Paula Headley will most likely need to relocate & give up her gig on Fifth Avenue.
(Pity only the newspaper has the photos). I assume it’s a part time gig that could be stretched in to a full-time position. I don’t know who you’d send your resume to, and from the sound of it, you’d be best off providing your own blanket or plastic garbage bags.
About 12 years ago I happened to be in the city, and I happened to look like a bum that day. I was curious if the stories I’d heard about panhandlers making a killing were true. Took me under 15 minutes to make 40 bucks outside of Penn Station, and I was just standing there with a cup. I never asked anyone for anything – just made eye contact with people as they approached. I can’t imagine how much I’d have gotten if I had actually been trying. It was definitely an eye-opener.
Incidentally, it all wound up going into a Salvation Army bucket.
Which is why I don’t give money to panhandlers.
I think the panhandlers make more during the holiday season so the year total may be lower.
…or to Salvation Army buckets. 
Busted.
OK - I’ve been waiting to tell this story and this seems as good an opportunity as any…….
My wife and daughter and I went to Japan this summer to see her family. My mother in law is very nice, but much like a lot of other older people she has managed to collect a bunch of old crap that she takes great joy in giving to us as “presents”.
She gave my daughter a hideous old beaded purse when we saw her trip, but of course my daughter loved it. A few days into the trip we decided to go to Kyoto, a very beautiful and historically significant city. While sight seeing one night we passed a pet sop and my wife and daughter went in to see the puppies. I declined and decided to wait outside, and my daughter asked me to hold her purse. I should mention that it was VERY hot in Kyoto so I was quite sweaty. Furthermore I had broken my leg a few weeks prior to the trip so I had been dragging myself along on crutches and was very tired and haggard looking, with my crutches and cast, holding an old ratty purse.
I made the mistake of opening the purse out of curiosity – well this was apparently a signal of some sort. People began approaching me and handing me money! Not speaking Japanese I was unable to tell them Thank You, I actually had plenty of money, but they just kept waving coins under my nose. Just about this time my wife and daughter come out of the store and see what’s going on – they thought it was the funniest DAMN thing they ever saw! My wife almost peed herself laughing.
I’m not the source of unending amusement in our house. :rolleyes:
According to ‘Dumpster Dining’ it’s an internationally renowned signal that says ‘Hey Brother, can you help out an out-of-work cross dresser’