There’s a guy who panhandles for change outside the 24 hour drug/convenience store in our neighbourhood. His name is Al. Al had been doing this for as long as I could remember – he was a fixture. Day in and day out, he’d stand by the front door holding an old paper coffee cup, bumming for change. I first talked about Al in a series I did last year. He appeared in the story entitled “Buddy Can You Spare a Tweet” As improbable as it seemed, Al had started up a social media consultancy run from his Blackberry.
After that, I hadn’t seen Al in a while. Nobody had. I had asked about him. Weeks went by. No sign of Al. Then tonight, I saw him again, in his old familiar spot. He had his old familiar paper cup which he pushed out as people walked by. But there was something new. Now he had a sign. When I stopped to talk to him I looked at it. It read…
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