Nice way to kick off the day on the way to the Southie Parade for St. Patrick's Day. Just a dude loving life, stark ass naked patrolling the tunnels of the MBTA (I'm glad he wore socks though, the floor is gross, you have to draw the line somewhere).
The Southie parade was yesterday, and was an all around blast as usual. Drinking, house parties, drunk hooligans making asses of themselves, and the worlds most bizarre parade...I don't think that's much of an exagerration. Do many other St. Patty's day parades include white people marching around with a Chinese Dragon, the folks of China Town doing their best marching band impression, fat and bloated Elvis, Fat and Bloated Mr. T (guy had worse cafeteria lady arms than, well, a cafeteria lady), Storm Troopers, and the Tin Man. All mixed in with your usual suspects, bag pipers, firemen, and Shriners just causing mayhem in their little go-kart things...
The real story for the day was the terrible job the MBTA did preparing for this day. Did the annual parade just sneak up on everyone over there running Boston's subway system? This does happen every year right? Maybe you want to run a few extra trains to Southie for the day?
Take a look at the video below, that's the crowd waiting for the train on the way into the parade in the morning...This is downtown Boston mind you, not Bangladesh or Mumbai, we're not exactly accustomed to having to sexually assault our way to a spot on the subway. Can you imagine being stuck dick to ass with Naked Guy in this mess? That would start your day off on the wrong foot.
The missteps continued in the afternoon, with the MBTA making rides free up until 6 pm. That's right, the MBTA, constantly crying broke and threatening to hike service prices, didn't charge on one of the single biggest rushes of the year. Real freaken smart businessmen they got running the show over there.
Anyway, finally boarded the train home, saw the usual sights, drunk creatures in various states of consciousness, and a few tough guys swearing up a storm trying to intimidate anyone who asked them to watch their mouths (who later commented how their Dad would be pissed if they didn't make it home in time for curfew, yea, real tough guys).
All in all a great afternoon in Southie, hope I'm not back til next year.
