This happened about five years ago, but reading the incessant requests to “SMILE” on this blog, I was reminded and had to share.

I had just gotten out of the oral surgeon, two wisdom teeth lighter, and wads of cotton shoved into the bleeding holes, but I was still swallowing a bit of blood. But I was still a little stoned from the nitrous and kept thinking I shouldn’t swallow blood, so I was sort of letting it pool a little.

I lived in Takoma Park at the time and had two cabs just refuse to take my poor swollen-up face home, when all of a sudden (or it seemed that way, again, still coming off nitrous) there is this DUDE all up in my mug with a “SMILE, BAYBEE!”

I kinda grimaced like a monkey and let some of that pooled blood run out of my mouth and down my chin a little. He staggered back several feet and then took off.

I wiped it off, had a good giggle, and caught the very next cab who was kind enough to play some Pink Floyd to match my state of mind, so it all came out okay.

Submitted by Muk on 7/19/2010

Location: 20th and K Street NW

Time of Harassment: Day Time (9:30A-3:30P)

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