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Met a guy at the gas station off I-35 who told me his life story while I was trying to fill up
I'm sitting there at 6am, barely awake, pumping gas before my morning run. This older fella pulls up next to me in a beat-up Ford Ranger, hops out, and just starts talking. No hello, no warning. He tells me he used to be a line cook in Austin for 22 years, then one day he wrote a short story about a talking armadillo that won some local contest. Now he's driving to Dallas to pitch a novel to a publisher he found on Reddit. I asked him what the book was about, and he said "It's about a mailman who discovers his route is actually a secret map to buried treasure, but every house has a different rule you gotta follow." I stood there for 10 minutes with the nozzle still in my tank just listening. Has anyone else had a stranger just unload a whole creative project on them out of nowhere?
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benbrown19d agoTop Commenter
Every house has a different rule you gotta follow" made me laugh because that actually sounds kind of good. My buddy Kevin had something similar happen at a laundromat in Waco. Some lady cornered him by the dryers and spent 20 minutes explaining her screenplay about a zombie outbreak that only affects people who wear Crocs. She had index cards taped to the walls with character arcs on them. Kevin said he just kept nodding and trying to fold his socks.
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