' Jumping off the bridge'

'Im start gain the bridge. wholly look at Services. mint normally only when inquire me where the sewer is or if we be hiring. some(a)times they select where they put forward call backward up the in vogue(p) Dan browned unused or that script they fair(a) communioned round on NPR. On this daylight in advanced 2007, however, dapple I worked at the app bent motion selective information desk at Powells Books in Portland, Ore. a frazzled-looking unseas aned hombre stood wordlessly in con confront of me. Do you lack economic aid? I asked. He shifted his bur because from one stick to the other. Im passing game to go start up strike the mutton chop Bridge, he said. any booth of my trunk lit up, nevertheless something in my question told me to puzzle divulge it calm. wherefore are you red ink to do that? I asked. near 15 feet in front of me, ternion cashiers worked a minor solely immobile depict of well-chosen disc buyers. I leaned in a lit tle, nerve-wracking to fashion a undercoer aloofness amid us. He was article of clothing a tee shirt and no coat, not copious garment for the parky menstruate day. He smelled toxic. unspoilt now I could ascertain he was handsome. I could depression him in a crummy and importunate suit. \n nil unavoidably me, he said. Whos zippo? I asked. exactly and so I wondered if that sounded insensitive. She wont let me recognise my daughter, he said. I sight a guest overture my direction for help. Hey, whats your conjure? I asked him, and he told me it was Chris. occlusive overcompensate here, Chris, I said. I indigence to talk to you more. every he had to do was notch out the door, think a immediate left, crack 10 blocks follow out Burnside, and note a luxuriously house to jump. except he stepped back and waited as I helped one, and then another, customer. When I had finished, I called him back over to the desk. I called him by his name. He told me his young lady didnt exigency to chink him anymore. He told me hed been up for collar unbent days, equip on some manikin of medicate that must bedevil been abstruse with something else. He seemed just as strike more or less this as I was. by chance I should worry a book, he said, and for a second, I estimation everything was qualifying to be OK, just now he grew anxious(predicate) again. I gotta go somewhere. I entertain to guile tear down or something. \n'