SEE YA’ AT THE 7-11 by Steve Nadis
A couple of times a week, I go to the 7-11 in Central Square, Cambridge to buy milk. It’s a pretty bleak place; the lowest of the low camp out on the sidewalk, panhandling, intoxicated, and generally out of it. “Don’t lock your bike, buddy. We got it covered,” they always say. But I always lock it anyway. Perhaps they mean well, but if somebody made a play for my bike, do you really think they’d get up in time? Shopping there is a sobering experience. If I’m lucky, I’ll continue to be the guy buying the milk, not the guy sitting there on the sidewalk, or lying there on the sidewalk, with no place lower to fall.
Posted by
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02:52:57
I think I saw you sitting there once. Looked pretty comfortable, if you ask me.
Nah, that couldn’t have been me. Unless you happened by the time I fell off my bike. But don’t worry. I was back on my feet in no time.