A Damsel in Distress...

Homelessness for Stupid People

The foibles of the most pampered homeless population in the Bay Area...

It's a guy thing... Damsels in Distress just... it's a guy thing, and if you're female, you just won't get it! I don't have to explain it to the guys, so I won't bother...

It's about eleven thirty Sunday Morning and I'm sitting outside the Library having a smoke. I hear a woman's voice behind me filled with distress telling someone to leave her alone. I recognized the woman I saw as one of the homeless. I had seen only a couple of times before at Vineyard and Asbury churches. She's one of those people who strikes me as a little lost... the type that always seems to hook up with the wrong people... funny how lately I'm never wrong about that.

But she's absolutely in a state of distress at this point, so much so that people there are watching her. I did not see who she was speaking with.

Back inside Tommie's I introduce myself and ask her how she's doing. We exchanged pleasantries and she begins to tell me about herself.

Gina's been in town about a month. She was telling me various things about herself as we sat at the window counter and, as she was, I looked up and watched Adam Parris walk around the corner. My blood boils every time I see this “man” who I consider to be the slimiest of characters.

“Look who's here,” I said. “It's the rapist...”

Gina looked up and panicked.

“That's the guy I'm trying to get away from!”

And with that, she bolted, and I do mean BOLTED into the women's bathroom.

I walked outside and told him I'd called the police on him, and he promptly disappeared.

What's funny is that I thought I was done talking about Adam Parris. Maybe the time he's been spending in Pleasanton made him think enough time had passed that I'd forgot about him.

Gina stayed in the women's bathroom till about the time the library opened. She was loath to come back into Tommie's till I told her Adam was gone.

At that point, she began to tell me what had happened.

She met him only this morning when, she tells me, he nearly crashed into her on the way to McDonald's on P and Olivina. At first, he seemed nice. He showed her a photograph of his two year old daughter (the mother of which, I am told, is the same woman from this story).

Suddenly, Adam begins to talk about how he and she are now “Boyfriend and Girlfriend,” something that made Gina leery and very uncomfortable.

On their bicycles, Gina and Adam began making their way to the Library stopping at a store along the way. During the trip, Adam, Gina said, tried to kiss her and paw at her and generally became insistent that he had every right to put his hands on her.

By the time Gina arrived at the Library, she wanted nothing more than to get away from Adam. That is when I first saw her this morning...

We went back outside, and I asked her to walk with me around the Library to see if he was still around, but Gina was not at all comfortable with that. So we sat and had a smoke, and I managed to convince her to talk to LPD.

She's been out with a young LPD Lawman for about half an hour. I've already given him my part, which, of course, wasn't much. But... Adam, just so you know: NOBODY has forgot who and what you are!

At Gina's insistence, I have to mention that the Lawman she spoke with was “Insanely Cute...” Be Careful Cute Young LPD Lawman... you have a new fan.

Through the grapevine I'm now told Adam Parris is on his way to Mountain View... maybe he'll stay there a while...