September 22, 2014

What’s The Difference?

Spent some time today in a beachside community south
of downtown Los Angeles. No judgment either way, but
couldn’t help but notice a few differences, folks:

In The City:
People walk fast
Not In The city:
A lesson in how to amble

In The City:
No eye contact
Not In The City:
Frequent smiles. To me. No mistaking it

In The City:
Dropped pants with six inches of puffy
boxers to enchant
Not In The City:
Firm buns in bike shorts to enchant

In The City:
Oversized tees
Not In The Cty:
Torso-hugging, chest-defining tanks.
Male and female

In The City:
Weirdly sculpted soul spots/chin hair
Not In The City:
Full-on mountain man bush, sometimes
a moustache with full-on handles

In The City:
Pale, interesting-looking children
Not In The City:
Robust, tanned soccer players.
Some still in strollers

In The City:
Jammed malls of any sort require a
ten-minute treasure hunt for a
parking place
Not In The City:
Expansive super strips with parking
that magically opens up in front of
your stop

In The City:
Cement canyon sun at noon
Not In The City:
Sun everywhere at any time of day

In The City:
Street tacos to die for
Not In The City:
Claim Jumper

In The City:
Hard to tell orientation (metro sexual)
Not In The City:
Everyone looks straight (repeat: looks)

In The City:
Clothes like they came from some
designer
Not In The City:
Everything could be off the rack at
Old Navy

In The City:
In your face art everywhere
Not In The City:
Not even one piece of graffiti

In The City:
Politest drivers in the world because
ya never know who has a gun
Not In The City:
Constant nudging beeps to get out of
my my my way

Thirty short miles away, and we are two
different species.

WTF is that?

Tags: Think Cro-Magnon and
Neanderthal; pick your tribe; in the eye of the
beholder; stranger in a strange land, and vice
versa