Attitude

I'm in New Orleans, and I've seen the gamut of attitudes. The friendly trolley drivers who answer the same questions over and over with humor and patience. The bored, tattooed, pierced and ill-mannered clerk who lets the old man in line ahead of me know what a pain he is for not knowing what she knows in all her eighteen years of wisdom. The tourists who represent every attitude from "Oh my goodness" to "How cool" to "Get me out of here".

I saw a poster that said something like "The difference between a catastrophe and an adventure is all in your attitude." That's not quite true: New Orleans faced a real catastrophe that hasn't faded from memory. Everywhere you hear references to "before Katrina" or "when Katrina hit..." But as far as their attitude goes, I have to say, these people haven't lost their sense of adventure.