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1/ This evening around 9:30 I was on the phone with a friend in Toronto. I was getting ready to go get a few groceries, and observing the rules: go to the bathroom before you get in the car.
I was interrupted in my task by an odd rustling sound from the
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2/ livingroom. So, still with ghe phone in one hand and pulling my pants up with the other, I turned the corner into the livingroom...

...where a stranger, wearing my winter coat, was stuffing things into a gym bag. A box of 3 votive candles. A boxed New Testament. A paperback
3/ of Isherwood's Down There on a Visit. A boxed set of Sherlock Holmes books. A fancy programmable power bar. And my gym bag already had the swimsuit, workout gloves, athetic shoes etc.

I bellowed at the man to put my things down and I rushed toward him - my right hand with the
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1/ Keeping an eye on drug house's customer, who made it as far as the empty lot - which means she's outside our kitchen window.

We gave our naloxone kit to another who needed it this week, but there's a drugstore at the corner...

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2/ She's okay, so far. Moving now, slowly. Getting herself together.

Looks like she'll be okay.

Doesn't know I'm keeping an eye out for her from inside - not just in case of overdose, but in case of assault or theft.

I resent the drug house for the way it eats their lives and
3/ selfishly for the way it turns the neighbours into caregivers, security guards, informants.

She's managed to get to her feet. Fix her hair, like she's in a trance. Saunter away in slow mo.

Didn't need the kit. Phew.

All of it very quiet, not like the nightly commotion of
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1/ Yesterday I went shopping in #yeg for a modest set of adjustable dumbbells. I was checking second hand stores, pawn shops.

No luck - but then I spotted a liquidation store that advertised itself as having sporting goods.

They had what I was looking for at a reasonable price.
2/ There was another customer looking for the same thing. The sales clerk came over, chatted us up, offered a further discount if we both bought.

It wasn't the perfect model, but fine for home exercise during COVID-19 restrictions.

While the other customer and I were talking
3/ it over, a woman came in to the shop. She was a senior, struggling a bit with a walker in the rain. She was there to pawn something.

Our clerk explained to her that this was no longer a pawn shop. Then he asked if he could do anything else for her.

She hardly looked at him.
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