Random Esquire

Today, when I got to my El stop, I saw the same “pregnant girl” hitting up some guy for money.  He gave her a few bucks and she walked away.  I grinned at the guy and said, “She’s been pregnant now going on two years.”  He laughed and said, “She got angry at me because I made her show me her arms.”  I laughed.  We were sitting next to each other on a bench.
A friend noticed him and they had a mini reunion.  He was wearing a baseball cap and his hair was short – she greeted him and said, “Did you get your hair cut??”  She told him she was studying for the bar and I gathered that he was an attorney as well after he expressed his relief at not having to go through that again.  They talked for a while and she asked how he’d been.  I had politely turned away and was looking down the tracks, waiting for the train.

He said, “Well, actually, I should tell you never to work for (some dude) because we all end up getting cancer! See?”  And then he must have taken off his hat because she said, “Ohhh my gosh, I thought you’d just had a hair cut.”

The train arrived and the guy and I got on.  He sat across from me and we started to talk. I told him I was an attorney, too.  Turns out he does solo practice and has represented some really rough people.  He said, grinning, “That’s why I made the girl show me her arms.”

He got off the train and handed me his business card and said, “You know…if you get into trouble!”  I laughed.

Dude, sometimes you meet some great people on the train.