Tilly's Snow Covered Blanket (1396 hits)
Category: Quotes & StoriesLabels: uberbookshortstory
Rating: 1.61 on 29 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Big Jay <jgreening> (View user info) at 2004-11-29 11:56:49 EST
Well, I am sitting here today, at the good ol' security desk.
Watching people shuffle by, stuffed into their overcoats.
I hear mumbled "G'Morning" and "Hey" and the squeak of shoes on marble tile.
The coffee bar in the lobby is making insane business, they've run out of cocoa twice already, and it's 7:45.
And I stay here at the desk. Watching the monitors, laughing at the poor shlep in the parking garage who slid down the ramp because his tires show more metal than a kid in braces.
Finally, I decide to take a walk around the outside of the building, to get the blood flowing, and to see whether or not I would need to get out another bag of icemelt.
I take the turn down the alley, and as usual, I see a few pairs of legs on the other side of the dumpsters.
Probably Tilly and his friends taking their first swigs of the day.
As usual, I walk up next to the bin and let them know we have deliveries comeing, and they'll have to move, never mind the docks are on the other end of the alley.
Jacko and Mert get up and stagger away, but Tilly doesn't. He's generally a codger, anyway, so I think he's giving me a hard time.
That draws my usual response of a light kick to the foot. Never in a mean way, of course.
"C'mon, I'll buy ya coffee." I do when it's cold.
Then I realise, he hasn't moved in a few hours. The kinda-thick layer of snow on his blanket tells me that...
It's now 9:30AM. The ambulance just pulled away, I finished my statement to the PD, and I'm going to finish my rounds.
If I see Jacko and Mert, I'm gonna let them know, then I'm gonna buy them coffee. And thicker coats.
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Let me say first, this was last winter, in December of 03. The stories of snow reminded me of it, and I thought I should put it into words.
The point of the story? I'm really not sure. I don't do handouts to most homeless, because I can see through the scams they pull.
I guess the point is be nice when you should, be caring when you can, and be human at all times.
Or something like that.
User Reviews
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-11-17 13:58:25 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-11-17 13:54:03 (#)
Ranking: 2
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK WE BELIEVE YOUR TRUE/NOT TRUE LABEL YOU RETARDED FAT MONKEYGREASE EATING SPASTIC
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-11-17 13:12:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Fiction story, made to make a point.
Submitted by a7a_187 (user info) at 2004-12-03 02:26:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2004-12-01 17:36:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Got to go kill a bum now.
-Davros
Submitted by Wuzi (user info) at 2004-12-01 17:24:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Nice post but WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!? NO MONKEYS AND MSPAINT!?!?!?!? you said "This is why monkeies shouldn't have acces to MSPaint" on the uberboard, whats up with this?
+2 for story
-2 for no MSPaint monkeys
Submitted by strider (user info) at 2004-12-01 16:22:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for "Urban Camper" comment.
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2004-12-01 07:57:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
"Another touching story for another one of Bart's People. I'm Bart Simpson."
-Bart
good
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2004-12-01 02:00:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Because we both have posts on uberboard but i have one more hit than you do (decent post too)
http://www.ubersite.com/m/52990
Submitted by goleafsgo (user info) at 2004-11-30 23:06:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
good story
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2004-11-30 12:41:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
REALLY liked this.
Submitted by Faith (user info) at 2004-11-30 10:59:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Good
Submitted by Jungle_Jimanee (user info) at 2004-11-30 06:50:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Touched
Submitted by triple_optics (user info) at 2004-11-30 06:15:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Thank you.
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2004-11-30 05:59:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm more your 'Patrick Bateman' kind of good samaritan...
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2004-11-29 21:12:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Well, funny up until the part where the guy is dead. That's not too funny. A homeless guy (an alcoholic but still loved by the community) died outside the building where I work last year. A lot of people were pissed because he got a bigger funeral than a war veteran who had died that week. This is headline news in a city of only 135 000.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2004-11-29 21:08:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Great story, and well written. But for the whole day I've been talking like Christopher Walken to my friends and now I can't get his speaking cadence out of my head and it kinda took away some of the story for me. Damn. But it is funny if you read it like Walken would.
Submitted by Mitchell (user info) at 2004-11-29 19:59:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
what would happen if i swallowed a capsule of radium?
Submitted by SPECIALk (user info) at 2004-11-29 19:10:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2004-11-29 15:57:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
The first worthwhile Christmas message of the year.
Submitted by LadyPlural (user info) at 2004-11-29 15:39:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for the story and for being a relatively new addition to Ubersite and not sucking. Not that I'm trying to sound all "Well, in the good old days, things were good. And old. And damnit, they were days. But they were better than things are now, and..." but many newer authors (and some old ones- me, for example, although I have had my moments) suck. And that's putting it nicely.
Submitted by DanielH (user info) at 2004-11-29 15:13:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Solid writing: Big Mike w/o the lyrics.
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2004-11-29 15:12:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Ahh I don't like to think of them as homeless, maybe just urban campers.
Submitted by BoogieFevuh (user info) at 2004-11-29 14:54:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked it
Submitted by kai070169 (user info) at 2004-11-29 14:23:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by houseman (user info) at 2004-11-29 12:50:18 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Nice story
Submitted by lessthanfour (user info) at 2004-11-29 12:37:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Good story, well written.
Submitted by ICO (user info) at 2004-11-29 12:31:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Some weak-harted tree-hugger also lets some hobos sleep at our train station.
Submitted by AwesomeJohnson (user info) at 2004-11-29 12:23:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
this post did for my thanksgiving (ok, post thanksgiving) what the great pumpkin does for halloween.
Submitted by ardubs (user info) at 2004-11-29 12:06:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment