This was a new one for me.
I was going into Subway on El Cajon Boulevard here in San Diego, when a street person in tattered clothes walked over to me.
"Hey mister," he said. "Can you give me some money for a meatball sandwich?"
Specificity…
PS: Now I feel guilty: somewhere there is someone out there who desperately needs a meatball sandwich.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.