Subj : Re: deaf and dumb
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Fri Jan 22 2021 09:32 am

On 22 Jan 2021, August Abolins said the following...
 AA> Yesterday I got a flashback to the past when a deaf/dumb fellow  
 AA> walked into my shop.  I didn't think the deaf/dumb tactic was a  
 AA> thing anymore.

Anything and everything can be used as a tactic.  Beyond the dozens of
Homeless Veterans I see on the corners, a new 'favorite' of mine are these
Gentlemen with signs saying "Too Honest to Steal, Too Ugly to be a Gigalo." 
 AA> The last time this sort of thing happend was over 8 years ago. A  
 AA> couple of singers with their guitars came into my shop,  
 AA> accompanying an apparrently a deaf girl. The premise was that my  
 AA> dollars would help pay for her livelyhood, or act as a tip for  
 AA> their wonderful unsolicited music, or something. At first I  
 AA> thought that maybe someone was delivering a singing telegram.  
 AA> But the request to pay for the performance combined with the  
 AA> begging really pissed me off more than anything.
 AA> 

Don't you have legal options to handle unwelcomed solucitations in your
establishment?

 AA> At times like this I wish I could brandish my Crocadile Dundee  
 AA> "you call that a knife?" machette, or call "Tiny", my doberman  
 AA> with a spiked collar, to escort these types out the door.

Actually, Dundee's knifecwas more like a Bowie knife.

I could see not having a d9g in a bookstore, but some means of self defense
should be aporoprriate.

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