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Streeter: someone’s bound to say yes one of these days edition

By Jill

EXT. QUEEN STREET SIDEWALK. LATE MORNING. RAIN.
TORONTOIST walks purposefully West, STREETER ambles into her path.
STREETER: Excuse me Miss, I was wondering if you could help me?
TORONTOIST: Yes? (readies self to give directions, time)
STREETER: I was wondering if I could buy you a glass of wine?
TORONTOIST: No thank you.
STREETER: You’re good? You’re cool?
TORONTOIST: (Retreating) Um… yeah.
STREETER: Alright Miss, just checking.
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  • http://www.mathewkumar.com mathew

    Surely you misheard him; he must have said “I was wondering if you could buy me a glass of wine?”
    He may just have been a very classy beggar.

  • http://www.jillmurray.com Jill

    Nope. It was bait-and-switch all the way.

  • Karen

    Oh my god, I think I may have had this guy hit on me in the summer!

  • http://www.guesswork.ca Patrick M

    I can’t believe you said no to free wine.

  • http://www.jillmurray.com Jill

    Well it was almost 11am, so as you can imagine, I was already pretty drunk by then.

  • Karen

    Are we talking a short-ish, early 30′s, well-groomed brown guy?
    I think he pulled this stunt on me in front of Roy Thompson Hall during the Film Festival. He was like, “Hi, are you one of the festival volunteers? I was wondering if you could help me with something. Is there a good coffee shop in the area?”
    “Well, there’s a Second Cup on the corner of King and John right there.”
    “Do you want to go grab a coffee then?”
    “Umm….what? No…sorry.”
    “Come on, what’s the harm in a cup of coffee?”
    Etc. until I told him to screw off and get out of my way.

  • http://www.jillmurray.com Jill

    Karen, it’s entirely possible it was the same guy. Maybe he’s a Toronto archetype, like Zanta.

  • jennifer

    Something must be in the air….I too was offered wine on a city street. Only for me it was an entire bottle of Chilean red. I was outside the Loblaws/LCBO at Bathurst and St. Clair last week, hailing a cab, when (what looked to be) a homeless man staggered up to me and said “do you want a bottle of wine?” He stuck the bottle out towards me…brand new, good brand, still corked! Feeling somewhat nervous at the way he was teetering back and forth, though, I declined the wine and jumped in my cab. Very odd situation!

  • http://brokenengine.blogspot.com brokenengine

    Jesus, what do you women want?! You complain when the awful frat boy/club district archetype drops cheesey one liners on you, and now someone offers you a harmless cup of joe or a nice cup(or bottle!) of wine, and you shun them too! Our species is doomed!

  • Gloria

    :P brokenengine

  • http://brokenengine.blogspot.com brokenengine

    ;) Gloria. Could I interest you in a nice glass of wine? Or a cup of coffee? How about an Escalade?