Most people know 'em as urban legends.
And that's the point. He roams the rainy downtown streets encountering urban legends come to life everywhere, from the lady who microwaves her poodle to the man who gets a nasty surprise the morning after a one-night stand. Either way, it was hard to feel much sympathy for Charlie's broken heart with this seemingly ordinary agony we've all suffered played out so melodramatically. Charlie was past beginning to annoy me. But then Charlie's restlessness turns more thoughtfully introspective, and in the process throwing into question all that has come before.