Awkwardness at Alcatraz

Following new years, I traveled to San Francisco with the GH crew.  On the drive I enjoyed seeing  the oddly named towns  and the never-ending  stretches of flat land  across the country.   

I was in California for 2 weeks and filmed at 2 different locations.  One was Alcatraz and the other was a dilapidated juvenile delinquent school that was attended by children that would eventually go to Alcatraz.

A lot of good memories came from those 2 weeks. 

This one sticks out:

I was on my lunch break on one of the days that I was filming on Alcatraz and a couple of the National Park guides gave us a tour of some of the areas of the prison.  At one point they gave us an opportunity to get locked in the cells.  We all went into separate cells , then they locked the doors.   As I was in the cell, one of National Parks guide, a woman in her mid-sixties, came up to my cell and said something like, “Pretty nifty, huh?”  She had been working on the island as a tour guide for 20 years.  She began talking about how the island has changed since she first started.  Then she started talking about how her duties had changed.  Then she started to talk about how her work has affected her day to day schedule and her social life.  Then she started telling me how her Nephew started his own pet grooming business.  The level of detail of the conversation had quickly exceeded my attention span.  So I decided to say something that would somewhat comment on what she was saying but more importantly stamp some finality on the discussion.  I said something along the lines of ,“Well, you gotta do, what you gotta do!” or “Well, to each his own!”.  However once I said that , a funny thing happened.  It occurred to me where I was.  I was locked in a 5 by 9 foot space.  There wasn’t an opportunity for me to casually walk away from the conversation.  I was stuck there.  So I had to listen to this lady tell me about her nephew’s high profile cliental, until finally one of the other guards opened the cells.   It made me think about being in prison and how being locked up would present many awkward scenarios, similar to the one at hand. 

That’s all for now.

-Charlie

Haiku of the day:

If you go to jail

Don’t be the troublemaker

Be the bar tender.

Yo Mama Joke of the Day:

Yo mama is so ugly, she was kept at the zoo for the first 3 years of her life because she was thought to be a maldeveloping baby rhinoceros.