When Scott and I were sitting on a bench in a public park, some guy sitting beside us started saying “Hey. Hey.” I forget if we turned or not. Then he said, “Give me some money!”
We pretended not to understand and quietly talked to ourselves about it and tried to make sure they couldn’t tell we spoke English or were American. The guy and his friends continued talking about us and sometimes tried to talk to us more, but we never responded no matter what they did. We were pretty impressed with their persistence. But we were also in total disbelief that anyone would ever say that to anyone. Would you ever dream of walking up to a stranger in America and just saying to them in French, “Hey, gimme some money!”
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