Another Random Story
Jan. 21st, 2006 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarYesterday I was wandering around downtown, post-library. Stopped at the Baltimore Street lightrail stop...to catch the lightrail back up to the Cultural Center, I didn't feel like walking anymore with a backpack full of books. (I checked out a bunch of books.)
I'm standing there, waiting and reading my book of No Informative Value (TM). Some guy walks up to me, Stands in front of me and states for a minute. I do nothing at first. Then I look up and he looks kinda funny for a second and says "Where did we meet before?" To which I answered "I don't know that we did. We might have but I'm afraid you don't look familiar." He considers this for a miute and then walks on without saying a word and asks for a quarter.
About 30 seconds later, he comes back to me, pulls a Bible tract from his waist pack and holds it out to me. I say no thank you. He says "God bless you", "I say God bless you" and walks a short way down the line of people waiting for a the train, alternately offering Bible tracts and begging for change. Then he comes back to me and holds out another Bible tract, this one with two intertwined pink "female" symbols, and a title "What About Homosexual Marriage?"
He says "Maybe you'd like this better?"
I say "No, thank you."
He raises his voice a bit and says "But it's about Jesus! And salvation!"
I say "I understand. Thanks." And the train pulls up. And I get on it and go home.
That is all.
I'm standing there, waiting and reading my book of No Informative Value (TM). Some guy walks up to me, Stands in front of me and states for a minute. I do nothing at first. Then I look up and he looks kinda funny for a second and says "Where did we meet before?" To which I answered "I don't know that we did. We might have but I'm afraid you don't look familiar." He considers this for a miute and then walks on without saying a word and asks for a quarter.
About 30 seconds later, he comes back to me, pulls a Bible tract from his waist pack and holds it out to me. I say no thank you. He says "God bless you", "I say God bless you" and walks a short way down the line of people waiting for a the train, alternately offering Bible tracts and begging for change. Then he comes back to me and holds out another Bible tract, this one with two intertwined pink "female" symbols, and a title "What About Homosexual Marriage?"
He says "Maybe you'd like this better?"
I say "No, thank you."
He raises his voice a bit and says "But it's about Jesus! And salvation!"
I say "I understand. Thanks." And the train pulls up. And I get on it and go home.
That is all.
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