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Found Stories

"I think we're all bozos on this bus."

--Firesign Theatre

• 1967: Game: Race for the doors.
• 1976: The happy man.
• 1985: I worked as a dishwasher at a restaurant in a cellar on Hayes near Clayton.
• 1989: I saw him on the bus one morning with a teenage girl in braces.
• 1989: Her resentment at the way stupid Americans pronounce her name.
• 1989: Our morning physics lesson.
• 1990: Chicago, November 1990.
• 1991: Found Story.
• 1991: Young businessman, expensive suit, expensive gold watch.
• 1992: Bus stop, Larkin and Hayes.
• 1992: "This is a takeover!"
• 1993: Young gay men in partial drag, early 20s, very small, 5'.
• 1994: MUNI train, L Taraval line, morning commute inbound, somewhere beneath Twin Peaks.
• Joke: Sunday before the beginning of a new school year.

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