The Zip Code Man
Downtown Boulder is just amazing. One dull day can be taken away by just strolling by the open mall in Pearl Street. Last Friday, we were heading for a weekend drink to a local hotel and we saw people gathered around a street performer who spontaneously shouts out the location as random people from the crowd gives their zip code. He calls himself the zip code man nonetheless. What truly amazed me was when tourist gave him their zips and he was able to give them the exact location (county, city and state). One other tourist was from Brussels, Belgium and another from a province in France and both couldn’t believe how this guy could possibly guess the exact place with just a zip code. There were other 15 of us who participated in the amazing zip name game and aside from naming the exact place of the zip, the zip code man guessed most of the restaurants we have been to the last time. I couldn’t believe it! It’s just amazing! Imagine we were in the middle of Boulder and this random guy knew where most of us dined out where we originally came from! Amazingly freaky! One girl had goosebumps when she gave her telephone number to the zip code man and he guessed her name. So he could be also called the directory man, I guess.
Come to think of it, we thought he had an earpiece and some spy surrounding us or maybe some buddies working in the crowd. But this guy does this for a voluntary donation of $1-$5. So it is very doubtful he could afford to hire a crew. Maybe or maybe not. Nevertheless, it was a very entertaining night to start my very first night of alcohol-free drinking in Boulder.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Good for people to know.