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Subject: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Mickey191 Date: 12 Oct 07 - 10:46 PM The weirdest/funniest thing happened! I pulled up to a clutch of stores in Wingdale,NY intent on some Chinese food. A man was waving me in to my spot - was not necessary as all the spaces were empty. I thought it strange-but there were people around so I got out. He was tall & thin & had a grey beard &was not unkempt. Rather nice looking-about 57/58. As I was locking the door he said something-which I did not hear. I put my hand to my ear & said:"Say Again Please." He asked: "Do you have a shrimp Roll?" Then I figured he cannot have asked me if I have a shrimp roll. No-he could not have. It's just too silly. So I say: "I beg you pardon-please say that again." "Do you have a shrimp roll? says he. I said: "No I don't. Is there something I can do for you?" "No-No-BYE." He walks off. I inquire of the young counter girl if she knows the man. "Yes" says she. "He asks everyone for a shrimp roll. Sometimes he comes in and buys one. Sometimes he just asks-BUT he never asks when people are leaving-just when they enter." So in effect he's putting his order in. It was so weird & funny-then I got the serious implications involved. 1-He just loves Shrimp rolls. 2-He's broke. 3-He's hungry. 4-He's an olde time practicing Catholic and it is Friday. I ordered an extra one for the wayfaring stranger- but he was gone when I came out. I sure would love to know his story. |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Barry Finn Date: 13 Oct 07 - 12:10 AM He lost his shrimp roll in a grave yard 30-40 yrs ago in Australia, & though it might've been you who had seen it. HeHe (carried over from another thread) Barry |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Peace Date: 13 Oct 07 - 12:18 AM Just a guy who likes shrimp rolls. Was his name Forrest? |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: wysiwyg Date: 13 Oct 07 - 09:13 AM Be careful; if he's mentally ill you may not find him safely predictable. There are said to be a great many street people who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.... ~S~ |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Mickey191 Date: 13 Oct 07 - 09:35 AM Barry, Tell me the title of the other thread please. Looks like a good one. |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: gnu Date: 13 Oct 07 - 11:33 AM ...paranoid schizophrenia... maybe he needs to see a shrimp? |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Neil D Date: 13 Oct 07 - 12:46 PM Barry, Tell me the title of the other thread please. Looks like a good one. Standard experiences you have missed |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: fat B****rd Date: 13 Oct 07 - 01:00 PM I have never been asked for a shrimp roll. |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 13 Oct 07 - 01:00 PM He's a Russian spy. Only his contact knows the correct response to "Do you have a shrimp roll?" Maybe someone forgot to tell him the Cold War is over. |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Mickey191 Date: 13 Oct 07 - 01:23 PM This (Your responses) is why I love Mudcat! Bee-dubya-ell maybe that's why he split the scene soo fast. He almost lost his cover. I'm tempted to go back & see if he's there tonight. How's this reply: "No, but I have a belly roll." |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 13 Oct 07 - 08:13 PM I've been followed around for hours now by a mental picture of Peter Sellers as Inspector Clousseau asking "Duh yoo ahv a shrimp rull?" |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Peace Date: 13 Oct 07 - 11:04 PM ' "No, but I have a belly roll." ' Hope the guy's got good hearing. |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Oct 07 - 03:39 AM Ha! Ha! I see that Inspector Clouseau scene too, clear as day. This situation just begs for a rerun. Think of all the things you could say to this guy in response. "No, but I have a dead dog in the trunk of my car..." "That depends. Do you have a left-handed mason jar?" "Not today...but I will have a shrimp roll on next February 3rd." "I did, but I already ate it." "Will a cabbage roll do?" "As a matter of fact, I am a shrimp roll!" (Before anyone out there gets all worked up about this...ahem! I am just joking, okay? I am fantasizing. I do not suggest actually harassing the mentally ill or otherwise unfortunate in this fashion.) No, what I would do is go there again at some point and actually get the guy a shrimp roll. |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: chazkratz Date: 14 Oct 07 - 04:23 AM gnu wrote: ...paranoid schizophrenia... maybe he needs to see a shrimp. Would that be a headshrimper, gnu? Or is a headshrimper an indigenous Amazonian? Charles |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Art Thieme Date: 14 Oct 07 - 05:38 AM The White House sponsors an Easter Egg Roll every year for the kids. I walked up to the entrance gate and told the Secret Service guy that I wanted to get 2 orders of their "egg roll" to go! He didn't see the humor. People, remember that schizophrenia beats dining alone !!!!!!!!!!! ART THIEME |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Oct 07 - 09:55 AM No it doesn't! I dine alone a great deal, and I love it. ;-) Just me and my book and the waitress. |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: GUEST,John Gray in Oz Date: 14 Oct 07 - 11:40 AM When I don't have what's being asked for my standard response is sometimes , " No, but I have a sister that's banned from night flying in the Luftwaffe." JG/FME |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Micca Date: 14 Oct 07 - 02:23 PM LH, wasnt it Nubar Gulbenkian, the tycoon, who said " The ideal number for a nice dinner is two, Myself and a damned good Head Waiter" |
Subject: RE: BS: A Very Particular Panhandler From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Oct 07 - 03:43 PM Sounds okay to me. ;-) |