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So I took a 25 pound turkey downtown to Camillus house today to do my good deed and help feed Miami’s homeless population (if Don King can give away 100,000 turkeys every year, I can give away one.)  Camillus House is a wonderful organization that has been helping feed and care for homeless people in Miami for years.  And, since I was almost half way to Miami Beach at that point and it was a beautiful day in South Florida and the real estate business is what you might charitably describe as slow, I decided to pay a visit to South Beach.  I parked on Washington Avenue and walked over to Ocean Drive, the road closest to the beach where all the sidewalk restaurants are.  With the exception of the venerable News Cafe, every single one of the others had “1/2 off menu prices”, “50% off” or some such variation of sign out front.  This along with good looking girls hawking the places and waving menus at largely disinterested passers by.  I sat an an outside table at Prime Time, the cafe in front of the Waterford Towers hotel.  I watched the cute young thing at the neighboring Caffe Milano really try hard to get anyone to sit down for about 45 minutes as I ate lunch.  She must have smiled broadly at 100 people and the only person that stopped to talk to her was asking directions to another restaurant.  I finished half of my very bad reuben sandwich with a side of coleslaw and asked her how long she had been doing that job.  She said about a week and she was going back to waitressing.  She’d rather wait tables than be ignored.  Tough job. 

If you’d like to find out more about South Florida real estate or homes in easy-living South Miami/High Pines, you can reach me at 305-401-8058 or bishopric.r@ewm.com.

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