Fun in New Orleans

 

I think everyone should experience Mardi Gras at least once in their life. I went two years in a row, forty seven years ago, and it is burned into my memory. Most of it, good memories. Well, maybe not good, but fun. Yes, fun memories. Like people fighting for worthless aluminum coins and plastic beads thrown from parade floats. I learned not to bend over and try to pick them up off the ground. That's how you get injured. Beside the never ending parades on Canal Street, there is the crush of people on Bourbon Street. Colorful, drunken men on balconies yelling at women to show their tits, and colorful, drunken women actually showing their tits. Which they get paid for doing with those cheap plastic beads. Throw in a few men showing what they have, and you got yourself a show. By the way, this might be happening around nine in the morning because in New Orleans you can always find an open bar. Not to say it doesn't happen later, like at noon, or three in the afternoon. It does, all day long because the drinking never ends. Speaking of fun memories, you can always try to wedge yourself into a bar, specifically a gay bar, where you might find more explicit diversions. I can't say the same for the straight bars. I never went inside one of those. But with wall to wall sweating gay men in a dark bar, things might happen. None of the titty showing out on the street, or drunken debauchery inside the gay bars is legal. So you're kind of taking a chance should you partake. I would think that the cops probably aren't that happy to be working Mardi Gras. And that brings me to one bad memory of Mardi Gras. Finding a place to pee. There are places, but they have long lines and smell really bad. Don't pee on the street. The cops will humiliate you and drag you away. It's why at my age I could not deal with Mardi Gras again. I pee just about every fifteen minutes when I'm drinking beer.

So, if any of that sounds like fun to you, do go to Mardi Gras sometime in your life. Then go see your doctor when you get back home. Never hurts to get tested for contagious diseases.