Sunday, January 21, 2018

A subway panhandler the other day.

As I was taking the subway in to work the other day, this very well-kempt (young) (Latino or maybe Arab?) guy walked up and down the car, pulling little packs of tissues from a pouch and laying them on the seat by everyone on the car.

When you looked down at them, they had an attached photocopied note, saying that he had a kid and had to provide for them and please give a donation, God bless, or something to that effect.

No one did give him anything, so he went back through the car and picked up all the tissue packets and put them back into his pouch, and crossed over between cars in to the next one, probably to do that all over again.

He moved very slowly and purposefully, and kept his head down, never meeting people's eyes.

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