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Dream Interpretation
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 14, 2020, 09:26:30 am ---What were the nature of the attacks?
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In one of them, a woman carrying a box of flowers was hit with a brick by a couple of teenage boys. They were trying to steal her purse, but I don't remember if they succeeded. I don't remember the nature of the other attack other than that it was an attempted robbery.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 13, 2020, 01:12:56 pm ---I have not, but living as I do in the very center of a major metropolitan area, it still remains a possibility.
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They vary, though. I lived in New Orleans, as I've often said, when it was the murder capital of the country -- 450 murders one year in a city of 500,000. And they happened anywhere in the city, including wealthy residential neighborhoods. We lived in a fourplex on a major streetcar line / thoroughfare, and a guy got shot on the front steps of the sandwich shop across the street. When we first arrived, I briefly (one week) took a job waiting tables at a restaurant down the street, and a couple of times I got off at like midnight, give or take. I would sprint the whole four blocks home.
Then we moved to NYC for a year. In a city 15 times the size of NOLA, of course, there were many more murders, so at first it seemed dangerous. And, to be fair, we did live near a park on the Upper West Side that people were warned to avoid, it was just four years after the Central Park jogger attack, and walking through any cute little neighborhood playground you would hear crack vials crunching underfoot.
But eventually I realized I was much safer in Manhattan than I would be in NOLA. Most violence in New York seems concentrated in certain parts of the city, and the area around Columbia University isn't really one of them.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 13, 2020, 01:12:56 pm ---Edit to Add: On local TV news this evening, I learned that last evening, someone was attacked four blocks from my home, and a second person was attacked a mere three blocks from my home.
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Ugh. I hope that whoever was responsible for the attacks was caught.
Jeff Wrangler:
I had quite an interesting dream last night. I was in the house where I was raised, in my childhood bedroom, though I was not a child. I could see a small trunk--a footlocker type thing--against the wall across from the foot of the bed. On top of the trunk there was a wicker basket holding magazines--train-related magazines, I think. I looked away from the basket, and when I looked back at it, the magazines had disappeared. Then the footlocker started to follow me ( :laugh: ), moving of its own accord. I called twice for my mother--and I think I woke myself up by actually verbalizing, though the sound was more of a whine with my lips tightly compressed, rather than actual words. I also remember that I was saying "Mom," which is kind of strange because I never called her that--or not often, anyway. Typically I addressed her as "Mother."
Front-Ranger:
Yes, very interesting dream. How do you interpret it?
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