San Francisco is an interesting place!

Rick and I were going to meet up with our friends Sam and Marielle for dinner in the city after work on Monday night. We were planning on meeting at 6:15ish which meant I had a lot of extra time in the city after work before meeting up with everyone. I headed over to China Town to buy some new jewelry, which I absolutely love! I then headed towards Rick's office to wait for everyone.

Sitting on the corner of Embarcadero and Market St. was a very interesting 30 minutes. I thought I must share! I had just received a free sample of Honest Tea's new juice product from the ferry building. It was a pomegranate blueberry juice which was actually very refreshing. I sat down on the corner at a little table in front of Subway. A group of black teenage boys came rolling up on their skateboards. They asked me if the juice was good and worth getting a free sample. I said yes. They were friendly boys. They then headed into Subway to order some sandwiches.

The boys came out, sat at a table close by, ate their sandwiches, and started rolling some joints and smoking them. A second later an old white man with a very long white beard and a roller bag came up to the boys and asked where the Bart station was. The boys politely pointed to the corner of the street one block away. The man continued to go on and on about how he needed to get to Richmond quickly to catch an AmTrack train that had left him behind in the city. The boys were looking at him a little strange and couldn't figure out why he was telling them this long story when he was in such a hurry.

A second later, a group of people come walking down the street shouting and cheering Honest Tea at me. One man stopped and took a picture of me sitting at my little table drinking my Honest Tea. He said he was with the company which I figured so. They paraded down the street passing out free bottles.

An older, larger, homeless, white lady on the street who had three free bottles in her hand starting yelling at a tourist man stopped with his group on the sidewalk to discuss directions. The man turned around to see who was yelling at him and what they were saying. She was demanding that he go into Subway and get her a bag for her Tea. He had a boggled look on his face. His group then hurried along on their way down the street.

With no response from the tourist she turned to me, sitting at the table in front of Subway. She yelled at me to go in and get her a bag. I said NO. She then started walking in to Subway herself saying, bleep bleep, blankety blank.... as she passed me by. As she walked out of Subway with her bag she yelled at a Chinese women at the bus stop to "Stop that Bus". STOP THAT BUS! She then hopped on the bus and drove away.

A few seconds later I saw a short, Latino, homeless man walked by with a milk crate on rollers. He was rolling around a sleeping bag and a pet cat.

For the next few minutes it seemed to be pretty normal. I saw a few people jogging with ipods, some business men and women on their way home, some groups of kids walking by, a tourist couple with a book of San Francisco in their hand, a girl with a rainbow sweater on and so forth.

Then I saw an Asian women dressed in a French maid outfit with a big black and white bow in her hair. She was walking down Market with her friend who was dressed in business clothes.

Minutes later Rick, Sam, Marielle and I were walking along the same street, out to find a restaurant that would take us without reservations. Oh how I love San Francisco!