I follow the generally accepted White Boy Creed of "don't make eye contact." It's magical. As long as you don't make eye contract you haven't heard them, you don't exist and they don't exist.

It's like when you were really young and you thought that if you covered your eyes you were invisible. Same deal. Only it works.

~Spin

One bum told me an interesting tale about how he's so poor that his family has to unscrew the lone lightbulb in the house and take it with them if they're going into a different room and want light. I laughed in amazement and gave him a $5.

I saw him again about 2 months later and this time he said he needed bus fare to get back home and wanted to sell me his umbrella for like $3. I asked him what he did with the $5 I gave him last time, and he admitted the umbrella thing was a "hustle" and we ended up in a shouting match with him saying I needed to lose weight and me calling him on his balding hairline. A draw.

One time my friends gave some RANDOM guys in a car $35 because the guys said they could get them good weed...guess what?! the guys never showed up again....obviously

You know its odd. I have been asked several times for money downtown and sometimes its just some guy askign for a dollar but there have been several occasions in which i have been asked for exactly 3 dollars and 2 of the times it was because someones car broke down and they needed to make a long distance phone call on a payphone to call a friend or something. one time i really didn't have 3 dollars and this guy kept talkign to me for at Least 10-15 minutes dispite my attemps to leave. its seems like one could EASily get $3 if they went down onto redriver or a more congested street and just asked 3 people for a dollar. i even suggested that he do that and he wouldn't. I deffinatly thought it was strange that he needed exactly $3 so badly and wouldn't go ask anybody if he could borrow thier cellphone. I really don't see what you can significantly do with a measly $3 surely crack is more expensive than that

Could be his brothers license? These guys will go as low as possible to get their next fix.

One has to wonder... how much crack can $3 realistically buy?

You have his "address". Go to it, stake it out until you see if it is actually his house. If it is, beat him senseless. If it is not his house, beat up whoever lives there. Violence is always the answer.

I wouldn't have let it get as far as him not showing up. I always say I don't have any money—which is frequently true as I usually avoid carrying cash at all.

However... leaving it at the desk as lost is a good call.

One wonders what a guy who's willing to give up his license for $3 is after. He's gotta be desperate, and he can't realistically expect to get the license back. So, desperate for what?

Sell that on a black market for 200 $ :)

I have actually had this happen before. A friend I was with gave the guy $20(!) in exchange for his license. When the guy paid him back it was with a check...that bounced.

Did you check the dates to see if it was an old license?