Thursday, November 26, 2009

human kind/kind human

I worked today
I know, I know, it's a popular not religious holiday
But I haven't had work in a while and I'm feeling it in my slender wallet

I left the job and was going to take the bus home
As you can imagine buses are few and far between
It's a major holiday as we've already discussed

I walked for a while after waiting in the rain for a while
Then I headed off the bus line and walked toward Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
I decided to hitch-hike

Americans no longer pick up hitch-hikers
But I thought, it's Thanksgiving, someone might feel kind
Plus it's raining...

I got to MLK and put my thumb out
I walked a few blocks thumb in the air deciding it was a good experiment
Just then I realized someone had pulled over for me

Tooraj Khodabandeh to be exact
As his business card reads
Toorah sells cars, and he's an actor

He demanded to take me close to home
Asked if he looked presentable to meet his new dates parents
And told me he was from Persia

Iran, I asked?
Yes exactly!
I was happy to make the disclosure mundane

Now I'll google his name
And look at his acting photographs as he suggested
And now you can too

http://www.aracnet.com/~whitcher/tooraj/

2 comments:

  1. wow, he's super pretty!

    It's time for us all to start hickhiking again; if enough people do it it becomes normal and not scary. In Germany there are formal ways of getting a ride with people who are going in the same direction. Americans love to be in their cars alone I guess.

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  2. I used to hitch-hike daily as a teenager. Mostly it was safe and sometimes it was scary or just plain strange. But the last time I did this was in Italy after all the trains had stopped. A guy gave three us a ride from one hill town to another without blinking.

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