On Sat 07 Jun 2008 06:32:45p, Terry Pulliam Burd told us...

> El Jefe and I had a meeting with a LA city councilman and were
> driving there after lunch with our 2 clients on Thursday. Traffic was
> even more insane than usual off the 101 at 4th St. Took us 15 mins. to
> go 3 blocks - turned out one of the studios was filming something -
> and it looked like we were not going to make the appointment. We're,
> what, at Pershing Square and City Hall is at 200 N. Main, so we did a
> Chinese fire drill, the boss and clients jump out of the car, I run
> around and jump into the driver's seat while they run like maniacs to
> City Hall. I parked in the underground parking lot beneath LA Mall,
> and started hoofing it across the street to City Hall. About a
> block toward my goal, I realize some guy is following me. "How," you
> ask yourself? He was on a cell phone and I heard him say, "She's a
> redhead in a green dress." Well, gee, I seem to be the only redhead in
> a green dress in sight, so I start making odd manuevers. I cut back
> toward the LA Mall, zig zagged through a nest of homeless people
> sitting under the shade trees there, and dove into a Quiznos (thereby
> being somewhat tangentially OB). Meanwhile, the guy is still on my
> tail and parks himself at a table and chairs outside the Quiznos. I
> call my boss and tell him what's happened and I ain't movin' until he
> comes to get me. Meanwhile, the place is swarming with cops - downtown
> police HQ, the LAPD commission, you name it, is also across the
> street, along with a myriad of Social Security offices and state
> offices, the DEA, the US Attorney's office... I collared a cop and
> explained what was going on. Presumably (b/c I'm deep inside the
> Quiznos and can't see the guy) he spoke to the guy, but the cop didn't
> come back in, so I sat there until my boss came to get me a freakin'
> hour later.
>
> Only thing I can figure is that I was better dressed than most of the
> local denizens - Jimmy Choo purse, Tahari suit and Ferragamo heels -
> and he was eyeballing the purse and contents.
>
> Very nice ladies in the Quiznos. One of them must have noticed that I
> looked distressed and asked if I was okay. I explained what was
> happening. She brought me a cup of ice water and some napkins, then
> kept me up to date, saying, "He's still there" over and over. I left
> them a $20 tip when the boss and I left. The guy was still there and
> either asleep or faking it.
>
> <shrug> I f*cking hate LA.
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

Positively weird!


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Wayne Boatwright
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Saturday, 06(VI)/07(VII)/08(MMVIII)
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Trill: The musical equivalent of an
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