Memorial Day Psychics

 I love to look for roadside psychics as I travel. Some have some very cool signs outside their places of business.

Neon

 

I especially like the neon signs, I saw one once that said, “Walk In’s Welcome” and I wondered wouldn’t they know you were coming? That neon glowing in the dark and luring in those people seeking answers to life’s tough questions, but who physics, and biology are too hard for.

 

Self Serve Psychic Booth

 

I stumbled across this booth in the park surrounding the space needle. I suppose like super markets, and hamburger stands that have gone to self-serve check out and ordering, that it would be only natural for Psychics to follow suit. Why not sit down, deal the cards, leave a five spot in the jar, and the future is all yours.

The Space Needle

 

The space needle built for the Seattle World’s Fair that opened in April of 1962, still in use, and still a fitting monument to when we could send humans into space, send them to the moon and bring them back.

Seattle Monorail

 

The mono rail, also built for the fair, still looks very futuristic as it cruises along overhead on its way to or from the fairgrounds and the Westlake station, where it connects to the city’s light rail system and where for a measly $2.00 (senior rate) you can get all the way from beyond the airport right into downtown, and well to the space needle if you want to.

I wonder if a psychic predicted that the thing would still be running some fifty years later?

My own  Psychic predictions for the day came to me as I rode south bound on the interstate highway 5.
I predicted that traffic would be lighter than when we made the trip north, and there would be fewer lorries. Amazingly it was so.

I predicted that I would see a giant pickup truck with a pensetrump sticker on it, and sure enough there it was.  It exceeding my expectations with rear dual wheels, loud smoky  exhaust,  and one cigarette smoking ball cap wearing white racist man  behind the wheel.

 Riding southbound on the interstate highway, that remains a socialist project,  built back when the rich paid something like 90% in taxes, and there was a strong unionized middle class, I was listening to Public Radio a total non commercial socialist entity, that since it is the Memorial Day week end they were interviewing people about what patriotism means to them.

One fellow  interviewed, a former military medal winner read off a few of Thomas Jefferson’s words.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

He went on to state that the government was formed to guarantee those rights.

Did those words apply to  the racist guy in the giant pickup with the pensetrump sticker. Did  mere words make him  equal or more equal to people without a roof over their heads as he burnt enough fuel in a day to power my motorbike for a month.

 Was  everyone else wizzing by me  ignoring the speed limit and just about every  traffic law. Did that make them more equal or better than someone born way away from here?

The guy on the bike with the flag.  I predicted I would see him, but the koch brother tea bagger “No Treading On Me” flag,  that was a bonus!

 I sort of knew that bikers  would be readying  for a run at the Claw and Poke Tavern, but  did their weapon’s make them part of a Militia.  Or did it just  make them  cool. Or just unaware gun slingers not concerned with the expectations of a nation?

The unpredicted attraction of the day was the flag decorated fork lift driving to the parade,  packing on a pallet a painted musket toting fellow with "Never Surrender Our Guns" in big letters over his head. Was the fork lift driver another musket packing patriot? Just a  good guy with a gun? or a automatic weapon armed gun slinger?

Turning off the road, my memorial  day predictions  for a nation turned oil company with a huge military, where the over armed  citizens who  disregard their responsibility to  each other ,and elect people that are working hard to destroy democracy here. Is that the chaos for profit the rich have created  here  it isn’t going to end well... except for the rich, but then they knew that all along.
 

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