@engineer,
engineer wrote:I'm careful with the beggars because it is fairly easy to get completely surrounded by beggars
if they see someone giving out money. You have to be very discrete.
Its an
ART; no joke.
U get plenty of opportunity to practice that art.
It can be fun.
I have a personal hobby of creating
JOY on an
unexpected basis.
( I don 't necessarily like to get hit up. )
In 1984, in an effort to avoid food poisoning,
I brought along (among other things) giant sized Milky Way bars.
When a begger hit me up, shoving his aluminum tray in front of me,
I dumped a big Milky Way bar into it. He was surprized n fled with his prize.
About 10 minutes later, I was surrounded by beggers yelling:
"CHOCOLATE!"
engineer wrote:We've had the car immobilized by beggars before.
How have u handled that ??
1 technique that I employed was that as I was in taxi cabs
driving along, with huge numbers of Indians walking along the road,
I threw out the window some Zip Lock Freezer Bags loaded with
$5O or
$1OO dollars worth
of Indian Rupees + a Milky Way bar for ballast, and a
pro-American note. The cash bags
looked like mortar rounds coming in, as thay hit the dry sand.
I remember 1 weary-looking young Indian woman, who was bent over
looking down the road, in an Indian bus stop one morning.
A Zip Lock Freezer Bag crammed full of Rupees and an American Milky Way
slid along the sand and hit her in the feet, as my cab zipped by.
I bet that she had not been expecting that to happen.
I also bet that she had fun telling her friends of her experience.
In my opinion, the acquisition of cash results in more and better
JOY,
when it was
not expected, but was a surprize; more of a
thrill.
Back in 1984, a Rupee was a big deal to them
and thay 'd work hard to get one. I dunno how thay feel about it now.
If I remember, we got about 8 Indian Rupees to the Dollar.
Now, the official rate is over 5O rupees. Inflation ?
I think that your
LIFE depends on how careful u r
in what u eat or drink; too many fatalities.
