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"i don't drink, i don't smoke, i need food or money, i live on the streets. i don't put drugs or poison in my body, knowing i have AIDS. i'm asking for any food or money you can spare." these folks are common on the subway. they ride for hours, or all day. anyone who has lived in the city will know them. the tactic is excellent. captive audience, demographic cross-section, constant turnover, small initial investment; and the cars are climate-controlled. if i was on the streets and begging i'd do this. the cost is springing for a well-rehearsed spiel like this, and reciting it hundreds or thousands of times a day, being rejected and ignored the majority of the time. but i guess that's true for people who sit in the same spot all day with a cup or a sign. "i have a dollar and a pretzel. any food or money is a help." he's holding a couple paper food wrappers in hands that look oddly swollen. am i imagining this? is it a symptom of AIDS? malnuorishment complicated by frequent illness, who knows. i get an apple from my backpack i scrounged from work. i was planning to save some up for apple sauce. oh well. i offer it to him. "i got no teeth," pulling back his upper lip with one finger to show he isn't lying. he's not. there's a look in his eyes as close to a shrug as he's going to get. i turn the apple over in my own non-shrug and put it back. he moves on, turning a one eighty and starting over. somebody gives him a dollar. lol. there is no limit to the varieties of human despair.
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Judging by the thread title I thought this was going to be a logic puzzle but apparently it was just OP's first time in the big city? Or some kind of fanfiction with the sex bits cut? Please clarify with statement of intent if false.
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hey charlie sheen man how ya doin
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Who cares gently caress you op come back if you murder one
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Voted 1 loving garbage thread
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first time in the big city what the hell??
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first i want to say these dogs are not bulldogs, second i want to say you don't know me man, you don't know me
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Sounds like you should've let him poz your neg hole
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nomadologique posted:you don't know me man, you don't know me Fair enough just clumsily trying to make sense of this thing we call life.
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Aug 24, 2016 03:51
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Wow spooky story OP glad you didn't get fuckin owned
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Aug 24, 2016 03:56
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op you should write a play about it
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Aug 24, 2016 03:58
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dont feed the wildlife
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nomadologique posted:i get an apple from my backpack i scrounged from work. i was planning to save some up for apple sauce. truly there is not lmao
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Aug 24, 2016 05:40
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John Mulaney is a funny guy.
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don't feed the animals
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