[Dixielandjazz] Pickpockets

[Pat Ladd]

Hi JIM,
didn`t really mean to rundown Madrid. What happened to us could have 
happened  anywhere in the world. New York, London they are all the same . If 
you act as stupidly as we did you get what you deserve. We have knocked 
around a bit and this was an uncharacteristic lowering of our guard. 
Normally we would have been much more `aware`. I think that it was a case 
that we had only that day met up with our American friends, who were coming 
to stay with us in Alicante and we were so busy talking and catching up we 
lost the plot.

Sometimes things can work out well. We have a friend, a French girl who 
married an American and lived in the Southern States somewhere. One day she 
decided to take her fairly new baby to France to show to her parents. This 
girl was daft as a brush and away with the fairies most of the time. I would 
not have trusted her to find her way home from the corner shop. With no 
luggage and wearing only a summer frock,. it was warm down South, . she 
started out for France. Via New York which had several feet of snow. By bus. 
Arriving in NY she had to get to the airport.. Clutching her baby she 
wandered off into the uncharted wastes of New York where in the middle of 
some area where the cops patrol in pairs she was accosted by a 6ft black 
guy.He demanded money. She explained that she had no money and nothing of 
value but her plane ticket and told him that she was trying to get home to 
France. This potential mugger escorted her out of the rough area she was in 
back to where the taxies ran. Found a taxi, paid the driver to take her to 
the airport and wished her well and said goodbye.

Doesn`t it restore your faith in human nature.????????

Cheers

Pat (Back to the music before the police come round)