Ran into a human this evening. Thought I would share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His name is George, he works the late shift at the liquor store around the corner from the hotel where I\u2019m living this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He had just mopped the floor when I came in. He told me this stunningly ordinary fact. I said \u201chey, I don\u2019t think I tracked in too much crap.\u201d He was like \u201cI don\u2019t care about that, man, I just don\u2019t want you to fall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Silence reigned for about a minute while I looked at the shelves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He asked \u201cwhat are you looking for this evening?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I replied \u201chappiness, same as most evenings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAren\u2019t we all. What do you you usually like?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t know why I broke out of the script at that point \u2013 but I went sideways: \u201cWell, I\u2019ve got a brown ale fermenting at home now \u2013 so maybe something that reminds me of home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He went with it: \u201cI\u2019ve got 10 gallons of IPA in secondary. Do you do all-grain or extract?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And we were off. We talked about brewing, about his time in the Marine Corps, about family, about friends. He pushed me to a chocolate stout, but I went with the hyper-local belgian style ale. He\u2019s working in single gallon batches on a hard apple cider recipe for next year. I shared my friend\u2019s time tested approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We talked for about 20 minutes \u2013 then a raft of other customers came in for last call and I paid up and left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pay attention \u2013 you never know when you might run into another human being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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