Concrete in both senses of the word! This is engaging in all the sensory details.
"His daily bland fanfare" baffles me, and stands out as lacking the specific picture of most of the rest.
"his pace slowed" is hard to picture. Before tramping, he was looking at this woman and then sneezing, "eyes shut tight, head back." I suppose he might have been walking through all that, but the words don't suggest it, and certainly don't suggest walking at a fast pace. The phrase also suggests that he keeps moving as he asks for change, rather than stopping--stopping feels more likely.
FWIW.
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