Despite the topic title – no, this topic is not about Paris Hilton. Hope that doesn’t disappoint.
This evening Mike and I traveled out to Bazemore Park in Garden City (a suburb of Savannah) to see Mike’s nephew’s little league game. After a bit of difficulty parking, we walk up to the gate, were about to stroll in when a grumpy old man in a lawn chair says to us, “You gotta pay.”
We’re dumbfounded for a second. We recover and spew the obvious litany of questions and statements – pay? we’re here to see family. this is a little league game. this is a public park. no one from Savannah carries cash on them. are you serious? who pays for little league games?
Old jerk wasn’t budging and told us if we didn’t pay we couldn’t get in. So we left, pissed off.
Seriously, beachcombers, have you ever heard of anything so freakin stupid? Have YOU ever paid to see a little league game? Without getting too Sharpton here, I have a hunch this was a way to keep the black people out of the white, suburban park. A cursory look around the park certainly supported this theory. All white families on the inside, black families outside the fences. No matter what the reason, it wasn’t right. Bazemore Park is a taxpayer funded public park and by it’s very design should always have free entry.
Thanks to Bazemore Park for reinforcing my belief that cities are better than suburbs. The ‘burbs are for pukes.