It's just Tourette's

Props to WilliamTed for this blog entry showing a slice of San Francisco life. The "Shouting Man" whom he profiles has been there a lot longer than the seven years he's seen him, though. He was there in the early 1980s when I had a long-running temp job in that district. One thing WilliamTed doesn't seem to realize is that the "Shouting Man" isn't really a colorful San Francisco character -- like Mr. Lee, the Chinese guy who walks up and down the Financial District carrying a sign with a delusional screed about "12 Galaxies" and various names from presidential history. The "Shouting Man" merely has Tourette's Syndrome.