one small guy who was in tears.

When we exited a t-shirt shop at the end of the day, a man came up to us with his ferret and told us he had "saved" the ferret from a house fire and was collecting money for his care. He let the kids hold the ferret so I gave him a dollar. Very creative stories for collecting cash!

While A. was making a purchase at the Market, Z. and I were watching a guy playing a piano and a gal who had been dancing, fight for space to perform. The piano guy was furious at the woman because she was crowding his space (taking possible cash-flow from him.) It was a peaceful, reasonable-type argument that ended with the piano player leaving in a huff.

I've always enjoyed people-watching, and downtown Seattle offers quite a bit of interesting people to observe.