[NON BLOG] A Brief Encounter
Jul. 28th, 2004 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldLast night at a quarter to eleven, as I was walking south on Spadina, I was accosted by a man riding a bike. He was fairly thin and wearing a red-orange T-shirt and some jeans; the bike he was riding looked old, a barely clean green metal frame with two mismatched tires.
He offered to sell the bike to me for 15 dollars. I made a counteroffer for five, explaining when he protested that I only had five dollars on me. He went on and offered to sellthe bike to me for ten dollars, but I refused and chatted with him for a bit longer.
I popped into a Chinese restaurant to ask the proprietor what the large hunk of meat he was hosting was. As it happened, it turned out to be pork. I exited the building to see the bikerider engrossed in some kind of dealmaking with a third person, but the time that I'd progressed to the intersection of Spadina and Dundas at the heart of Chinatown (northwest corner, incidentally) he caught up to me. He offered to sellme the bike for five dollars, claiming that he really needed food. I felt uncomfortable, and left after turning down the offer.
Now, the poll:
[Poll #327690]
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He offered to sell the bike to me for 15 dollars. I made a counteroffer for five, explaining when he protested that I only had five dollars on me. He went on and offered to sellthe bike to me for ten dollars, but I refused and chatted with him for a bit longer.
I popped into a Chinese restaurant to ask the proprietor what the large hunk of meat he was hosting was. As it happened, it turned out to be pork. I exited the building to see the bikerider engrossed in some kind of dealmaking with a third person, but the time that I'd progressed to the intersection of Spadina and Dundas at the heart of Chinatown (northwest corner, incidentally) he caught up to me. He offered to sellme the bike for five dollars, claiming that he really needed food. I felt uncomfortable, and left after turning down the offer.
Now, the poll:
[Poll #327690]
E-mail me if you're not on livejournal.
