One night a couple of years ago I was out with two friends.
A third dude, Shadi, joined up. I think he was friends with one of my friends.
We went to buy a something to eat from the local kiosk.
Anyway, Shadi wasn’t that hungry it seemed… After he had eaten half his hot dog, he smeared it all over the table attached to the kiosk. Then he looked at us as if he thought we would laugh with him. Because it’s so fun to make the kiosk attendant clean up after you (not).
At first, I was shocked he would behave like that. Then I got pissed off.
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