Chapter 61
THE NEW MEETING LOCATION for BARB was an old storefront on Grant Street on the West Side. The Grant Street Association shared offices there. Rex helped form that non-profit, too, but left to concentrate on BARB.
At six o'clock Rex, Sheila, Lydia, Stevie, Tim Wrightson, and a few newbies, milled about talking to each other. Laura wasn't there, and neither was Jim Bellows.
Rex started the emergency meeting off. “Okay, thanks for coming, everyone. As you all know, we had a serious incident at the Critical Mass ride last night after someone threw tacks on the trail by the small boat harbor.”
“It was the frigging pigs!” one of the newbies, a young Latina woman, yelled. The others all started adding their opinions, and it became one big cacophony of noise.
Tim Wrightson started t
