a man's shoes
by jimm
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This happened two years ago. It was about 1AM and I'm witing for the train, near a homeless guy who's asking everybody for change.
Well, there's nobody except me and then this very well dressed dude comes in: a stockbroker, Wall Street type. Now this guy was dressed to the nines - it was a cold night and he has an overcoat, probably an Armani suit, silk tie, white shirt, cuff links, polished wingtips, briefcase, the works, but he was also DRUNK.
So this homeless guy asks this big shot executive for change. The guy has no change, so the homeless guy says: "Then how about givin me those" and he points to the guy's shoes! The guy says "NO WAY" and then the homeless guy starts yellin at him, telling him he's rich and doesn't care. And they argue, and the homeless guy starts to win the argument.
So this hotshot WASTED exec sits down and starts to apologize for not helping homeless people and that he should be more humble, and then he takes off his shoes!! Now we're talking maybe $500 shoes here, and the guy hands him these shoes! Then the homeless guy says "How about givin me the socks to go with em" so the exec takes off his socks, and he's standing there barefoot in this expensive suit and overcoat.
By now the guy is starting to have trouble standing up, and the homeless guy says: "How about your coat, and the suit jacket?"
So Mr. Wall Street takes off this overcoat and then takes off the jacket of his suit. Now this is a pinstriped suit, probably two thousand dollars, and then the homeless man told him to give him the shirt and the tie and the pants.
So this drunk business dude is handing over all his clothes to this homeless bum. The bum gives him some old clothes out of this paper bag and the business guy puts them on. Now HE looks llike a bum. Then the train comes and the Wall Street guy gets on.
I wonder what happened to him? The homeless guy was folding up all these expensive clothes and putting them in his bag. A wild night.
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