Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Fields Corner: a female panhandler hit me for a handout.
In an earlier post, I said that black guys who beg for money always give me a break when I pass them on the street. Yesterday, I found that a black female panhandler didn't extend me the same courtesy. I used both my Hellstrom crutches yesterday (the kind that have movable clasps around one's elbows...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004
On the protocol of the treatment of limping persons II: black guys and me
Yesterday, I walked through Copley Square and had a revelation. I learned that panhandlers, particularly black panhandlers, won't bother me for money. They see my limp and my cane and give me free passage. I noticed this same phenomenon last Saturday when I was walking around Harvard Square. This...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004
The protocol of how to treat a limping person
It boggles my imagination that I find it necessary to write such a memorandum on such a topic in this enlightened age, but circumstances dictate and who am I to shun my responsibility. Every limping person in the world has much riding on this memo so I am trying to do them proud. Nobody likes...
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