Sunday, August 16, 2009

Men Soliciting Sex in Parks in Bakersfield

Undercover investigation: Men soliciting sex in parks

That is an article in the BakersfieldNow website.  In the 1970's and 80's this was apparently a very typical thing, men going to the park and sitting in the cars and/or going to the bathroom and exposing themselves hoping to have sex with someone either in the bathroom, their car or going somewhere else.

I go on the bike trail and I pass 3 parks (as seen in my BikeCam videos) and I see children playing sports, people exercising and children on bikes, they don't need to see this.  What is wrong with people?  These children use those bathrooms and that's the last thing kids need is to go to the bathroom at Yokuts and Beach park and see 2 men having sex.

What really pisses me off is that these people are adding to the laundry list of why straight people hate gay people.  It's not just gay people, it's straight people who are doing it but that doesn't get put in the newspaper or on the news, they focus more on the gay people doing this.  If people want to find other people to have sex why can't they do what normal people do, go to a bar and end up going home with someone.  Do whatever you gotta do but don't go to the park and do something gross like having sex in cars and in the bathroom.

I have actually seen men and women making out in cars at 2 parks, 1 of them is by a Catholic school too which is in a neighborhood.  Plus I've seen straight people making out at the parking lot across the street from AAA on Truxton Ave.  I see these people doing this and all I can think is that they aren't married, they are probably cheating on their spouses because trust me, if you are as old as these people are and you are having to make out with someone in your car, you aren't married to them, you are cheating and most likely because your husband or wife don't have sex with you anymore so you are sneaking around.

I have seen straight people doing this several times but I have yet to see any gay people in cars.  I don't ever use the bathroom unless I am so desperate to go to the bathroom.  I'm a bit of a germaphobe so I would prefer not to sit on public toilet seats.  Peeing is one thing but if I see someone standing at a urinal I will use the stall to pee.  I don't use park bathroom stalls because they don't have doors.  So you won't see me in the park bathrooms unless I REALLY needed to go lol.

My Pez Collection Video

Recently I posted pictures of my Pez Dispenser collection but then I decided that I wanted to do a video so here it is.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGmC_PeJwRQ

Clay's Restaurant

California Avenue IHOP becomes independent eatery

November 28th 2008, IHOP in Bakersfield became Clay's Restaurant.  We've been going to that IHOP since 2000 but we don't always have the money to be regulars.  We only go once in awhile.  But we actually haven't been there at all since they changed their name to Clay's.

Well this morning Chip wanted to go out for breakfast and the place that he chose was closed for some strange reason.  So he said well let's go to Denny's.  I said that's too far.  He said where do you want to go and I said "well we haven't been to Clay's yet" so that's where we went.

We get there and are seated right away.  There was a person we knew who was leaving so Chip wanted to talk to him before we sat down.  Our host had our menu's sitting open on the table waiting for us which I thought was very nice.

So we order and our food comes, I ordered the #6 2 eggs, 3 bacon, 3 sausage, hash browns and pancakes.  Chip ordered chicken fried steak with gravy, eggs, hash browns and toast.

I can't speak for him but he didn't complain about his food.  My food was pretty good.  The sausage was different though, it wasn't over cooked and wrinkly, it was a nice light shade of brown and it was smooth.  The bacon was also very flat and smooth and it tasted good.  The pancakes were smaller but I guess they can't sell pancakes that look exactly like IHOP's so they just made them smaller.  The hash browns weren't crispy which is IHOP's signature hash browns but that was fine.  It was still good.  Normally scrambled eggs are 1 solid color but mine weren't mixed completely so you could see the yellow and white.  That's not a bad thing, the eggs were good but it was just different.

Our waitress was Donna and she was a very nice woman.  We asked her if the business has suffered since they changed their name to Clay's and she said that there aren't as many customers as when they were IHOP but the customers are coming back.  I can say that I would definitely come back because the food was very good.

Clay's Restaurant is located at 1530 California Ave. in Bakesfield, CA.  There are also other Clay's, I just know about this one and the one over by Valley Plaza on Ming.  I would recommend Clay's and I give them 5 stars.