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
[February 1st, 2006] This girl, there's something about her. She's carrying a fruit platter to a party, to a location she's unfamiliar with. And I completely screw it up.
I'm heading east on Fremont, jig left when I should have jigged right, and end up circling Rocky Butte. Which is, ahh, rather remote. I apologize profusely, but she just laughs it off, which I soon realize is indicative of her general attitude toward life. And it gives us more time to talk. And man...this girl makes my attitude to my back problems and depression and weight gain seem incredibly petty.
We start by saying that she doesn't drink much, and neither do I. Caffeine is her drug of choice, as is true of me. But then her reasons for such abstinent behavior begin to come out. She has lupus, which is a serious auto-immune disorder; it can cause serious disability and kill you in the end.
A drunk driver hit her and her mother. Her mother was killed; my passenger was told that with the injuries and the lupus, she'd never walk right again. She now runs marathons. Her attitude toward her illness, her injuries, her accident is both so matter-of-fact and utterly inspiring that I'm glad I got us so horribly lost in order to learn the lesson she taught me.
There's always somebody who has it worse than you. And they may just be handling it better.
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