Word: guys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STAFF WRITERS: Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Sara C. Medina, Jamie Murphy, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Nancy Traver, Amy Wilentz...
Most people don't even turn for this guy. He's kind of shy, the kind of bum who looks guilty when he's shaking you down so it's easy to figure that he doesn't deserve your quarter anyhow. His is an apologetic, bad boy look: "Sorry, Mom, I'm a bum. Can I have my quarter...
...often don't give guys like this anything, figuring--justifiably--that all the yuppies cruising the Square with more money than I have should be buying this guy's coffee. Or I figure--also justifiably--that I just can't give every time I am asked. I'd be asked more often, for one thing. (I think of my aunt who is so in touch with her fellow man that she gets her car windows washed at least seven or eight times every time she drives through the Bowery...
...this is a bitch of a cold night and the guy with the sad look must need a quarter pretty bad or he wouldn't be out in it. I hand him a buck on my way back from the bank. Big deal. Not really: a tiny fraction of this month's cafe money. When I give it to him, he looks like he's just been cured of cancer...
...convince myself that the guy standing on Mass. Ave. in sub-zero winds at one in the morning is just looking for a free ride? Or that someone else will give him the quarter I won't? We're alone on the street tonight. Just...