Re: This joke maybe relevant

[paulrw@xa2.com.au (paul)]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:43:32 GMT, Michael Kurkowski
<mk@netstra.com.au> wrote:

>David Johnson said in message <38F5D651.AF3A0D51@ozemail.com.au>, I
>therefore quote: 
>
>>Eric Cartman wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I was forwarded this joke. Change the New York to Central or Flinders
>>> Street or Vulture Street and you get the idea. I think it is quite
>>> true. I'm sick of being asked 50 million times a day for a dollar,
>>> loose change or a smoke. 
>>
>>If I am in uniform, I will tell them that it is an offence to solicit
>>money on railway premises.  If I am not in uniform, I am less pleasant.
>
>"Sorry, this is the year 2000, I only use plastic" - i get the biggest 
>filthy looks when I do that, but, for the build I am they know better than 
>to get on my wrong side (: (except for the ones that hang out around the 
>ATMs in swanston street, anyone in Melbourne would know who im referring 
>to). Don't really feel like having a beer bottle smashed over my head...
>

When they say to me "You wouldn't have a spare cigarette would you", I
say  "You are quite correct, I wouldn't". I often direct them to the
milk bar or tobacconist  over the road where they have heaps of them
spare.

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