My Last Hundred Bucks: The Swifts Were Great Though, Top Notch Swift Performance
Where’d your last hundred bucks go, William Foster?
$80, City of Portland (Parking Ticket). I was going to watch the swifts at the Chapman School, and it was busy and crowded and I parked in a no-parking spot … and I got a ticket. It’s like the ’90s dot-com boom in San Francisco when IPO-rich assholes would just park their 911s on the sidewalk directly in front of wherever they were going. I’m that way now. I am above the law, no question, and I have cash billowing out of my pockets. (That is not true; I thought I was risking maybe $25, $40 at most.)
$20 (approx.), Beaverton New Seasons Market. Ingredients for a curried peanut soup and the sweetest, bluest Frostie on the shelf.
William Foster lives in Portland, Ore. The swifts haved moved on.
Feel like you might be my soulmate!
@iffie I FEEL IT TOO, IFFIE! I FEEL IT!
@Bill Fostex I’m so glad!
Yesssss swifts. Totally worth $80. Well, as long as they’re your eighty bucks and not mine.
The photo illustrates exactly how I feel whenever I go watch the swifts. Still though, totally worth 80 bucks, especially if it was your friends who brought along the snacks.
@dinoterror They did! I ate their snacks!
And this whole time I was thinking parking tickets in Portland are a myth because my friends are always letting their paid parking expire and never, ever get tickets for it.