{"id":1058,"date":"2007-06-25T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2007-06-25T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T17:26:00","slug":"summertime-money-making-idea-for-downtowns-bums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/summertime-money-making-idea-for-downtowns-bums\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime money-making idea for Downtown&#8217;s bums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever walked the streets of Downtown when there&#8217;s even a 20% possibility of rain?  All the bums will be out, carrying the rattiest-looking umbrellas on Earth.  If as much as one drop falls from the sky, they&#8217;ll open their umbrellas and rush over to you.  &#8220;Here, sir, let me keep you dry,&#8221; they&#8217;ll say as they hold the umbrella over your head.  Then they&#8217;ll walk with you and tell you their sob story.  &#8220;I ain&#8217;t had nothin&#8217; to eat in about three days&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, last night I was walking home, after an evening of drinking mimosas and hanging out with friends.  About every 10 feet, I had to stop and scratch my legs &#8211; yep, it&#8217;s officially mosquito season.  They&#8217;re everywhere.  One of my friends, who had a tube top on, got several nasty bites on her back.  As I walked home I noticed I wasn&#8217;t the only one stopping to scratch and slap mosquitoes away &#8211; everyone was doing it.<\/p>\n<p>So, if I were a bum, I&#8217;d head to Walgreens and invest in a pocket-sized bottle of Off or Cutter, then walk around the streets and look for people trying to chase mosquitoes away.  &#8220;Bug spray, sir?&#8221;  Those bugs were making me absolutely MISERABLE last night and I gladly would&#8217;ve tipped a dollar for the chance to spray down my arms and legs &#8211; as annoying as the bums are, the mosquitoes are worse.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I invested in some Cutter myself &#8211; got a value pack, a 6-ounce bottle and a bonus 1-ounce pocket-sized bottle.  Think I&#8217;ll keep the 1-ouncer with me all the time for myself and my friends, and just use the 6-ouncer to refill the little one when it gets low.  Unlike the bums, I don&#8217;t plan on charging&#8230; although, hmmm&#8230; maybe I should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever walked the streets of Downtown when there&#8217;s even a 20% possibility of rain? All the bums will be out, carrying the rattiest-looking umbrellas on Earth. If as much as one drop falls from the sky, they&#8217;ll open their umbrellas and rush over to you. &#8220;Here, sir, let me keep you dry,&#8221; they&#8217;ll say as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/summertime-money-making-idea-for-downtowns-bums\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summertime money-making idea for Downtown&#8217;s bums&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->