FREE*!

Today has been a day.

I drove to Inglewood to help do an event for the Environmental Affairs Dept. We had an info booth with, well, info obviously, but free stuff as well. Man, people swam towards free stuff.

When I got out of my car and started walking towards the event area, I realized that I must have been the only white person within a 5 miles radius. Of that, I am confident. I just headed over, with a few looks ... but people just assumed I was a government person, because the only white people that live in that part of Inglewood are at least 150 years old. And I suppose they were right.

Most people just walked around and took our free stuff. But there were a few genuinely interested people that I was able to blabber on about our services to. Actually turned out to be helpful to them, which was nice and made it all the more worthwhile. I ended up walking around the booths too, and got some free stuff as well. Shit.... Department of Water & Power is LOADED with funding for crap to give out. Dang. All the other agencies were totally talking about it. Haha. They had BOXES and BOXES of free lightbulbs. I got a lot. How could I turn down free energy-efficient flourescent lightbulbs? Just tell me.

I also got stickers. And vanilla ice cream toothpaste. They came with toothbrushes too. Mine is blue. I got a pack for Justin too. His is green. I'm sure he'll really appreciate my thoughtfulness when he returns. If not, I'll beat some appreciation into him.

LAPD was there too. They weren't very friendly.... nor approachable. I think it was the whole gun thing. And maybe picking officers that were 7 feet tall to do the event was a little bit much. But really now, I think they just had that booth there to mask security on the area.

The girl I was working with was named Keylaundra.

People wore crazy-ass clothes. I have no idea where one manages to purchase so many items in the colour of highlighter yellow. Pants, shoes, shirt, earrings, socks. The whole deal.

We decided it was time to leave when someone stole a whole bag of our EAD yo-yos. Maybe I should have told LAPD about it.