In a message dated 1/17/01 11:01:19 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Not really into the whole discussion, but I remember earlier last year while I was spending a few months in Seattle, I passed a guy with a "Will work for food" sign hanging out by the side of the freeway exit coming into the Queen Anne area. >> When "homeless" was just becoming a part of the daily lexicon, my editor sent two of us out to panhandle in regular street clothes. I went to an office supply store, bought 3 dozen of the cheapest BIC ball-point pens and some No. 2 yellow pencils then hit the bricks. In traveling from business to business, my sign told them who I was and what I was about: "Buy my pencils, keep me off welfare." I later changed the sign, this time noting I was a veteran. "Keep this veteran off welfare, buy my pencils." I had no price on my goods, just the signs. "How much" they'd ask, "Whatever you think is right" I'd say. I made $37.78 in less than four hours, most of the four hours used up in driving from location to location, testing to see if one area was better than the other. *Panhandlers carrying briefcases or laptop cases make upwards of $200 day in New York City's Grand Central Station. *My "Veterans" shtick would probably do the same or maybe better. Mafud [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org.
