PHILIP
“Cold enough for you?”
TONY
“I’d tell you something but we can’t have those kinds of words on our blog or the kids won’t be able to read it.”
The word from the street
PHILIP
“Cold enough for you?”
TONY
“I’d tell you something but we can’t have those kinds of words on our blog or the kids won’t be able to read it.”
TONY
“Well that’s another of us gone. Did you know that Marty’s dead? He just died over the weekend.”
PHILIP
“Who’s Marty?”
TONY
“You know the short homeless guy who was selling the newspapers in front of Sobey’s just down Ronces? Well he died.”
PHILIP
“Sure, I remember him but I didn’t know his name was Marty. He seemed a nice guy to me.”
TONY
“He was saying how he was feeling terrible and went to the hospital on Saturday and he had a heart attack and he died Sunday. You know he was turning 50 next week, eh?”
PHILIP
“You mean 60? He couldn’t have been just 49. He looked way too old for being 49.”
TONY
“Well let me tell you, he put a lot of things into himself in his life that shouldn’t have been put in there — and he liked a drink too so you know what I mean.”
PHILIP
“How’s things?”
TONY
“Someone asked me what I would do if I could change my life yesterday.”
PHILIP
“What did you say?”
TONY
“I thought you would ask me that. Anyway, I told them I needed time to think about it. When it’s one of those big questions like that, you got to give it some time.”
PHILIP
“Sounds like a wise approach to me.”
TONY
“I saw her again the other day. You know the one, blond one I told you about that I would just fall in love with in a heartbeat, you know the one who’s doing the acting and stuff.”
PHILIP
“And then …”
TONY
“Well she touched me on the shoulder, right there, and I just about melted right there, if you know what I mean. ”
PHILIP
“And then what?
TONY
“Well, you know, she’s the kind I’d want to change up my whole life for. Well, you know I’m too old anyway.”
PHILIP
“You’re never too old, you know.”
TONY
“That’s true, I gotta say, everything is possible. “
PHILIP
“Did you hear about the homeless guy who killed the cop with a snow plow?”
TONY
“Well it just shows you that homeless folks can be psycho as anyone else is. I just feel sorry for that cop’s family is all I can say.”
PHILIP
“I wanted to tell you that I posted the video about that homeless guy with the radio announcer voice.”
TONY
“Well he sure deserved to get an another chance with a voice like that one. Some people deserve a second chance, if you know what I mean.”
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Tony and Philip
TONY
“I dreamed that I found a wallet last night.”
PHILIP
“So did you return it?”
TONY
“What do you think? The girl who lost it was really nice and she gave me a $1,000 dollars but, you know, I didn’t even take it from her. But I don’t think I could really say “no” in real life.”
PHILIP
“That’s maybe being a bit too proud, maybe.”
TONY
“Don’t I know it.”