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
[April 5th, 2006] I'm leaving the Walgreen's on Belmont, on my way to an order at Powell's on Hawthorne, when a guy walks up and asks me to take him to the Safeway at Lloyd Center. So I give back the Powell's order and let him in.
Young guy, fairly cute, pleasant conversationalist. We talk about his job; he does custom tile installations. I discuss my one rather, ah, interesting experience with trying to tile a bathroom myself. He asks if I'm having a good night. Well, I was...
When we get to Safeway, he wants me to wait while he gets a few things. "No offense, man, but I need you to leave something with me: a cell phone, something, " I say. His response: "I don't have a cell phone."
"Then an ID, just anything." "All I have is my ID, which I'll need because I'm going to write a check and get cash back to pay you." "Dude, I get ripped off like this all the time—you need to leave something." "Oh, that's not cool, people actually do that to you? Trust me, I'm not going to."
He was friendly, he was sincere, I let him go. I should have made him take off his jacket and his hat.
The meter was at $20 when I went into the store to look for him, to no avail. I have a fairly extensive vocabulary, but I completely and utterly lack sufficient invective to describe both this person and what I want to do to him.
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