““Oh- hey, there," he said. He was shorter than me, pudgy with salt-and-pepper hair that always seemed to be in need of a good conditioning. And he always wore sweatpants and T-shirts that had seen more abuse than narcotics. But he was a good landlord. When my heater stopped working in mid-December, it took him only two weeks to get it fixed. Of course, it took me knocking on his door in need of a warm place to sleep to get it that way, but one night on his sofa, where I'd suddenly developed night terrors and epilepsy, and that puppy was running like a Mercedes the next day. It was awesome.””
![“[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.” quote by Michael Chabon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/371/michael-chabon-627_busstations_his-coat-emitted-an-odor-of-bus-station_1581026.jpg)
