Get Laid Right Around The Corner, Daniel

Oh, people do ask.

They just don't ask other people, because, what might the group of people in their immediate vicinity's knowledge amount to, compared to Google's?

But, it was eye-opening to learn that the hostel called India House, which is a stones throw away from where I sit right now, comes in at number one one the "Where can I get laid in New Orleans?" list.

In between me and that hostel sits the vacant Sacred Heart church, where, of course, you would be expected to marry whomever you met at the India House, before any such shenanigans were to take place...at least if you're Catholic, or any other flavor of Christianity.

And the bar that I play 50 feet from comes in at a modest 7th on the list.

Rebuttal

I have to stage a rebuttal to whomever this 5 star reviewer for tripadvisor is, who has managed to get his opinion placed at the top of the search results.

In "simple terms," the French Quarter is one of the safest places in the U.S.A., outside of places like Des Moines, Iowa, where the citizens become shocked by crime, because "nothing like that ever happens here." They also voted something like 64% for Donald John Trump, in that state. Just sayin'

...another PBR, or am I attractive enough already...?

I remember an evening about 3 years ago, when I was standing on the corner of Bourbon and St. Phillips, where were also a couple of middle aged black men. One of them said: "You would never see that, in Detroit or Chicago, or even San Franciso," referring to 2 late teens girls, dressed to kill and looking like models, walking by themselves toward Royal Street. You wouldn't see "that" in any Democrat run city, not just the ones that apparently well traveled guy mentioned...

And it is true.

There was the time when a woman's purse was snatched, seemingly emphasizing the point of the guy who said that the Quarter is no Disneyland, in terms of safety.

The woman reported the theft to the nearest officer she could find, who was not hard to find. He got on his radio, and a guy down at the Central Station, began to rewind through one of the bank of 36 screens he had in front of him, until he was able to observe the actual purse snatching, and then he tracked the guy from camera to camera (the French Quarter, as "small" as it is, is as close to being 100 percent "on camera," and the guy down at central quickly got back to real time, where the guy who had snatched the purse was in a little alley, going through the contents of said purse when officers pounced on him.

My friend Lilly, who has chaperoned her daughters everywhere they have gone in the Quarter, since they were born, had established a route between Brennan's restaurant, where both of her girls worked as greeters, or something, back to her house, in front of which I play.

...I'm at the India House, where my phone told me to go...now what do I do?

The entire route was within the purview of armed security personnel, with few gaps in between and they were tracked by cameras the entire way.

There is always going to be the potential for random actions by people who are allowed to drink in public, such as in the Quarter -I have often seen people puking because they had taken the occasion of a trip down here to overdo it, alcohol-wise; there are wedding parties here wherein often a minor or two are getting smashed for the first time in their lives. These types might be easy prey for the predators that lurk here, but their means wouldn't be to attack the person physically, but maybe try to con them out of money with, perhaps, the "I can tell you where you got your shoes" game.

The police have done a good job of weeding the violent drunks out from the happy drunks, as far as the permanent skeezer residents go, selectively enforcing certain laws, based upon whether or not the person is being a jerk towards tourists, or not. Yeah, you could go to jail for having a joint on you, a few years ago, but that wouldn't happen to a nice person, type of thing...

You just have to hope the person will have been weeded out before you encounter them.

As far as the shooting go, it is only through poor aim by the culprits that any innocent bystanders might be hit, but these are usually one group of usually people of color, shooting at each other, over whatever people of color shoot each other over, like in Chicago, where there might be 24 people shot any given weekend, and probably for the same reasons.

So, now that I've said my piece, let me wrap this up now. I'm kind of itching to go hang around the India House hostel for a little while; see what happens, type of thing...