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Monday, August 23, 2010

WOULD YOU HAVE MADE THIS TRADE?

I was in Chicago and saw this exchange go down. The guy with the plastic bags slung over his shoulder walks in front of this Sheriff on his George Jetson machine and just makes him a strong, firm offer: "Bags for the motorcycle, man. Bags for the motorcycle." And there wasn't an ounce of sarcasm in his voice, pure business. I saw his eyes, this man was serious. The Sheriff just laughs and turns down his offer. Then this dude just kept walking, that's when I took this picture. Whole exchange was maybe 15 seconds long. Here's the thing: I don't know if I could have just turned down that offer so easily. Whats in the bags!? It's haunting me now, it's like the mystery door on a gameshow. I always want the mystery door! Sometimes it's a lump a shit but sometimes it's a Kia. This guy made it sound like it was a fair-and-square deal. I think they call that business acumen. Plus, I don't think you should write off homeless guys this quickly...and I don't mean to sound like I'm judgemental but that guy is totally homeless. Spotting a homeless guy is like the old saying about hard-core pornography, "It's hard to define but I know it when I see it." He's got that 'dress shirt w/ slacks' kind of outfit that homeless guys always rock, like they definitly do not have anything important to do, but if something comes up they're ready to TCB. Who knows what this guy has in the bags. He could have worked for NASA back in the day and there's the flux capacitor inside the bag, and it was his lengthy and tireless research in creating it that drove him past the brink of sanity. Or it could be three dead pigeons. But I would have to know! I mean look at that machine the Sheriff is riding, piece of shit probably tops out at 20 MPH. Remember the homeless guy Bart Simpson ran into? He was the creator of Itchy & Scratchy and Bart wrote him off at first. so I'm just saying: Think about it.

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