Twenty year-old Chattanooga resident Chris Lefebvre was recently busted by friends after he was found pretending to read Homer’s The Iliad at a table in front of the popular Broad Street coffeehouse.
“He sat there for an hour and never even turned a page,” says friend Lindsay Tanner. “He just kept staring at the book and looking to see if anybody was watching him. What a poser!”
Another friend, Skyler Daniels, noticed Lefebvre’s posing also, and decided to test him.
“I was like, ‘Dude, you’re not even reading that,’” says Daniels. “And he was like, ‘Yes I am,’ and I was like, ‘Alright then, do you think Achilles should have wrestled the giant chicken?’ And he was like, ‘Oh yeah, if he didn’t, the chicken would’ve killed the whole town,’ and I was like, ‘Man, you’re so busted! There was no giant chicken! You’re not even reading it!’ And then he was like, ‘Man, whatever,’ and changed the subject and started talking about how much Bush sucks.”
Lefebvre’s friends say this is not the first time he’s tried to impress people by pretending to read a book in front of Greyfriar’s. Last November, he was caught pretending to read Noam Chomsky’s 9/11, and last April, he was busted with an unread copy of Stupid White Men by Michael Moore.
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Posted by: ron at April 1, 2004 10:40 AMin some way, aren't we all busted? i remember the first time i tried smoking in front a coffeeshop, hoping franka potente would spot me; i think i took two drags the whole time. and never inhaled.
Posted by: jeremy at April 1, 2004 04:38 PMYeah, we're all busted.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at April 1, 2004 08:48 PM