sounds like it was a busy day for you yesterday! How was lunch and your meeting with your friends?
As expected the Mall was crowded with kids and I had to sit on a high stool at a bench to eat my subway (Italian with 3 pepper chicken and avocado
). I am too old now to sit for long without a back to the chair.
Subways here have much more choice than in the USA. My first night in LA, being jetlagged, I went to the Subways at Union Station and was confused with the lack of choice and no avocado. Also there were no seats. I had to stand at a high table. A week later, I went to one in Denver near my hotel. There were seats but still a different menu to home.
The meeting was very interesting with a woman in her 50's who has been a nurse with the Red Cross in Afghanistan. She was quite funny especailly explaining how they were training Afghanis to work in theatre etc. Male doctors could not touch their women patients even in gynaecology (no wonder there is a high mortality) but in theatre, a woman anaesthetist would put the woman under and then the male doctor could go to work.
Also as a foreign woman she was regarded as a "third sex' and could go into male wards while no local woman doctor or nurse could. I coud go on and on. They could not understand why she was not married in her 50's and she had lots of proposals, she was not interested in being the 2nd or 3rd wife.
My hiking group has a problem. This year (while I was in the States) a new 'woman' joined. She is a tranny. That is not the problem, she seems to have other mental problems perhaps arising. Last hike was a bit harder than usual. I was at the back (Tail end charlie) and she said "I feel sick". I said "Have some water" she said "I do not have any" I told her she must never hike without water. She had not brought lunch, just a mandarin, her shoes are shocking, hardly good enough to wear down the shops let alone up a hiking track and no hiking stick. I think she is very poor, probably on disability benefits. She told me she will be 65 at the end of the year so is not yet on our very good state superannuation (given to all over 65 but taxed). I think she was surprised when I said I was 70. Eventually she could not go any further and I had to run ahead and find the rest of the group and say we were going back. Some of the group are insisting I tell her to buy proper equipment and some have offered boots - depends on her shoe size. I have decided to wait and see if she comes next Tuesday which will not so difficult a hike The previous leader has warned me the hardest part is telling people they are no longer up to hiking with us. She herself dropped out at the end of last year which is why I took over.
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