Cagey Cane

*The Photo you see is from fassettphoto.com

I was driving down the road at a whipping 35mph today and I guess the whipping part was the wind coming in through my small, triangular windowless frame on the passenger side of my Jeep Cherokee. Previously, there was a window before some methhead (or some otherwise addled person of desperate status)
broke the window with a screwdriver and jacked my car stereo.

I have to give this hooligan his (is it sexist to imagine it was a man?) due because it could have been much worse. Nothing else was stolen and he did break the smallest window, didn't damage the car too much, etc.

Like I said earlier, I was driving down the road at a whipping speed when I saw a man walking down the street swinging a cane with a four-pronged base while walking happily. Judging by my keen eye of homelessness and generally impequniousness I was able to ascertain that this man with a jovial and proverbial spring in his step was, above being physically mobile, homeless.

Let me tell you that there are many fakers and goldbrickers in the homeless community and this was merely one who I saw one day in an odd set of circumstances which revealed his hoax. Certainly, in all walks of life there exist personages who will try to flim-flam others and swindle, et al, but as an astute reader, I imagine, you have already come across this valuable information.

More valuable to you is this additional tidbit: homeless people with canes are not all injured and infirm. Their weak gaits are a decoy and their canes are weapons to be brandished at the first scent of fight or flight confrontations.

Do not mistake a man with a cane as being weak. Think of him instead as cagey.