It's been quite a week since I last wrote anything here. In this fair city there was the St Patrick's Day parade with drunk
Irish men and floats with beads, potatoes, carrots, peanuts, bananas, onions and, of course, cabbages!! There was also on Sunday, St Joseph's Day when the Indians parade again and there are various other celebrations. I had to work on Sunday and missed the St Joseph day
thang - but I was
screamin' for throws on Saturday.
I decided to try the whole "I'm Scottish" thing to see if I'd get better beads etc. So I wrote a sign that said "I'm Scottish" scribbled on a piece of cardboard and hung it round my neck. It worked and didn't work. I either got those lovely "Irish" men who are part of the walking parade (guys don't bother with this one until the floats come by
because its all about us ladies kissing Irish men for flowers and beads) giving me brilliant beads (and slobbery kisses on the cheek)
or I got them saying 'don't the Irish hate the Scots?' (one guy on a float yelled a profanity and threw beads ate me - ouch!). Now the guy who posed the question of the Irish hating the Scots would have know the answer if he had actually been
IRISH. The Scots and the Irish and the Welsh all love each other - OK motivated by their mutual desire to see England loose at rugby....
Anyway we came home with beads galore, two cabbages, carrots, onions, peanuts, slim
jims!!, a banana, and lacy green knickers!! Oh I also got a "get out of jail free" card for the
NOPD!!
Photos to follow.....
Then this morning there was a
tremendous commotion outside and I peeked out to see a new gleaming green trash wheelie bin. Its big and
shiny and will hold all our trash - our falling-to-bits other one doesn't. Small joys!!
We passed this car all dolled up for St Patrick's day on the way to Louisiana and Magazine.
On Louisiana turning into Magazine we found lots of lovely "Irish" men beaded and tipsy and willing to swap kisses for flowers and beads!
Me being slobbered by one said Irish man!! Later one guy seemed to want to give me a hicky on my neck while sweeping me off my feet!!!!
The yellow and gold flowers are for the Saints colours! They also had a Saints float -
Sue and I show off our fancy beads from kisses!
But then she did get an early start at the pet shop!!
Dazza , after feeling like a fifth wheel with all the kissing of Irish men , finally got a cabbage from the lovely 'lassies' on the parade float!!
Our loot!!
Nice knickers eh!!
This was my favourite "throw" handed to me by a NOPD dressed in Irish garb - I'm not gutsy enough to try it out - but let me know if anyone needs to.....
I think the sign worked - but I think in future I'll make it in advance and put more explanation on it to avoid getting beads hurled at me with obscenities!!
