The Festival

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The Festival


             Though they called it the Pride Parade to Max it looked more like a festival of sorts.  Max went

to the parade more as a way to support his friend Sabrina than for himself.  Then Sabrina just sat back

in her chair looking on, gathering things from by passers. Max just looked on in shame for even being 

there.

            Max saw people young enough at the parade to still be in diapers, and old enough to be in 

nursing homes.  Yet to his dismay he saw a man who's gender had been changed running around 

without a shirt, showing off his breast.  Then there was also a overly fat man wearing only red 

underwear on.  Even though Max thought that the police should have done something in both of these 

cases they were just there for crowd control not to start a riot.

            A fifteen year old caught Max off guard when he slapped him on top of the head.  Max told him,

"I  know you were only playing, but you need to find someone closer to your own age to play with.  As 

for me I am an old man, and am celibate to boot.  If you do not know what celibate means it means 

being A-sexual by choice."

           After Max had spoken these words to the lad, his parent had a few words with him.  They then 

took him down the street and blended in with the crowed.
            
          Max realized that if things  had been different when he was younger he might have enjoyed the 

parade with it's festival activities.  Yet due to events that had happened in his life, and his upbringing

he was uncomfortable even being there.  Other things that he saw in disbelief at the pride parade was a 

gun control rally in the middle of the parade.  Then towards the end of the parade there was the more 

liberal churches marching through the parade like the Methodist, the Disciples of Christ, and the UCC. 

Being a member of an evangelical church he found the other churches marching in the pride parade to 

be embarrassing. 
            
             Sabrina said that he was a grump.  Max just smiled and told her, "the girls in front of him kept

 pushing him back so he could not have anything.  Parades are for the youth.  This parade was a 

festival anyway".
Paul D. Eccles

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