Portland never ceases to amuse me, I go through my day without getting anyone saying hello to me, to many people I don't exist. However, I have seen people stopping their car on road junctions to tell me how they like my "rainbow bike riding gloves that I wear in solidarity with global LGBTQs equality and freedom", I have seen women on trains and buses tell me how they like my shoes or my pirate hat . Initially, I responded by telling them that acknowledging me as a human being is better than complimenting my shoes,gloves or pirate hat.

Today,in my pirate cap, at the trimex station, a younger lady,in a group other women,shouted " I love your hat'", I responded to her that, I wish you say I love you then compliment my hat''. She then shouted, "Noooo'' before her colleagues burst in laughter, ofcourse aI was joking or kidding her to see from my lens. I see strangers hug stranger dogs without evwn saying hello to its owners on the buses or sidewalks. This speaks volumes about American society. If you don't acknowledge my presence, or humaness, do me a favour don't compliment any of the things I am wearing, I am.okay and used to that.

Iam human,who loves human connection and acknowledge, where possible, I do love to be loved. Since people think I don't deserve that,they shouldn't extend to what am wearing because it's another indirect way of telling me, I am less of a human being. That's how I see it.