Coin Flip Anthony
OK, so his name isn't really "Coin Flip Anthony", it's just Anthony. But my walk today was based on a coin flip - heads I walk east, tails I walk west. Heads it was, so I walked east.
There are always interesting people down by the L tracks on Ashland, so as I walked towards the corner, I spotted Anthony getting a light from a woman on the corner. As we passed each other, I gave him my "Excuse me, but…" speech. He politely listened and had no problem posing for a picture.
As I shook his hand and was about to ask for his first name, who should come out of the door (you can see just a sliver of it on the right) but John (www.flickr.com/photos/26178772@N02/20707906692/in/datepos...). He and I had had a bit of a dust up/misunderstanding a few months back, but it seems to be all in the past. I called him by name (it was an encounter I did not forget), and he smiled sheepishly and said "Damn! You remembered my name. I forgot yours." I talked to him and a few of his female friends for a few minutes, we had a good laugh about our original "altercation", we shook hands, and I turned back to Anthony to ask for his name. John and his friends were glad to see that I had asked Anthony first, and had not forgotten my "lesson" from our first meeting.
Coin Flip Anthony
OK, so his name isn't really "Coin Flip Anthony", it's just Anthony. But my walk today was based on a coin flip - heads I walk east, tails I walk west. Heads it was, so I walked east.
There are always interesting people down by the L tracks on Ashland, so as I walked towards the corner, I spotted Anthony getting a light from a woman on the corner. As we passed each other, I gave him my "Excuse me, but…" speech. He politely listened and had no problem posing for a picture.
As I shook his hand and was about to ask for his first name, who should come out of the door (you can see just a sliver of it on the right) but John (www.flickr.com/photos/26178772@N02/20707906692/in/datepos...). He and I had had a bit of a dust up/misunderstanding a few months back, but it seems to be all in the past. I called him by name (it was an encounter I did not forget), and he smiled sheepishly and said "Damn! You remembered my name. I forgot yours." I talked to him and a few of his female friends for a few minutes, we had a good laugh about our original "altercation", we shook hands, and I turned back to Anthony to ask for his name. John and his friends were glad to see that I had asked Anthony first, and had not forgotten my "lesson" from our first meeting.