# No, I don't have $5 to give you for gas.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 22, 2009, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-dont-have-5-to-give-you-for-gas/518505 "2009-11-22T06:03:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-dont-have-5-to-give-you-for-gas/518505/181 "2009-12-09T05:11:00Z")

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Perhaps she didn’t have a nickel, but was skilled at begging for sandwiches? 🙂

As for beggars, well, it usually depends (and I’m frequently pretty short of money myself). I do tend to be suspicious of apparently healthy young men who seem to need a bus fare when I know even I could walk into the city centre, and it’s good weather and a light evening.so there is no need for bus fare, pal. No, it’s just because a supermarket with a few ATMs outside it looks like a good hunting ground, I suppose. Hmm, yeah, I suppose it sounds very picky but preferring not to be an easy hit.

Some other times, yes. Possibly a more “at risk” looking person would get money. Depends what I’ve got, depends how nervous of strangers I feel at at that minute … all of that.

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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-i-dont-have-5-to-give-you-for-gas/518505/182 "2009-12-09T07:11:27Z")

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> [@Jolly\_Roger](#):
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> OMG…I remember having to sing that song in summer camp way back in 1973 or so. I barely remember the words, but you’ve sparked them. Wasn’t there aline about a sandwich in the song somewhere?

- cough\*  
**Appleciders** had already made the MTA reference in post 167, and my post 168 was an apparently over-subtle reference to that lyric. I really thought it was more widely known than it is.

[QUOTE=Attack from the 3rd dimension]

The thing to do would have been to hand him a sandwich as the train went rumblin’ through.  
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The lyric in question:

[QUOTE=The Kingston Trio]

Charlie’s wife goes down  
To the Scollay Square station  
Every day at quarter past two  
And through the open window  
She hands Charlie a sandwich  
As the train comes rumblin’ through  
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