Random Encounters of the Last Few Days

So in the last 4 days these random things have happened to me.

Chilling at a crosswalk with my ipod on and this sorta crazy looking homeless dude starts talkin to me. He mumbled (in a friendly way for a while) and then told me I should power my ipod with a potato. So on one hand it's true that potatoes can make electricity I wonder how many it would take for this to really work. Anyways he was nice.

Walking back from a bar me and two of my house mates say this shorter latino dude down accross the street carrying a big knife. He started to threaten us. It was awkward so we started running and saw a cop and told him what was up. I'm sad it made me take a detour from doing to Don Juan's for some drunk munchie pupusas but at least i didn't get stabbed.

Waiting for Mable and Gloria on 16th and U I was standing in a bus stop for shelter (this was during Snowpocalypse II) and there was this dude in like a german airforce flight suit. We chatted for a while over some ciggarettes he offered me and discussed his previous deployment as a Marine in Iraq and the difficulty of securing the Afghan/Pakistani border. We were in agreement that predator drones would not win the war. He was cool. His name was fred and he was on his way to law school eventually but was just looking for a bar.

Walking around last night I saw some kids throwing ice blocks at cars. They totally broke a cabbie's windshield. The cab driver was furious. When i went to CVS it looked like the cops had caught them but at the same time I thought the kids who did it were wearing all black so iunno.

Just now, at the starbucks I'm sitting in, a guy comes up to me and hes like if you let me use your computer for 10 mintues i'll give you 20 bucks. I was like what are yuo gonna do? and he was like check my email to get some numbers. So I told him i'd do it if he let me type. So he dropped 20 on my laptop and I was like ok lets do this. I was sorta worried he was like a terrorist or something but when we logged on to his hotmail it was all facebook and amazon updates. Anyways we found an email with some phone numbers and it took like 5 minutes and then he left. Easiest 20 I ever made.