[Polynikes]

“Berkeley is chock-full of rude, angry people.”

Got that right. I have been to the Bowl. What you have to do is meet the jerks face to face. ie: If they get in your face you feed it right back. They act crazy but they aren't as crazy as they act and are basically cowards. If you make them realize what ever they think will happen will not be the way it will play out as in they will get hurt. It doesn't happen often but has worked ok for me. I make them aware I am capable and willing to deal as in if they don't STFU we will have a serious problem.

[crabpott]

On August 16th 1977 I was making a sales call on a camera store in the middle of Berkeley. The store had a radio on and they interrupted some Greatfull Dead pos drunge to mention Elvis had died. Never a big Elvis fan (I did see him sorta alive at a North Lake Tahoe casino a couple years earlier)but it kinda hit me. An American icon had died. Seeing my slightly shocked expression, a freaky clerk looked at me and in all perplexed seriousness and said “who???”.
I was 30 my and the wife was 22 and from Norway and she was still sniffling when I got home to Coupertino.
A 22 yo from another country was crying and some hippy clerk in Berkeley had not a clue.It was then a realized how huge the disconnect was and knew it would only grow.Thinking of that day still makes me sad.