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Have you ever liked something and felt guilty about it? It was several months ago that someone told me that the TV show The Walking Dead was a really good show. So I watched the first episode of the first season on Netflix and then told my wife about the show. The next night we watched the first and second episodes of the first season. She was hooked. Then a few nights went by and we got busy and didn’t get to watch it. One night we were in the kitchen washing dishes all by ourselves. The kids had gone to bed. The house was very quiet. I stood there drying the dishes while she washed at the kitchen sink and then quite abruptly she looked over at me, bent her head forward and pursed her lips over to the side.
“You wanna watch…….the show?” She said in a muffled voice like she just offered me a snort of cocaine.
I chuckled and said “Sure honey. You know the kids are all asleep in bed upstairs right? You don’t have to whisper.”
We both laughed.
That is kind of how I feel about liking the city of New Orleans. If you say you really love New Orleans to someone they will automatically think “oh yeah, you must be a partier. I bet you like to get drunk and go to girly bars and stay up all night.” You almost have to be careful who you tell. I just got back from the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting in New Orleans. I had a great time. And I only set foot on Bourbon Street in order to walk to Arnaud’s restaurant for brunch. Let me lay out the case for liking the city of New Orleans.
1. You can stay downtown New Orleans and walk almost everywhere.
2. If you can’t walk somewhere you can take the streetcar one way for $1.25 or three dollars and ride all day long.
3. In the French quarter, there is street after street of really good musicians, magicians and entertainers. You can watch them for free or you can give ’em a tip.
4. There is a lot of United States history in New Orleans
5. The World War II museum. Unbelievable. Humbling. Stay all day.
6. The restaurants.
7. The restaurants.
8. The restaurants.
And this is yet another reason it’s awesome being a doctor. National meetings in great cities. So there, I said it, I’m a Baptist deacon and I love New Orleans. Not the “drunken, prostitution, smell of vomit, crumbling infrastructure and crime-ridden” New Orleans, but the other New Orleans I love. And I love having a job that allows me to travel and be educated and enjoy unique cities.