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To: Constant Reader who wrote (1162)	8/30/2001 12:24:56 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51774

You're funny. It's easy to sheath the knives for a funny person. I am quite persuaded by laughter. I don't know that I'll ever get to the left-coast again, though I should? I don't know. Odd feeling there. It's a long ways away. But how I love San Franciso. And L.A. Is there anywhere more beautiful than SF? And if you really know the place, the little hidden places there. But my friends from the old days tell me it has changed so. And I read things. How the dot.com short revolution pushed prices even higher. Such glory days in the early 80's! Even the late 80's. But when a whole car full of people start yelling to stop just to look at a new incredible view, you know you are in a unique place. Oh, well. And Lombard isn't the windiest street, but I'm not telling where it really is. That's our little secret. But really... most people don't sleep in rest stops? Oh, and women don't travel alone. Tsktsk. Bad men out there, after all. What a load. Sorry, but I still hear that. I shouldn't travel alone because there are bad men out there. Well, screw 'em. Kill 'em. Whatever. I don't plan to have it affect my travel plans. The good people live. <triple grin> Just getting my traveling sheild on. But... it's a sad thing, I guess. That you need it. There are times I'll have my hair in a pony-tail and tucked in my collar and pass for male. Much easier and less dangerous. Sad. I sleep with the key in the ignition, a knife at my side, and I don't sleep soundly. Not because the world is so bad, but because men attact women. So, yeah, I'm ready to kill. Always. That's part of the price of being wild as a woman. Knowing that their are men who hunt you. Blahblah. Sorry. But that's reality. That's why women don't walk certain streets, or are afraid to go out "after dark". Can you imagine that? Thinking that you can't go out after dark? Not to a certain neighborhood, but anywhere? Because you are prey? And people say that to you. "You shouldn't have been out after dark." An old now phrase..."take back the night". What meaning that had, and still does. I'll go where I damn well please and when I please to. Mess with me and we'll see who is the stronger. You have to want it. And I want it for me and every woman who is afraid to travel like I do, who is afraid of the dark, who is afraid of the predators. Most men accept the predators. That's a sad fact. They'd keep their "little girls" locked up because "you know how men are". Screw it. And I go on. But I've never lost an alley fight, and I don't plan to now. And I say this all to you because... well, you could probably cluck if you tried. Better than me. <g> It's late. I always do this. Push it to the last. Maybe I'll be on the road tomorrow. Or sleeping instead.