Desolation Row memories

I guess you have to have a quirky sense of humor or something, I know when I told my family this story they were extremely upset if it ever happened, which of course, it didn’t.

I was in the mall the other day and was coming out of the washroom and there is a coffee shop. Three or four young women were sitting and talking when a new one walked over and one of the girls was very happy to see her and hugged her and she sat down. It just struck me, they were all “skinny girls” and the words just came into my head, as if Bob Dylan was standing next to me.

“And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls "Get outta here if you don't know, Casanova is just being punished for going to Desolation Row”.

Now in my world, these are standard lyrics which I would recognize immediately; however, these young women of perhaps 17 to 22 years old and would probably not know them. But…they were skinny girls…

I wondered to myself, what would happen if I shouted at them, “"Get outta here if you don't know that Casanova is just being punished for going
To Desolation Row!”

I thought about it and realized that maybe I could convince mall security and the local police that I was harmless, but I would never get back into the mall, and I would be no hero to anyone buy myself, and even then it might be rough going…..