Columbus is the 15th largest city in the US once a city gets that big the eccentrics just blend in. Unless you are wearing a live duck on your head not much is really shocking.

This is very true, big cities tend to make eccentricity normal. I live in a town of about 12,000 so I'm pretty recognizable. :eek:

I could easily become one with my "granny bike" but I refrain from going out on the streets since too many of us get killed by drunk drivers and other real crazies out there. It is no longer safe on the streets as an eccentric ol' man that looks like Burl Ives.

I love eccentrics, and people who march to the beat of their own tune! One of my boyfriends growing up was a Miccosukee Indian and he wore the traditional garments that the Seminole & Miccosukee men of the tribe wore centuries ago (a skirt and jacket of many colors that is the native garb), his nickname was "Medicine Man" and he was so neat, I loved him because he was totally himself!

I really worry about this guy. I had no idea drugs are as bad as they are in this town and he is on the streets at all hours on his bike. I know he has had the bike stolen before more than once. Some stupid drugged out kid ever gets the idea that he has some money on him and it could get bad. Im guessing he is in his early 70's but where he rides that bike he seems to be in good shape and he is really tall. I told Jon I worry about him so much. He was even living out of a rental storage unit for a while last summer for a few weeks. He told me the other day he has been staying with another older man the last few months taking care of him. He was complaining about the other man being a grouch lol. I didnt want to ask him where exactly he was staying cause he is so paranoid.