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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 318862, member: 2100&quot;]Last summer, I participated with a church related mission work trip that went to Slidell, Louisiana (just east of New Orleans) to do home construction to aid the elderly and disabled as part of a Katrina relief effort. We took an afternoon to sightsee a bit in New Orleans itself. While a group of us were walking down the sidewalk, one of the locals stopped us and chatted a bit. At one point, he started singing a song in a uniquely New Orleans style (not sure what it should be called), with the very deep voice. He was really quite entertaining, but I am doubtfull that he was entirely sober. Some people are strange enough that it is hard to tell if they are under some sort of influence. Anyway, after completing his performance, he indicated that we each owed him a dollar. </p><p><br /></p><p>I like to spend halves, dollar coins, and $2 bills and such and watch reactions. The Washington dollars had not been out all that long, but I had some in my pocket. After pretty much everyone had given him a dollar bill, he turns to me and I gave him a Washington dollar coin. Looking at it through his bloodshot eyes, he began to exclaim very loudly (and very often) &quot;The brother gave me a quarta!!&quot;, &quot;Can you believe it? The brother gave me a QUARTA!!!!!&quot; My attempts to inform him that it was a dollar went unheeded, as he stumbled off down the street, repeating those phrases at least until out of our earshot. By far my most memorable event.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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