{"id":10574,"date":"2016-02-12T06:40:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10574"},"modified":"2016-02-11T21:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T03:11:46","slug":"the-homeless-guy-said-not-everybody-can-carry-that-look-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10574","title":{"rendered":"The Homeless Guy said &#8220;Not Everybody Can Carry That Look Off&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"_DSC0387\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/24338217074\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1691\/24338217074_e8b28becc8.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0387\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night I was at my liquor store downtown waiting in line to buy some\u00a0craft beer as a reward for the run I was about to do. The guy ahead of me in line had a bottle of vodka in one hand and a ten dollar bill in the other. He was a homeless guy that I have seen in and around downtown for years. He turned to me and said, &#8220;You know you look just like those guys in the old time photographs. That cap and a sportcoat and khaki slacks. You know not everybody can carry that look off but you can.&#8221; So I said thank you very much. He asked, &#8220;So what kind of cap is that?&#8221; and I said that it was called flat cap and a friend from Uruguay got it for me and I love it because it was pretty darn warm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So he said &#8220;Really&#8221; and asked to look at it and so I handed it to him and he said, &#8220;No wonder it is warm, it is wool felt.&#8221; And I said, &#8220;sure is&#8221; and he handed it back to me and turned his attention to the clerk as it was his turn.<\/p>\n<p>In a genial manner he told the clerk &#8220;Hey, that woman working here this morning said that I can only buy something once a day from you guys.&#8221; The clerk said, &#8220;That&#8217;s right sir we aren&#8217;t allowed to sell to the same person twice in a day.&#8221; So my new friend said, &#8220;Well you know that makes it kind of hard on me because I go through two of these a day&#8221; as he held up the bottle, &#8220;and I don&#8217;t want to be carrying one around all day. You know what I mean?&#8221; The clerk said, &#8220;I am sorry about that sir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then the clerk said, &#8220;You want this in your backpack sir?&#8221; and the my guy said &#8220;Sure lets put it in there&#8221; and while they are doing that he says, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t decided what I&#8217;m going to do yet. My daughter, \u00a0I haven&#8217;t seen her in 17 years is flying in and said she is going to find me and I don&#8217;t know whether I should meet her or just go get drunk. What do you think?&#8221; The clerk said &#8220;I think you should go meet your daughter.&#8221; And I said, &#8220;I vote for that plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guy laughed and said, &#8220;Well we&#8217;ll see what happens, you guys take care.&#8221; And off he went out of the store.<\/p>\n<p>For some strange reason, the guy made me feel good and bad at the same time. I have not met very many people so open, direct, and non-defensive as this guy.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever had a homeless guy make you feel good about yourself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday night I was at my liquor store downtown waiting in line to buy some\u00a0craft beer as a reward for the run I was about to do. The guy ahead of me in line had a bottle of vodka in one hand and a ten dollar bill in the other. He was a homeless guy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1270,1009,1604,1603],"class_list":["post-10574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-boring-personal-history","tag-homeless-people","tag-mysteries-of-life","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10575,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions\/10575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}