I'm sitting at a bus stop all sad faced, eating some potato chips I'd bought with EBT. And I see this homeless guy off in the distance, on the corner with the sign. I zoomed in and tried to get a photograph, to see what his sign said. Couldn't really see it, and I got distracted by the awesome looking sunset.
I started taking pictures of the sunset clouds, and the dude came walking up.
He said, in an instructive tone, all you have to do is have a sign, and a smile. Sometimes do a little wink and nod. He introduced him self as "Whitey".
The bastard had made 50 bucks in 10 minutes right in front of my potato chip eating face. I was kinda envious, but whatever. He gave me a beer that some Mexicans driving by had given him. I took his picture and made some videos. He didn't even notice.
I walked with him to Rainbow foods, just to chat with someone. I went inside and got him some rolling papers. His money. I was 100% broke sub-poverty suffering. He gave me 3 bucks. Papers only cost 99 cents. So I made 2 bucks off him. We sat outside on a bench chatting, but the store manager decided to be a fuckhead and called the cops for no real reason. Maybe he knew Whitey from some other time? I don't know. Sitting there for 5 minutes wasn't really loitering or anything. We obviously did look like homeless guys, so anyway the cops came and we left. It started pouring rain and I departed from the dude, to use McDonalds wi-fi, since I could now afford a dollar menu item. I waited for it to stop raining then rode back to my RV to go to sleep.
Ok, so he wasn't really a millionaire, but he was richer then me, and probably richer then you.
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