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Mardi Gras Day Five 2.18.98
Day Four was an off day so after all that weather on Sunday and then no Monday parades, Tuesday was much anticipated by all us masses.

I ain't taking ya'll to all the parades this year I had warned the boys two months previous as we drove through McDonald's.

So tonight I took Mandy, Marqin (you can insert a U there after the Q if you want), Fermin, Glynn, Kizzy, Greta (Mooses sister from California), and LuLu, the honor student, and brought back Shelton, Moose, Mandy, Glynn, Fermin, and Marqin.

Kizzy is pregnant again, number three in her nineteenth year.

"Feels like gunfire in the air," I said to Mandy.

"You think so huh?" Mandy said

"Yep, I'm using Marqin (8) as my barometer. He seems a little too keyed up. Not a good sign."

"Hmm." Mandy said.

So when a minor panic stampede started and the young girl next to me asked where her baby was and no one seemed to know and people began running up St. Mary's away from St. Charles and the four policemen who had heretofore been loitering in our area stood shoulder to shoulder in the middle of St. Charles waiting for the worst, I had to boast that damn yes, I'm good. But similar to the last time we witnessed
a panic stampede, which was at a second line parade, it all turned out to be an emotional mistake, or someone showed someone else the gun they were carrying and one witness panicked and then...

Shelton and Moose showed up towards the end of the parade with a big garbage sack full of stuff.

Shelton started counting his cups.

"Fifty six," he said.

"If you expect me to hold this stuff, it will cost you twenty percent," I said.

"What's that," he said

"Well, ten percent would be 5.6 cups so twenty percent will double that--11.2 cups."

"I can do that," Shelton said.
Back on Dumaine everyone piled out of the car, Moose thanked both Mandy and I, wow, and Marqin remained curled up into a ball in the back seat.

"Time to go home Marqin," I said as I picked him up still in a ball and plopped him on the street.

- jimlouis 9-06-2002 11:11 pm [link] [add a comment]