CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Novel begging approach from street mendicant http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Novel begging approach from street mendicant en Tue, 19 May 2026 18:42:38 +0000 gembo on "Novel begging approach from street mendicant" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18431#post-268516 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:55:46 +0000 gembo 268516@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sounds like he was winning the match too, hence the grudging indication that he would be receiving the golf balls.</p> <p>Only 25 per cent of golfers backed the Indy ref you say? </p> sallyhinch on "Novel begging approach from street mendicant" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18431#post-268515 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:38:37 +0000 sallyhinch 268515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>At least they were on the 17th when you re-opened that little can of worms ... </p> gembo on "Novel begging approach from street mendicant" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18431#post-268514 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:35:25 +0000 gembo 268514@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Golfer four may not have received his freedom but at least he got his balls </p> I were right about that saddle on "Novel begging approach from street mendicant" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18431#post-268507 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:14:19 +0000 I were right about that saddle 268507@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I just reverse begged. Found four golf balls on my run, offered them to whichever of the foursome I came across on the seventeenth green of Braids One would admit to voting Yes in 2014. Three of them grimly indicated the fourth who gratefully received the bounty. </p> jdanielp on "Novel begging approach from street mendicant" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18431#post-268504 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 13:34:23 +0000 jdanielp 268504@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Makes a change to being asked for bus fare I suppose. When City Singles used to exist I would occasionally cause confusion by offering one instead of small change. </p> gembo on "Novel begging approach from street mendicant" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18431#post-268486 Sat, 02 Dec 2017 10:17:39 +0000 gembo 268486@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was locking cooncil lecky bike up at the racks in rose street outside sainsburys and was approached by an enterprising fellow who asked for 60p to make a phone call. Yes from a phone box. I gave him 40p reckoning the likelihood of the call happening to be zero. He did say you did not get man minutes for the 60p minimum </p>