Sunday, April 23, 2006

Heard & Seen at the Corner of Robson & Thurlow

A large pickup truck heading westbound rigged with a platform at the front and monitoring equipment in the open-canopied back. One man on the platform operating the camera, two men in the cab, and two more in the back, a total of five.

Choppers in front of and burly men seated outside of the Starbucks on the S.W. corner of the intersection.

A wheelchair bound Asian man in his seventies swaddled in dark clothing listening to his iPod.

Two ladies in front of Banana Republic talking about The Hell's Angels.

A twenty-something guy wearing jeans and a red graphic tee shirt, captioned at the top with "I'd Rather Be", and below a map of Australia, the words "Down Under".

A thin 50-ish First Nations male with a single feather in his cowboy hat mentioning something about NASCAR to his female companion.

A very rotund man in his early twenties wearing an orange shirt heading east along Robson, a book visible through the translucent Chapters bag in hand.

A young man, maybe 19, smiles at me as I take a seat beside him in a store. He's waiting for his girlfriend, I my wife.

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What music? Which book?

Single or lonely? Out of love or in?

What did they have for dinner and with whom?

I swear, sometimes it's like taking a walk in the woods.

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