Tiger Wasteland

Here are the pics that I managed to take before the deluge from Mother Nature rained on our parade and forced us under the shelter. The parade was festive even though it was wet. Momma Natural spared us a brief window of about an hour so the beginning of the parade made it to the final exit at Piedmont Park where the nephew and I stood guard just outside the 10th street entrance.

Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola were the main corporate sponsors of the parade, which makes sense. Both of their international headquarters are in the city, even though one of them is still trying to emerge from bankruptcy. Hence the car dressed in Delta drag.

The gay contingent of Veterans got a rousing applause, even though they cannot serve openly and honestly. Who says we don't support our troops?

There were the usual drag queens coming by in limos and we had to laugh at the straight couples (two of them) that were standing behind us. The guys kept asking if they were girls and we had to keep turning around and saying, "Dude, they are guys" over and over. Zack thought this was funny and so did I. The last one went by and he turned back to them and said, "It's another guy"! I peed my pants laughing.

And then something pissed off Mother Nature and the flood began. We ran to the nearest shelter (only about 500 feet away) and stood there and watched the tail end of the parade. While we were there, these two ladies (term used loosely) came off of one of the floats and nudged their way next to us. They were dressed appropriately for someone on a float for an adult superstore and the nephew was in heaven. They had on thongs and sexy attire and they were made up to the hilt. If the rain had not come, they would have been gorgeous but somehow looked all wet. We chit chatted and they offered us drinks from their cooler.

(to be continued)