Also known as “Make Out Pond” or “Get Back Together With Your Girlfriend Pond”, but not so much recently. This place has made its way in and out of my life repeatedly. Every time I start coming back I wonder why it’s not a regular thing. So now it’s my night-time thinking spot, to help me work over those things I need to get real about. “Getting Real” being my man goal in life recently. I’m like: “Yo Jesse, this pond is fucking rad! Yo get real Jesse! No fake. Night-time. No hide.” That’s what I say to myself.
All the times I’ve been here, I never see a security guard or a homeless person. It’s sort of weird, because you walk a block away and there’s a Wawa with dudes begging for money outside. You’d think they’d want to sleep in the peaceful garden area. I thought about sleeping there last night. But I didn’t, because I didn’t want to get surprise mugged of course.
When you read Grapes of Wrath and all the homeless dudes are just sleeping in the corn and eating rabbits it makes you wonder what happened to the renaissance bum. I was at a rest stop recently and I was observing some middle aged employees at one of those joint-kitchen multi-brand “express” food courts, where they have limited menus for pizza hut, taco bell, and that asian one. So they have jobs, per se, and one shouldn’t disdain employment of any kind I suppose. But I wouldn’t work at taco bell in a million years, so why should they? I could barely stand being there for 10 minutes and they have to be there all week. Are they some kind of sub-human? I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t rather take their children and their sick mothers into one of the larger state parks to live. Ironically these are the same people that get “no Fear” decals on their trucks. I think I might even prefer begging at the Wawa. You should start building a stone wall around that pond if you have any free time.
Get some brass knuckles, man.
you just need a buddy to sleep there with or just get a hammock or some “faith” in humanity which is the hardest thing to obtain. You could build a tree fort with a pad lock and a body guard. a dog..
Thats not a Nife THIS Is A Noife!