Con of the Week
Mark and I walking thru busy parking lot Sunday. A Ford Explorer drives by, slowly, with windows down. A woman leans out:
“Excuse me, do you speak English?”
“Yes,” we say in unison. She has a baby on her lap and begins her schpiel: “My boyfren’ was arrested for domestic violence after he beat me up and my father had to come pick up me and my baby and we have to go to Pomona and our tank is on empty.”
“Sorry we have no money,” we both quickly say, again in unison.
“God bless you.”
The “father” behind the steering wheel couldn’t have been older than his early 30s, at least from what I could see behind his shades. She better dig up an older guy if that’s her con line. And no matter how bad off anyone is, they sure as hell don’t want to go to Pomona. Unless they’re going to the fair.
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“Do you speak english” is always answered “Non, désole” for me and if they swtich to french I say, “sorry I don’t speak french either” by the time they realize I spoke both to answer them, I am usually long gone. That is of course if I haven’t said “fuck-off” before they said anything!
Comment by vincent-louis — December 4, 2007 @ 4:07 am