Milwaukee

A trip to Milwaukee was made this Saturday to witness the graduation of Martha’s brother from university. Many family members were there. T’was great to see them all again. Before setting out for Milwaukee on Saturday we hung around in Minneapolis for a few hours and pursued our favorite past time – rummage sales. If you want bargains then the rummage sale is the home of the bargain. I got some brand new books that originally cost $40 but were sold to me for 25c. I could go on and list the deals we got but the list is too long. The apartment is filling up quick with “stuff”.

Milwaukee was fantastic as always. Two straight nights in The Roman Coin (sleazy war veteran’s bar). The booze is cheap and the customers are insane. They show violent movies on three TV’s, just to keep the blood boiled up to a healthy/angry level. We managed to persuade the barman to switch one of the TV’s over so that we could watch COPS.

A crack head came into the bar and hustled me out of $10. I fell for his sob story (he had just moved up from Louisiana, baby had a brain tumor, couldn't find a job, stole food to feed family, was thrown in jail even though he was innocent…) He was dam good. The fact that it was a scam was proven by a customer in the bar telling me that the guy had been fired recently from a restaurant for stealing lobsters, and had lived in Milwaukee, not Louisiana, all his life. He tapped into my charity vein, which many believe does not exist.