Yesterday while tooling about on my lovely pink bicycle, yes I have a girly bike, with basket and pink tooty toot toot horn, anyway guess who I spotted while I was taking my Sunday ride, parked at an intersection in tony Hancock Park?  No, not him, not her either, Forget it I'll tell you, Congresswoman Maxine Waters.  Yep there she was idling at an intersection. 

I was waiting to cross 6th and Lucerne, when I noticed the car at the intersection wasn't moving, even though it had the green light.  After a few seconds I decided to take my chances and cross.  As I pedaled pass I looked inside the car and gave the driver a stern look, something like, "What's your problem?"  To my surprise, the driver was none other than Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who was being accosted and held captive by a mother of two toddlers she left sitting in strollers on the curb, to chat Maxine up about some rich stay at home mom issue, her neighbor who uses her recycle bins, or something like that. 

I pedaled passed, then decided to go back and find out what Maxine was doing outside of her district humoring an "o" subscriber? 

I must admit I was very impressed by how gracious Maxine was.  In the past, I accused her of being, shall we say, overly passionate and flamboyantly vociferous when she spoke, especially about her support of Hillary Clinton for President, but yesterday not a head roll or project neck did I see.  Keep up the good work Congresswoman Waters.

So there she was working on Sunday, yes I consider listening to women in too tight mom leggings droning on about issues better left to daytime TV as work, If she keeps this up she may be removed from my "Embarrassing Black Politicians" list, and in the running for the hardest working woman in "da house."

By the way, she was just a couple of blocks from the Mayor's mansion, and he's single, and always ready to mingle, and she was evasive about where she was coming from...  I'm just saying, could Hancock Park be the West coast version of the Appalachian trail?