Took the train down to Portland Saturday, for the Metafilter.com 11tth anniversary meetup. Saw some well done graffiti, memories of when I lived in PDX, saw some street art I am pretty sure is new since I left. Saw one person I’ve known for a long time, met several other new folk. Took the train back up Sunday. Saw quite a few of the Seattle to Portland bikers.
While in Portland, saw a guy making and giving away balloon animals/flowers/swords on the MAX. Said old-friend suggested it was just portland “keeping it weird”, but when I got back to Seattle, had a woman on the bus (who I’m pretty sure I’ve run into on the streets of downtown before) who asked me:
1. If you win at penny slots, do they pay you out in pennies?
I replied that these days, they give you a ticket to redeem for cash, but yes, in the old days, they did pay out in pennies.
2. She asked, how much is 10,000 pennies. She was quite disapointed when I said $100.
3. She then asked, how many pennies in $10,000. (1,000,000 said I)
Then it was my stop to get off. I think there are just a lot of crazy people in the world.
Tags: adventure, amtrak, kind, meetup, portland, rail, seattle, train, travel, weird