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I take public transportation everywhere. And I’ve seen a lot of interesting characters (you tend to do that if you’ve ever ridden the NYC subway system) along the way, of course. I often wonder about the lives and/or the backstory of the characters I see – don’t you?

Which leads me to this: I spotted a guy on a downtown-bound bus two or so weeks ago around 8:45 am. He was wearing a mostly-unremarkable black baseball cap with two lines on it:

• An email address (which I couldn’t make out, although it was a Yahoo address)
• Let’s do lunch.

No, I wasn’t close enough to see what he looked like (a pretty average guy, if I recall correctly.)
No, I didn’t get the email address.
No, I wasn’t looking to get the email address to invite him to lunch.

But I do have one question for him: How’s that been working for you so far?

And I have one question for all of you: is it a novel approach – or a little creepy (or something in between)? You decide…