Saturday, January 20, 2007

Stories with no picture

Yesterday at the hospital I saw a bulletin board with a wonderful ad for a truck.

1996 dodge dakota
V6 magnum engine
smogged and regisistered(sic)
first $2000 takes it

I had a customer this week who had a chessboard on the coffee table in the living room. I asked if he played a lot. He said sometimes. I said that I read the chess article in the San Francisco Chronicle every weekday. He said that he did too and hadn't known anyone else who also played.

Then he told me about how he almost won the All-City title in San Francisco in fourth grade. He had a won position and was about to checkmate his opponent, but then blundered into a stalemate.

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