Monday, September 21, 2015

take off the beads

So last night at about 3am I was headed 
home via bike, and at an intersection 
I was approached by a lone European tourist 
who was hopelessly lost and had just been 
robbed and beaten up. His hands were all bloody 
and he was in tears. He had no money and 
no phone, and was headed in the wrong direction. 
"Just take it easy. I'm going to help you," I said. 
"First step: take OFF the Mardi Gras beads." 
So he did. Then I walked him, tears flowing, 
all the way down Bourbon Street until I found a cabbie 
willing to take him to his hotel for twenty bucks.

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