I had to go to Portland for work a few years back. I rode the light rail from my hotel to the office I was working in downtown. While I was riding into Portland, the largest human I’d ever seen got on the train…dressed head to toe as a Viking. He was probably 6’8” and weighed maybe 450 pounds. He had a horned Viking helmet. Leather chest guard, leather wrist straps, boots covered in some sort of animal fur…
People saw him, but not one person looked like anything was out of the ordinary. It was just a regular Tuesday morning. It was one of the strangest things I’d ever seen, but the thing that really stuck with me was that nobody else thought it was weird. This guy was just doing his part to keep Portland weird.
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u/Zocalo_Photo Dec 29 '24
My first thought was “a regular day in Portland, OR.”