The word from the street
TONY
“Did I tell you that I got my hub cap gotten stolen this morning.”
PHILIP
“This wouldn’t be a hub cap from the van that that woman wrote about on the blog last week?”
TONY
“No, no a guy gave me a Hyundai hub cap. You know I ain’t got a van, fer chrissakes. No, this guy just figured the hub cap had come off a car, which is a pretty good guess if you know what I mean. After he gave it to me so as I maybe could sell it, someone came by and stole it from me while I was on my smoke break.”
TONY
“You know Brad at Brad’s restaurant just down here? I asked him the other evening after he closed if he could spare a buck for dinner. Well he asked me how much I needed for dinner and he gave me the whole $7 that I needed.
“We should tell the people on our blog, you know what i mean.”
TONY
“Did I show you this. Actually, I got one for you as well.”
PHILIP
“How’d you get them?
TONY
“Some of the guys from 14 Division took me out for dinner last night if you can believe that.”
PHILIP
“What … they just popped you in a squad car and sped off to the local doughnut shop?”
TONY
“Sort of like that. So after dinner, they gave me one of these things so I just asked them for another one.”
TONY
Look what I found.”
PHILIP
“What’s that?”
TONY
“I found him on the road here. It’s a little bluebird. I can’t let him just get run over.”
PHILIP
“Holy smokes! So what are you going to do now?”
TONY
“Didn’t I tell you once that one of my regulars knows all about animals. I’ll take it over to her place. She’ll know the thing that we should do.”
PHILIP
“What are you sitting over here now?” [Tony is now located in front of Timothy’s coffee shop; click the Google Maps logo to see more.]
TONY
“Well, they were really nice about it, but some of the stores to me were getting a bit tired having me outside their building all the time. So I negotiated with the guy who owns Timothys to sometimes sit in front of his store.”
TONY
“Remember that guy, the one who was missing his marbles, you know, the guy we talked about on the blog a few months back?”
PHILIP
“The one with the scraggly brown beard and the hair? He’s doesn’t seem to be around anymore.”
TONY
“Well they decided to help him so he’s in the Clarke. Now he’s got to deal with all those crazy shrinks.”
Homeless Man Speaks 