Getting Around in the Summer Heat

I like to drive without A/C Unit on during the summer, of course if there is someone else riding along in the car I will turn it on, but for myself, it really does not matter, reminds of all the cars previously owned that did not have air conditioning or moreover the fact there was not enough money and personal income to afford such a luxury. A luxury, not too most who have to commute to work in the midday Las Vegas traffic where the temperatures can reach 115, but there are a section of people in Las Vegas who do not own cars, they have to walk everywhere no matter what time of day, right in the midst of the sweltering heat, people develop their own dance, their own flow, a delerious pace where heat exhaustion and sunstroke set in, but what relief is there, maybe a big giant Pepsi or Slurpee, for the more harden types nothing beats a cold tall boy of beer, maybe two, shit why not an entire 18 pack, just like some of the locals the other day, some pisans who were finishing up lunch at one of the more regional mexican restuarants in the city, by regional, I mean, you mostly get people from a certain Mexican state who eat there cause the food is made by people from the region, just like home, who would not like that, I like the place as well, can rap some Spanish, hangout, place is call El Alacran de Durango, it's off of Valley View between Flamingo and Spring Mountain, same shopping center as Green Valley Grocery, anyway, the pisans have the 18 pack with them as they head back out to the portable car wash outfit located off to the side of the Alacran, sipping away on beers as they detail a fleet of automobiles, no one is shocked or concerned about the quality of work due the flowing beers, it is just part of the deal, a deal I can get behind.

Drove through Twain and Sands today, where not too many people have cars, there is a man who has long since lost the battle with cheap local drugs who is manuevering in sort of a slow motion halfback/pinball carefully plotting each step to stay clear of other pedestrians, he waves to me as he passes temporarily stepping out of character as if to let me know, hey, I see you get all this, pretty crazy shit, glad you understand this, now go out and share it. Across the street there is a guy on the phone, holding it in a manner when one talks to another on speaker phone, ala Star Trek style, like a walkie talkie, his other hand has a large plastic Mountain Dew, he strolls along in a semi pimp walk with his long with t shirt and khaki shorts, the weather has him knocked a few pegs as he screeches to a halt at the crosswalk barely alert enough to see the oncoming traffic intersecting in front of him. A family is walking with their young baby in a stroller who is cover with a light white blanket, it has to be a challenge to get everyone around without some sort of major bit of frustration developing, from making sure the baby is cool enough, not hungry, hydrated, to pushing the stroller around in the sun, I imagine things could get frustrating, no car, no dependable public transportation, the lucky ones ride around on bikes to get to their destinations a lot faster but for most around these parts, they are not so fortunate, just have to start walking and get over the heat, the large amount of insane people walking the neighborhood around you who might have lost all their sense from being out in the sun too long, dodging the drunks and the addicts up against the liquor store walls hiding from the sun with cheap alcohol in hand, a liquor store where the counter is covered wall to wall in two inch thick Lexan glass, the bulletproof shit, how do I know this, went in a while back to buy some zags, that place looked more fortified than most banks, but doing business in that area, those types of measures seem mandatory. So as the hot breeze blows my hair into a bigger fro and dries the skin on my face, I am not really bothered, especially after spending decades of my younger life like all the people mentioned above, journey to the sun, the sun never loses the battle, today I sat in an air conditioned hotel, made some money, and spent the day relatively comfortable, so driving around without A/C is not much of an inconvenience and moreover reminds me of how so many people get by on nothing, something I need to rediscover. Later