Drunken pirate man. This week the winner for the craziest thing we saw downtown is, no joke, a drunken pirate. Ilysa and I were driving down Kinsley Street and stopped at a red light, which is, by the way, the correct thing to do at a red light, in case you were wondering. Kinsley is getting harder and harder to navigate these days as construction takes over with a lovely trench now running most of the length of the left lane, cars park haphazardly on both sides of this two lane, one way street, and traffic is pushed closer and closer to each other. Imagine our surprise when we saw in front of us, in the middle of the our lane rather than on the sidewalk where one might expect to see a pedestrian, a man doing what could only loosely be referred to as walking. He was wearing a black leather jacket and jeans, and carrying a full milk jug in one hand and a plastic grocery bag with bread in the other. Looking up from the bags we noticed he was smiling a great big smile and had a red bandanna on his head and, yes, an eye patch over his right eye. His slow and staggered steps thankfully drifted him closer to the parked cars as our light turned green and we tried slowly and carefully to go around him. We’re not 100% sure, but we are thinking this was our first sighting of a drunken pirate downtown. We’ll see if it’s the last.
