An Odd Pedestrian
By Darcy Nemo
@YrNemo (20254)
May 22, 2017 5:51am CST
The street at 9 PM that Friday night seemed to be more silent than usual, perhaps because of a steady drizzle. A few restaurants and pubs a few hundred meters away from where we were, however, still busy with their customers going in and out.
Fifty meters away from the biggest pub, the pedestrian in front of us who had been walking unsteadily, crookedly, suddenly stopped. (We reckoned he just got off from a train station close by.) In the darkness, we heard the sound of many coins hitting the pavement. A few seconds pausing there, then the man stumbled on, lurching straight into the closest entrance of the pub.
The light there was bright enough for us to see two things:
- His coins were still scattering there everywhere on the pavement,
- The man was drunk as a skunk (just an expression here, I don't think skunks ever got drunk.)
Strange, why should a drunk want to get to a pub for?
(His coins would be a pleasant surprise to some other pedestrians on that busy road 
.)
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you do have a good imagination and you could be right too, anything could have caused him to turn to drink for some kind of comfort.
@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
26 May 17
He has not drunk enough as far as he was concerned? He just loves drinking no matter how drunk he might be? As far as he was concerned he just needed a drink? Some possibilities at to why he went into a pub.
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@Nawsheen (28761)
• Mauritius
23 May 17
What about drunkards work. I was working as an intern in a government department. There was a man who came to work and he was drunk that day. He kept on blabbering and disturbing everyone. This government department was very lenient and didn't really had much rules for staff. He was too drunk that he collapsed at particular moment and fortunately they took him home or to the hospital.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
9 Jun 17
no doubt he'd not yet drowned his troubles, poor soul. i hope they didn't serve 'im though, but 'nstead suggested coffee 'n some food.
yepperz, somebody hit paydirt, eh?
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
9 Jun 17
@YrNemo i'm kinda odd, i'd picked 'em'p 'n took 'em to the drunkard, lol.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
22 May 17
Many drunks don't realize how drunk they are and do try to carry on drinking - I see it a lot - nice story
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
22 May 17
I liked this writing, it sounded like a story you know.
Yes, he did not care about coins, only the drink.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
23 May 17
@YrNemo Yes you did right, though your helping spirit was there Darcy. Bless you.
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@garymarsh6 (23979)
• United Kingdom
11 Jun 17
You should have picked his coins up!
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
24 May 17
maybe the drunk was so depressed that he thought the liquor he took was not enough to 'drown his bitterness away'.
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Hic!
@YrNemo (20254)
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23 May 17
Believe me, if I could follow that guy into that pub, I would have interviewed him of why he did such a silly thing. (Too late that night, and I just wanted to go home, out of the drizzle.)
@YrNemo (20254)
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23 May 17
I do hope that there was more where those coins came from, or the pub people would kick him out. (Unless he was staying there temporarily.) But then again, drinking too much is never good for the liver...
