So I am walking by and someone walks up to me and say…

“I know I’m black, but could you spare a quarter?”

“No, sorry.” Somehow we wind back to him being able to able to ask again.

“Now, look. I know I’m black, but could you spare a dollar?”

Two things. #1: Please don’t use the “race card” in such a situation — it is pretty tacky. #2: How can you move upward in your request like that.

Actually the third thing is that once upon a time, in slightly worse straits money-wise than currently I am, I was counting my change out in public, seeing if I could buy a can of chilli over a couple bags of Ramen. Someone asks for some spare change. I say no. He then says “What about those coins?” I reply, “I have to spend it on myself.” Good answer, no? (He looked at me with horror.)

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