A Fall Day in Baltimore

On Sunday, me and Hanna decided to hang out in Mount Vernon Park, which is right next to her house. It's a nice little park, roughly comparable to Dupont Circle for its size and setting (e.g. in a relatively trendy neighborhood with a few sketchballs).

We ran into an interesting cast of characters. The most interesting was a woman who was wearing a fashionable outfit that included a full length coat, warm boots, and a hat. Bear in mind that the temperature was around 75 degrees and no one else was wearing anything but shorts and t-shirts. This woman approached us as we were sitting in a park bench; at that point, we were the only ones sitting in a bench, so she had plenty of other bench options to choose from. Nonetheless, for some reason she liked our bench, and so she asked if she could sit down next to Hanna. Since the benches are partitioned, there is no way that three people can sit on a bench at the same time. Without waiting for Hanna to respond, she sat down, essentially sitting down on Hanna, and causing their bodies to become very squished together. At that point, Hanna got up to lay down on the grass. I waited around a little while. The woman started reading the Johns Hopkins student newspaper and humming to herself. After awhile, I left as well. She was a weirdo. Me and Hanna weren't sure if she was crazy or not, but she probably was.

There was also a guy who was definitely crazy. He was wandering around without a shirt and yelling about medical care at various inanimate objects, including buildings, construction scaffolding, and a nearby statue of George Washington.

There was also a homeless guy with a dog. The dog was well-behaved, but when the dog went up to other people, the homeless guy came over and asked for money. It was unexpected.