in the news

Several years ago I blogged about a late night walk down Lawndale near Broadway.

As I walked I found the remains of a wallet included several hundred dollars in cash, lots of credit cards, a driver's license, etc.

The shade tree car repair place seemed to be open, this was probably close to 10 PM. So I went by to ask if someone lost a wallet. No maybe that is not what happened. I was going to say I went over to see but no I think someone came out while I was picking it all up and asked what I was doing. I was not on his property and he asked in a friendly fashion. He said the wallet belonged to someone who dropped it as he left and he was coming back to get it.

So I gave it to him. I was planning to call the guy anyway. I had been picking stuff up slowly and carefully all the while looking for evidence of the guy who dropped it. I told myself I was doing this to be helpful. Of course the temptation to think "Finders keepers!" was also there.

I want to say that I did see a car come back. I do think I saw the man who lost the wallet. But my memory is not clear on that.

Anyway the point of this is that I saw in the news that the same business was busted the other day for selling drugs. They were probably doing the same thing several years ago when I passed by.

I have walked late at night on several occasions because it is cooler. In the summer it is not nice to walk during the day. Mornings are better but if I do not get up in the mornings evenings are second best.

In the area when I live there are quite a few businesses open late at night for no obvious reason. I see what appear to be machine shops and what appear to auto repair shops. It could be some industrious soul is working late but I can imagine other less legal things. Obviously I just walk on by. I do not engage them or ask curious questions. This last new item confirmed that sometimes my fears could be right.