I've been on the road since about 9:30 this morning running all sorts of errands and taking care of business. I passed through a major intersection where teenagers from a local Christian school were asking for donations for a mission trip to Mexico. At another intersection, some Shriners were asking for donations. At one more major intersection, I saw a guy wearing camo pants, a sleeveless t-shirt and a ball cap holding a cardboard sign saying "Will Work For Food." I wish I'd had my camera with me, because if I'd held up a camera to take a picture of this guy and his sign, in the picture you would have clearly been able to see a fast food store marquee sign saying "Now Hiring."
Yep, in the background was a Dairy Queen with "Now Hiring" on their big sign. The guy could have walked about 100 yards to the DQ and gotten a job. If he really wanted one. But yet he chose to stand out in a busy intersection and hold a handmade sign in hopes that people would stop and give him money. I could be entirely wrong, but I really don't think the guy was holding that sign with the hope that someone would see it and offer him a job.
The guys arms and face were tanned, so I'm guessing he'd been out in the sun doing this for a while. And his clothes didn't look all that bad nor were they tattered. He had a nice backpack leaning up against a road sign; he didn't have his belongings tied up in a bandana at the end of a stick like the hobos carry on the cartoons. He wasn't skinny from not eating; in fact, he looked pretty buffed to me. But for some reason, I guess he just didn't want to work at Dairy Queen.
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