The Silence Club and N.L. meet the same Bakersfield bum - By N.L. Belardes

The new Silence Club video is definitely worth a look. I get a cameo and so does Black Dog. The funniest part is not that The Silence Club invites a bum to the show. What cracks me up is that very morning (Saturday) I was out on a bike ride and the pedal snapped off my bike as I was going downhill on Chester Avenue near 34th Street. I was headed to the Kern River Recreational Path. Well, OK, that part was funny, but that's not what I meant...



I ended up in the parking lot of the burger joint on the corner of 34th and Chester. After a little while the very same bum in The Silence Club video walked up to me and said, "You found it!"

"Oh yeah?" I had attached the pedal and pedal arm back on the bike but couldn't tighten the bolt even though I tried with a rock, caveman style.

"You found your pedal. Oh man I saw you. I used to have a bike. But they stole it."

"Oh man. Sucks."



"You should go across the street and have them fix it," he pointed to a car body paint garage.

"Nah. I'll just take it to the bike shop."

"OK, well I'll see ya," he said, staring at my bike.

"Later, man..."

Who would have thought the same bum would be less kind to Aaron on the same day?

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