Begging for drug money

In 2002 I was on Burnside in Portland at two in the morning. I was high and by myself. I was waiting for a bus for my hotel outside a bar. A guy wearing dirty camos and holding a dog tied to the end of a rope was standing there with a girl. She had two black triangles tattooed on her forehead. They walked up next to me, and after a minute the girl said “I’ll give you anything I have for a dollar.”

The first thing I thought was “I wonder if they’d give me their dog…”

I gave them a dollar and they left.