Stranger Encounters: Santa Hat: First Day

Excerpt from mail sent in 1998

Within two minutes of putting on my new Santa hat and walking the streets of Berkeley, a passerby gently clutched my arm and told me what he wanted for Christmas.

What I replied:
"I'll see what I can do."
What I should have replied:
"If you keep on tossing your empty Olde English cans into the street like that, you're getting coal in your stocking."
I'm glad I didn't reply:
"Even if I could could fit a Cadillac and a 'Fine-ass bitch, big, maybe eight feet tall' into my sack, what makes you think I'd share?"

I'll get the hang of this eventually.

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