Weight = 177.4 lbs.; holding on in spite of Ms. S making
chocolate chip cookies.
Coinage found = $1.92; two different quarter curb finds.
No GPS data, phone was dead
Topic: Donald Pushes Back
Recently the Moneywalker has been embracing the “nobles of
MidCity” New Orleans. Rather than turn
these street residents away, if they ask for “bus money,” and if I have change
from the walk, it is offered. I always
introduce myself and ask for their name.
Eye contact and a brief conversation are encouraged. Smugly, I felt their humanity, and mine, were
being enhanced.
Turns out, exchanging aspects of humanity is a tricky
transaction. For example, on the walk, a
gentleman was getting out of a streetcar and heading directly toward me. Central casting would not have used him—way over
the top even for Hollywood; old tennis shoes with no laces, beltless pants held
up with his hand, matted hair, and unshaven.
Certain that he would ask for a handout, I preemptedly offered
him four quarters.
MoneyWalker: “Sir, could you use this change?”
Noble: without a preamble of thanks but with a certain
swagger stated, “This money is just in time.”
MoneyWalker: “My name is Bob, what is yours?”
Noble: with a street nuance mumbled “Donald.”
MoneyWalker: not understanding, “Pardon, I missed that.”
Noble: with some impatience spelled, “D-o-n-a-l-d.”
MoneyWalker: sensing the humanity transaction was nearing an
end, “Well, nice meeting you Donald.”
And thus the episode closed.
If the MoneyWalker’s ego needed a
little appreciation, it was not Donald’s problem. Somehow the word patronizing surfaced,
regardless of one’s status in life, no one wants to be patronized.
MoneyWalker
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