SW Portland, Eliot Tower elevator, a man named Bill holding two big red and yellow buckets: "Does anyone ever tell you you look like John Lennon?"

NW Portland, Food Front Coop, Greg the cashier: "Hi friend!" (I've never seen him before here.) "You look like John Lennon."

Portland, PSU streetcar stop, raining, drunken man holding beer in left hand in plastic bag: a 6-minute beer monologue waiting for the tram

Portland, bus #77, Louise the smoking old lady: she had a perm and twirled the cigarette between her fingers anticipating her stop.