"I've already had one run-in with an I.W.W. I know tough customers when I see them.

I had a run-in with him once myself.

Didn't you hear about Dawson's li'l run-in with Nebraska?" "Hell, I seen it!"

He'd had a run-in with Butch Conklin, and Butch threatened to come back with all his gang and wipe Eldara off the map.

He had a run-in with two gunmen, Ferguson and Conklin.

But the guards of the two black troops didn't have a single run-in with the savages.

"I just had a run-in with young Hatton.

"I hear you had a run-in with Hatton's son, and knocked him down.

I had a run-in with Hatton, an' licked him, and give'm my time.

This rather personalised essay, obviously biased and clouded by a string of personal experiences, seeks to narrate one person's run-ins into Goa's most long-serving editor.