Quirk Factor Five
Whilst jogging ’round McKinley park today, I came across a new thing. Having been jogging around this particular 1.02 mile stretch of Sacramento for over ten years now, I thought I was pretty inured to the sights: sorority girls busily eliminating incipient beer guts, soccer moms pushing BOBs, that one guy with the half shirt who looks like he’s doing five-minute miles, alterna-weddings in the rose garden, and hosts of other things. Today, however, brought a bit o’ the auld sod, as a bagpiper in full regalia was laying down some phat skirls over by the tennis courts.
This is the kind of thing that makes me happy to live here.
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One of my favorite Sacramento memories is golfing early on a Saturday morning in Land Park. As we approached the 8th green, we could make out in the fog near the bandstand (near Freeport and Sutterville) the shapes of several men in kilts playing the bagpipes. Golf and bagpipes! Together in Sacramento.
I think I saw that guy in Capitol Park once.
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I think bagpipers are cool, though.