An honest buck
A homeless man on the tube the other day asked for money. And guess what? He got it.
His approach you ask?
“Can I please have some money to buy some drugs?”
And as I got off, I heard my mate say: “If I had a few spare pounds, I’d give it to him – at least he was honest.”
And it made me think we must really be lacking in honesty if he stood out so much by his demonstration of it that people could reward him so.
We must really feel that we live in a dishonest world. Or at the very least crave it, so that we treasure it when we see it.
How honest are we really? And when is it okay to let it go a little bit?
Because let’s face it sometimes honesty can be a bit too much. We’d all appreciate packaged bite-sized chunks of truth rather than buying it in bulk.
The honesty line confuses me as much as working in the ambiguous line of advertising. Am I above the line, though the line, offline, online or a line unto itself?
I am guilty of hearing the line: “Oh my god, you’re so honest.”
And by being this way, it has often encouraged people to play the honesty game with me.
Why do I use the word ‘game’. Because it goes like this: “To be honest with you, I don’t play games.” A little scary – when I’m only half-way through the first pint on the first date. Jesus, where did that come from? I was still on the ‘do you like dogs debate’.
It’s kind of funny because where honesty comes out of nowhere – often an ulterior motive seems to follow quickly behind.
Am I being too honest with you now? After all, I’m revealing the true cynical side of me when I hear a guy make this ‘honest’ declaration.
Why do you have to declare it? Shouldn’t it be obvious?
Or, are we merely professing that when it comes to meeting someone not all of us are truly honest. How would we handle that?
“I’m a man that’s just been dumped and henceforth will have weighty insecurity issues until I do something about it.”
Or
“I just fancy you for a shag but I want it under the pretence of being meaningful.”
It seems honesty doesn’t lead itself to mystery. And that is the one downside in the dating game. Do you really want to know everything about someone after you’ve finished your first pint?
His approach you ask?
“Can I please have some money to buy some drugs?”
And as I got off, I heard my mate say: “If I had a few spare pounds, I’d give it to him – at least he was honest.”
And it made me think we must really be lacking in honesty if he stood out so much by his demonstration of it that people could reward him so.
We must really feel that we live in a dishonest world. Or at the very least crave it, so that we treasure it when we see it.
How honest are we really? And when is it okay to let it go a little bit?
Because let’s face it sometimes honesty can be a bit too much. We’d all appreciate packaged bite-sized chunks of truth rather than buying it in bulk.
The honesty line confuses me as much as working in the ambiguous line of advertising. Am I above the line, though the line, offline, online or a line unto itself?
I am guilty of hearing the line: “Oh my god, you’re so honest.”
And by being this way, it has often encouraged people to play the honesty game with me.
Why do I use the word ‘game’. Because it goes like this: “To be honest with you, I don’t play games.” A little scary – when I’m only half-way through the first pint on the first date. Jesus, where did that come from? I was still on the ‘do you like dogs debate’.
It’s kind of funny because where honesty comes out of nowhere – often an ulterior motive seems to follow quickly behind.
Am I being too honest with you now? After all, I’m revealing the true cynical side of me when I hear a guy make this ‘honest’ declaration.
Why do you have to declare it? Shouldn’t it be obvious?
Or, are we merely professing that when it comes to meeting someone not all of us are truly honest. How would we handle that?
“I’m a man that’s just been dumped and henceforth will have weighty insecurity issues until I do something about it.”
Or
“I just fancy you for a shag but I want it under the pretence of being meaningful.”
It seems honesty doesn’t lead itself to mystery. And that is the one downside in the dating game. Do you really want to know everything about someone after you’ve finished your first pint?
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