This morning, before I went to the gym, I made a quick stop by the garbage to throw out the refuse from the litter box. I walked down the stairs and turned the corner and I could see someone standing in the area where are the dumpsters are. I knew what was going on immediately. A fucking bum was relieving himself on my apartment building. C'mon, dude.

The guy saw me and tried to hide, but I was carrying a sack of cat shit that needed to tossed and I wasn't about to turn around. I press forward, and I see this with his dick in his hand standing in front of a puddle of urine, and looking seriously embarrassed. This is happening in Alameda. Fucking Alameda.

Now Alameda is not the lily white suburb of San Francisco that it was in the days when the Naval Air Base was operating at the tip of the island, but it's a far, far way from the city where, if you don't come to expect this sort of behavior, you at least tolerate it to some extent. My apartment bills itself as a "luxury apartment home" and the houses across the street have yachts and sailboats moored out back. So the last thing I expect to see is some transients pissing on my building in broad daylight.