The BEST Bum Line of 2008
“Buddy, can you give me a cigarette? I left mine in the machine.”
RUNNER UP
“Franco, could you give me $2 for a ham sandwich?”
“Bernie – you can’t buy a ham sandwich for $2!”
“Oh. Then can you give me 5?”
(He got it.)
Tags: Bumb, Panhandlers
No No! Say I. I actually fed two women and two guys and three kids with my guitar and the other guy in a hooded sweatshirt that was so big it hung below his knees- for over a month in San Francisco by each of us standing accross from each other on a streetcorner on Haight-Asbury st’s in San Francisco by playing the guitar and whenever anyone passed between us we did a take, stuck both our hands out palms up , and asked in unison, “Spare change for the de-ranged?” The other of the two best money makers was , “Hey buddy, let me borrow a quarter from you, I need to get my Rolls Royce out of hock!”
A young woman approached me in Lake George to ask if I had change for a quarter. I gave her two dimes and a nickel, she said thanks, and then she walked away. I wanted to be angry, but I was laughing too hard.
Bill- That line could save my life someday, that is the best.