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I Survived the Parade of '05
Feb. 8th, 2005 01:26 pmI came in to work three hours before the parade was due to start, and the police barricades were already set up along the route. That made sense. What didn't make sense to me was how there were already people standing around waiting for the parade. Yeah, it's a nice day out (for February), but three hours of standing around? There were some vendors set up early, so they could buy stuff, but I still don't get it.
My building had signs on the doors: No Public Restrooms.
The crowds started gathering in earnest about an hour before the festivities, increasing noticeably. Even so, there were spaces along the barriers. Obviously, my building isn't in a prime viewing spot, not like Copley, for instance. People were hooting horns, police were standing along the route.
I went back to the windows once the parade had already started, a long line of duck boats with presumably famous football players standing in the back (except for the ones that were obviously cheerleaders) (What do cities without duck boats do for their sports parades?), the top of each duck boat covered in a banner of this or that parade sponsor. Red, white, and blue almost-confetti (it seemed a bit too large for confetti to me) was blown from the duck boats, theoretically over the crowd, but mostly over the police escorts. People cheered. Music played. And that was it.
I still don't understand sports fan mania.
My building had signs on the doors: No Public Restrooms.
The crowds started gathering in earnest about an hour before the festivities, increasing noticeably. Even so, there were spaces along the barriers. Obviously, my building isn't in a prime viewing spot, not like Copley, for instance. People were hooting horns, police were standing along the route.
I went back to the windows once the parade had already started, a long line of duck boats with presumably famous football players standing in the back (except for the ones that were obviously cheerleaders) (What do cities without duck boats do for their sports parades?), the top of each duck boat covered in a banner of this or that parade sponsor. Red, white, and blue almost-confetti (it seemed a bit too large for confetti to me) was blown from the duck boats, theoretically over the crowd, but mostly over the police escorts. People cheered. Music played. And that was it.
I still don't understand sports fan mania.