Dang Larry that shot is a kick! I saw you converted it from a color image - I often do that as sometimes that is how it should be but you didn't have B&W film in the kamera.
I know that this is not a purist philosophy, but if I'm not sure on what my subject matter and/or the conditions would be I load color film. That way I have both color and B&W images available from the same roll if need be.
I don’t even know any longer what a purist philosophy actually entails, outside of film and wet printing, which, sadly, isn’t a realistic option for me. Once you are committed to a hybrid technique, that does offer alternate, almost endless, possibilities. The filmstrip is just the raw material to my way of thinking. There are so many ways to massage tones and colors, once digitized, that it seems almost perverse not to take advantage of those options in trying to get a final image that somehow works for you.
Whether it works for anyone else is always a separate question.
I think you are right about always being open to using a given color negative to make a monochrome print, much more so now than in the past.
And, thanks! I liked this one in Black and White as well. It was a cheaper film, shot at dusk in poor light conditions, and poorly developed at a drug store, so there was some (!) grain and general splotchiness which worked better when it wasn’t in color. The color print went into the round file, but you never know what you can do with a negative until you try.