I remember a moment in The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, though the line probably didn’t originate there, when Sidney, a sweetheart but a blowhard, says to Alton, his friend who’s out to save the world, “It’s one thing to bring bread to the poor. It’s another thing to sit there and eat it with them.”
Probably a good idea to ask first, though, if that’s what they want.
Which brings me to Campanha, Portugal, where one of the two train stations that services Porto is located. A woman was unapologetically demanding money from everyone in the waiting area. As I didn’t have any euros on me, I offered her the baguette I had just bought.
She looked at me as if I was giving her a bag of rabies and waved me off.
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