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Scene: Perkins restaurant on Division/Spokane
Time: Thursday evening
Narrator: Jon Livingston /Spokane

After ordering $42 worth of food and wolfing it down, two twentysomething femmes attempted to skip out without paying. The scam began when one left the table, and the other was presented with the check. Oh, said the remaining diner, my friend just stepped out to grab a cigarette. I’m going to join her. The waitress didn’t buy the act. So she followed the second scofflaw outside and wrote down the license number of the scammers’ car as they drove off. Book ‘em, Dan-o.

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog