Dog Bites

"Or you could smoke a joint," he suggested, feeling around in one of his coat pockets. "The oxygen might cure a headache, but the joint will for sure." Then he showed us the T-shirt he was wearing; it featured the logo of Scour.com, which he said he'd been working for until it had laid him off that morning.

We waited a few more minutes before announcing that we were going back to the office. "Well, I'm going to smoke a joint," he told us, heading off in the opposite direction.