{"id":15566,"date":"2010-06-24T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15566"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:15","slug":"lapp-dave-window-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15566","title":{"rendered":"Lapp, Dave – Window #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What’s your general behavior towards bums?\u00c2\u00a0 Or is “homeless people” the preferred term?\u00c2\u00a0 Drifters?\u00c2\u00a0 Vagrants?\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever the word is, anybody who has spent any amount of time working or living in a big city has developed some sort of strategy by now.\u00c2\u00a0 Do you give them your spare change?\u00c2\u00a0 Stare straight ahead and ignore them completely, no matter what they say or do?\u00c2\u00a0 Take them on a case by case basis, so that you end up only giving money to the most needy\/most accomplished con artists?\u00c2\u00a0 I was always a sucker for them when I worked in downtown Columbus, or at least often a sucker.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m bringing all this up because the first story in this installment of Window is a detailed account of a time that Dave was accosted on the street by a homeless man.\u00c2\u00a0 He had some warning, as he could hear and see the guy yelling at other people as they passed him, but Dave hoped to scoot past him.\u00c2\u00a0 No such luck, and the man is soon following Dave on his way to work, yelling and cursing the whole way, but all while telling a story that makes him at least a little sympathetic.\u00c2\u00a0 Dave finally decides to give him $5 (as by this point the guy has already had his arm around Dave a few times and Dave is getting a little freaked out by the whole thing), but the guy still doesn’t get the hint and ends up following Dave all the way to the train station.\u00c2\u00a0 He even gives Dave his number and asks Dave to call him sometime, which saves Dave the embarrassment of having to come up with a fake name and address of his own.\u00c2\u00a0 The other story in this deals with Dave trying to get the names of a couple of new students down and being unable to understand what one of the small kids is getting at when she just has to go to the bathroom.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t worry, I didn’t spoil the whole thing, there are still plenty of nuggets in here for you to uncover when you rent it from my comic rental store in the future, or if you manage to find it for sale somewhere.\u00c2\u00a0 As always it’s well worth a look, and he does seem to have a knack for excellent closing panels…<\/p>\n

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Website Window #2 What’s your general behavior towards bums?\u00c2\u00a0 Or is “homeless people” the preferred term?\u00c2\u00a0 Drifters?\u00c2\u00a0 Vagrants?\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever the word is, anybody who has spent any amount of time working or living in a big city has developed some sort of strategy by now.\u00c2\u00a0 Do you give them your spare change?\u00c2\u00a0 Stare straight ahead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3019,514],"class_list":["post-15566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dave-lapp","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15566"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16346,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566\/revisions\/16346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}