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That’s Their Term for Humility

Hobo: Man, can you spare some change so I can buy a slice of pizza?
Brit guy: I haven’t got any pizza.

–104th & Broadway

Overheard by: Ron Caldwell

  • Posted on April 6, 2006
  • Food, Hobos, Manhattan, Money & Class, Pizza, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center
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