Random El encounters.
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.
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Just a random attorney writing about daily life with Little Filthy, my rotten dog.
June 14th, 2008 at 2:52 am
That’s quite a lovely story, thanks for sharing. I love the random people you meet when out and about doing your daily business.
June 14th, 2008 at 7:10 am
I either love people or I hate them. Cool encounter
June 14th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Very cool
by the way – did you change something on your blog because I’ve had to add it to bloglines several times but it won’t show up anymore!
*cry*
June 15th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Yeah. It’s not updating in bloglines any more for me either
This post made me think a lot about random encounters with people over the years. Which is good
Thanks!
June 15th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Way cool.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Serendipity:)
June 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I think you have to be the kind of person who leaves themselves open enough to attract truly interesting people. It’s one of the best things about being an open book type of person… It’s rather fearless in a way, to make small talk and invite a perfect stranger into your little corner of the world. Even if it’s only for a train ride.
I would much rather be gloriously open and “me” and have weird or interesting encounters on a train than be safely shut up within myself observing all the time.
Good for you! Sounds like a decent way to spend a morning.
June 17th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Totally weird, but did you change your RSS feed? You don’t show up in my reader anymore. When I re-add you, it says your last post was on May 30. Boo, hoo! I haven’t been getting my RandomEsquire fix.
June 17th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Oh, duh, I should have read the comments above. I iz Captain Obvious.