When I get off work I try to take the time to walk back to the International District Station rather than just up to the Pioneer Square Station, but last night I was going to meet my brother in Southcenter so I decided to be quick about my travel.
The unfortunate thing about the 150 is it’s staggered schedule after around 6pm, so I had a good 30 minute wait for the bus. During that time I had “Welcome Home” by Radical Face on repeat-one and full blast (because obviously).
About ten minutes before the bus was supposed to arrive, an old man in a yellow shirt with a purple windbreak and pink lenses in his glasses approached me. He first asked me when the 150 would be arriving, and then asked me my name. I told him, and he introduced himself as Charles.
Charles then asked me how to spell my name, and if I would like to hear a poem. It went at follows:
Living God
Accepts and
Understands.
Reliable be he
Everyday;
Listen.
He put an emphasis on the last word (hence the italics) and smiled, and then walked away. He didn’t even get on the bus.
I was pretty taken aback by the whole thing, and if I’d had phone service I would’ve written about it right away. The timing of life is a really interesting thing, and I appreciated this strange encounter with a man who literally sees the world through rose-tinted glasses.
Fri 6/1 @ 9:37am #tag: personal
“I like that I stick out. I was watching ‘Valentine’s Day’ on the plane recently. I have a tiny part in that movie. I was watching all the women — Jessica Biel, and Emma Roberts, and Jennifer Garner and Julia Roberts. They are gorgeous women, and I don’t want to take anything away from them, but they all do have a very classical look, with a very thin nose. I’m watching this parade of these faces and then, boom, it was my face, and I was taken aback. I was like, ‘Oh, my nose is so big!’ I have never in my life thought I had a big nose, but, well, there it was. The first time I was on TV, on ‘Flight of the Conchords,’ someone put up a YouTube clip and said, ‘You’re too ugly to be on TV.’ And I was like, ‘That is exactly why it’s a good thing that I’m on TV.’”
(Source: eduardosuaverin, via tarantinoed)
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