As I write this, I’m sitting a few feet away from Terry Pluto, the sports writer from the Akron Beacon Journal. at Angel Falls Coffee Shop.
That’s kind of cool. I am into local celebrity. It’s like underground art or music. You have to be in the right place and right perspective to appreciate it.
But he gets the most insane people gravitating to him.
This dude spots him and tells him this whole surreal story about somebody on death row that has been wrongfully charged.
Terry Pluto IS A SPORTS WRITER! What the hell is he going to do about it?
In a much nicer way, Terry tells this guy that. But he won’t stop. He just gets crazier and crazier… he starts rambling… “but don’t you think it’s wrong to be on death row if you didn’t do it?” I’m starting to wonder if it’s this dude that just escaped from death row.
Fortunately, the scene ends.
But man… what a weird existence you must have being a guy like Terry.
I’m going to just pretend I don’t know who he is and let him enjoy his tea.