My one and only goal for the night is to find a unique and appropriate gift for a good friend
August 27th, 2008
“Son of a bitch, you’re running up the meter!”27 comments
August 20th, 2008
"Hey bro, remember me? You wrote that story about me in the paper."3 comments
August 13th, 2008
“It’s the Californians, man, the Californians are the worst.”15 comments
August 6th, 2008
The middle-aged man I picked up at Vendetta is in a hyperactively verbose lather ...0 comments
July 23rd, 2008
When I step into the obese old woman's apartment5 comments
July 16th, 2008
The obese old woman at Fred Meyer has a bad hip and a wheelchair...8 comments
July 9th, 2008
“...I need to take a shower first and wash all of this blood off.”6 comments
July 2nd, 2008
“So I’ve got these two women in the back of my cab who just refuse to get out...”8 comments
June 25th, 2008
“My friend’s getting divorced, and he’s really drunk,” says the bartender...8 comments
June 18th, 2008
There’s nothing like a good Friday night, and I’m referring to the money.3 comments
[June 20th, 2007] My one and only goal for the night is to find a unique and appropriate gift for a good friend of mine, an experimental percussionist. I haven't had any success thus far and my last trip of the night, a rowdy bunch of bar employees, doesn't seem to be full of leads.
They're loud and drunk, and one of them's questioning me about whether or not I know any of the skateboarders who drive cab. I'm not that bothered—bartenders know how to tip, and it's always good to hear stories about my co-workers.
The loud one gets sidetracked by his friend, so the cute girl sitting shotgun and I make idle chit-chat. We talk about cabdrivers, which leads to a discussion about a band I'm in, which leads to her mentioning that she has a marimba that she never learned to play, which leads to a discussion about hippies, which—
Wait, about that marimba....
"Yeah," she says, "it's this awesome one that this guy made by hand. It's really fantastic, but it just gathers dust in the corner of my apartment."
I start working the angles. Yes, it turns out, she would be happy to see it go to a good home. The price she names is beyond reasonable—it's a huge bargain.
I get her number, and the instrument ends up being even better than she'd described it. I buy it, my friend loves it, and the subsequent CD-R gets a lot of compliments from fares.
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I apologize for the misspelling of fairytale, thanks Val. I'm sure you've never misspelled anything in your life.
Hey sooz, you should look up the definition of serendity. Sometim...
Serendity?
Err, try serendipity. Much appreciated Val. Keep up the good work.
i like fairytale endings. i like fairytell endings as well.
my concern: where's jeff taylor?
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