Super Mendicant
So, I was reading this article in the NY Times today (yes, it does require registration, and yes, you should make up false info like every one else, you crazed Afgani Horticulturist, because there is no reason to have to register to read the news paper). Its a pretty meaningless article, but on the bottom of the second page, they quote a pan handler who says he normally makes $150 dollars/day. If assume he works five days a week, and a takes two weeks a year for vacation, he makes $38,000 a year! That's more than me, by a lot, and I got one of those schools to give me a pretty piece of paper too.
At first this had me thinking that maybe I should transition away from computer programming into the apparently more profitable field of begging, However, a couple of things occurred to me. For one, maybe the fellow does have an adavanced degree in mendicantry (like, a PhD in Art History or something). Secondly, there may be other reasons his endeavors are so profitable. Perhaps he is some sort of Super Mendicant.
I bet when Super Mendicant is near, coins just flow out of people's pants. New Yorkers, put into trance by the rhythmic shaking of his foul-smelling cup put dollars, gold bullion, and first born sons into his unwashed hands. His diabolical begging has no doubt driven many to poverty. To make it even worse, he spends all the dollars and gold bullion on booze, and the first born sons are indoctrinated into his army of underground sewer ninjas.
Who can stop this diabolical pan handling? Oh, I have an idea. I shall write a story about it, soon.
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