Foo Words: Close Encounter

Close:
Adverb

1. To throng closely together.
2. To lessen and intervening distance; gain.
3. To make contact or come close.


En-coun-ter:
Intransitive Verb

1. To meet accidentally or in opposition.


For ex., Brian has a close encounter with a murderer.

Event 1. Brian frequents 128 Billiards to visit Charlene, a bartender.

Event 2. Brian meets another frequenter and a friend of Charlene, Mikey, mid September. He is with several of his friends; a girl named Lorna and their mutal friend from Puerto Rico.

Event 3. On Wednesday October 3, Brian, Erik, and Sarah go to a Bloc Party concert. Coincidentally, Mikey and Lorna sit one row behind them. Brian says hi to both.

Event 4. On Thursday October 4, Charlene quits 128 Billiards

Event 5. On Saturday October 6, Brian, Charlene, Erik, Sarah, and their mutual friends go to Sola's in the East Village to celebrate Erik's and Ran's birthday for the evening. Charlene declines an invitation from Mikey to hang out with him and Lorna.

Event 6. On Tuesday October 9, Charlene receives a text from her former employers inquiring about Mikey. They inform her that Mikey has been involved in a homocide. Brian and Charlene suspect that Mikey may have been killed.

Event 7. Brian finds a New York Post article titled, In Bed with Dead Lover.

"A sicko Chinatown artist strangled his new girlfriend - and then slept beside her rotting corpse for two nights, investigators said yesterday."

"On Saturday night, he and his girlfriend, a woman in her 30s whose name was withheld pending family notification, went to Rick's Cabaret, a topless bar on West 33rd Street, where he spent $50 to buy her lap dances, investigators said. After Rick's, they went back to his apartment on the 39th floor of 20 Confucius Plaza, a place he shares with his ailing grandmother, who is in her 80s. The doorman told cops they were smiling and happy as they came in. On Sunday, however, the couple, who had been dating for just a week, got into an argument. Lenahan demanded the $50 back. The woman refused and kicked him in the groin. Lenahan then lost it, grabbed her by the throat and choked her, investigators said."

The woman is Lorna. Brian can see the 20 Confucius Plaza tower from his window.


Brian has a close encounter with a murderer.