- woman in Tucson taqueria who's leg I mistakenly grabbed as a toddler (protracted shame memory)
- enthusiastic all-caps logger whom my middle school friend interviewed via email for our 8th grade career day
- little girl in Denver airport holding large stuffed rabbit to whom my father erroneously remarked "I like your bear"
- college stoner whose phone I borrowed to call for help when my partner suddenly collapsed in the woods out of nowhere. he asked, inappropriately, "what did they take" in a tone that implied "can I have some"
- man in Sacremento barnes & noble circa 2015, disdainfully browsing young adult romances, who proclaimed, to nobody in particular, "books are whack"
- open mic american primitive guitar retired fireman
- uber driver who did not like amelia earhart
- judgy concertina person
- burlington cat man
- movie phone lady
- bus stop guy
- quail kid
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