Last night on the way from the office to the train, I see a guy waving and smiling towards me — but I don’t recognize him, know him, so I figure he’s waving to someone behind me. I don’t acknowledge him, but as I walk past, he starts talking to me. I can smell the booze on his breath (of course) and can’t understand more than a third of the words he’s saying. I manage to pick out “brother” “unemployment office” and a few other words from a hard-luck story….<\/p>\n
He tells me I look like a “smart guy;” like an “officer” and I wonder if my buzz cut (and my sheer buffitude) makes me look like I’m in the military or something.<\/p>\n
But I’m not worried until he says he’s “got nothing left to lose” because those have got to be the words most often heard immeditately prior to a murder. Oy yoy yoy.<\/p>\n
He never asks me for money though, so I don’t give him any and make it into the train station no worries.<\/p>\n
Bizarre? Indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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