“HAPPY BUMDOG PURIM!!!”

March 25 2016

It had been a rough few days. My food intake was sparse and far in between. Yesterday by about noon I hadn’t come up on anything to eat. Then I remembered this Chipotle coupon for a free burrito I had found awhile back.

The closest one to me at that moment was on Melrose and La Brea and in that direction I started trekking. But as I was walking I began to realize I was walking on a empty tank of gas. I wasn’t gonna make it. I didn’t have enough energy. In fact I was starting to get delirious, so much so I started to sing the song out loud “Delirious”: “I get DELIRIOUS, whenever you’re near!”.

Nothing else just that verse.

“I get DELIRIOUS, whenever you’re near!”
“I get DELIRIOUS, whenever you’re near!”

I imagine what a sight I was making, a 6'4 black man, walking down the street pushing my shopping cart, babbling out loud “I get DELIRIOUS, whenever you’re near!”….probable more common then I think.

If I was going to make it I had to find some food, so I headed for the Starbuck’s on Beverly Blvd, hoping to find some muffins or something in the dumpster. A couple of blocks before I got there I come across this Orthodox Jewish kid in some sort of costume riding a bike, when he sees me he rides over.

He says “Happy Purim! You want a [he says something in hebrew]?”

“What is that?”

“It means gifts to the people”

And he pulls out a bunch bags of variables and give me one. I thank him and he rides off.

It was a bag of chips, a soda, a sucker candy, and a yoyo.

I ate the chips and sucker, and down it with the soda. Then I played with the yoyo until I could make it go up and down at least once.

The food gave me enough energy to walk up to Chipotle and cash in the coupon for a burrito. But I was still hungry and headed up to a place I heard gives out food. When I got there it turned out they were closed on Thursday.

I rambled around for a few more miles through Hollywood, when I remembered my friend Woody Wise had a BBQ lunch truck he parked in front of LACMA. He told me if I ever get hungry come on by. So I trucked down to Wilshire and he hooked me up with enough BBQ Chicken and Mac and Cheese to last me through the next day.

That’s the Bumdog’s Purim Story. Ok they are not going to make a animated movie out of it, but there it is.