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NY street scam

Thomas Westphal 1972 (Bochum)

crash send food flying
once guilty mind got thick skin
walk on with a smile

About this poem

I wrote this happy haiku after some guys tryed to unsucessfully pull a super old scam on me today. Those guys are going around, bumping into unsuspecting people. One will drop his to-go box on the ground after bumping into you. They both get mad and demand money. Then one scoops up the food off the ground to “clean up” while the other collects your money to pay for the food. Time to show the middle finger and keep walking. I wont be that guy, not today not tomorrow.

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Written on October 31, 2023

Submitted by westphal.tom on October 31, 2023

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