Tipping the "Obamanomics" Way...
"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
m...
> Something interesting I thought I'd share...
>
> This weekend I took a friend out for a birthday dinner. Went to a little
> Pan - Asian place down the block, a place I'd never patronised but it was
> the choice of the Birthday Gal...
>
> A pleasant meal in a nice space, dinner with a coupla drinks ran about
> $60.00...
>
> The service was very pleasant and enthusiastic, provided by a cute young
> guy. When informed that this was a birthday "event" he treated us to
> dessert...
>
> I noticed that he was wearing a big "Gays for Obama" button (with the
> requisite ghastly rainbow logo...if gays have such supposedly good taste
> why
> do they *still* insist on donning that dreary 70's _Free To Be You And Me_
> rainbow logo relic...???}. I said to him, "Did you vote yet?". "Oh yeah,
> I
> can't wait 'til he's president, we gotta get this country going again"...
>
> So I gave him a big smile and said, "Well, since you are a big fan of
> Obama
> and his policies I know you won't mind if I don't tip you. The $20.00 I'd
> normally leave you I'm going to 'donate' to the first homeless person I
> see.
> I know that Obama is big on the 're-distributing the wealth' thing..."...
>
> He gave me what can be described as a "look". I got up to leave and gave
> him a huge smile, saying, "I wish you luck on election day"...once we left
> I
> could see him through the window, commiserating with the other waitstaff
> and
> pointing at me...he was not "smiling", shall we say.
>
> A few minutes later I espied a homeless guy selling copies of the local
> Chicago homeless "newspaper" _Streetwise_...he too was wearing a big Obama
> button. I gave him a twenty, saying, "Keep it, man, Obama told me to give
> this to you", to which he replied, "Hey, thanks, man! Thanks, thanks a
> LOT...!!!"...and we both gave each other a big "thumbs up". I felt real,
> *real* good that I had done my duty as a good citizen...I knew that the
> "Karma God" was surely beaming down very kindly at me this evening..
>
> Anyways, I think this was a pretty good demonstration of "Obamanomics" in
> action...I'm a big believer in "putting one's money where one's mouth is"
> and all that jazz...
>
> Oh, and be sure to VOTE on Election Day, or if you have early voting in
> your
> state you can vote right now...
>
> :-)
So you didn't get your dick sucked I take it?
Paul
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