Well just outside Dallas to be exact, in a town called Irving, at the backpackers lodge here. Nice place, but a bit of a weird set up, it feels like a dozen people have just invaded someones house, and having been doing so for the last few years. Met some nice people though.
So I've been into Dallas and walked around, looked at all the angels, spoken to the locals, and I think I have solved who shot JFK...
It was Marilyn Monroe!!! They had each fallen desperately in love with each other and knew that the American public would never allow them to have a relationship, so they faked her death the year before and then she hired Lee Harvey Oswald as a fall guy and set him up to fire blanks from the book depository. They ran off to Cuba together and lived the rest of their lives running a hotel in Havana.
It was great to listen to the conspiracy theorists around the Dealey Plaza, I think between them they thought there were about eight shooters comprising of the CIA, Castro, the Mafia, Communists, and one of them implicated Frank Sinatra?!?
The other strange experience I was not expecting to see were Irish Cowboys. I spent yesterday at the Stockyards in Fort Worth, a through back to the old west where they drive cattle through the streets, you can sit in saloons sipping whiskey, and buy any kind of western clothing you can think of. However it being St Paddy's Day they dressed everything up in green and had shamrocks everywhere, including all the horses and the cowboys/girls to. It is an interesting sight to see a cowboy, herding a load of cattle, in a green 'Kiss me i'm Irish' hat, and a horse with four leaf clovers stuck all over it!!
I did meet a really nice guy having lunch, I was sat at the bar and he took the stool next to me, and was obviously a regular. He was an American version of John, one of our customers at Chandos, and spent the entire time making fun of the staff and my 'funny' accent, telling stories of his past and who he'd met, most of which I think were exaggerated, although I do believe the story he said about swimming with former President George Bush in his swimming pool.
*One annoying thing I have discovered also in America is that they don't perforate their loo roll. It's basic common sense is it not to create neat, easy to tear sections on toilet paper. Maybe I can introduce it and make millions???*
That's all from me folks, until next time...
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