subway griping

I dislike when panhandlers ask for money and follow it up with "Just one penny! Can you spare just one penny?" They don't want a fucking penny.

If you indicate in some way that, no, you cannot spare a penny, you are clearly dissembling. If you actually give a single penny, your literalism makes you look like a jackass. You cannot win. Do people who give money to panhandlers really respond positively to such manipulation?

I also dislike the one-man-band guy who plays in the Grand Central and Times Square stations. He ruins every song he plays by adding a monotonous, continual kickdrum to it. "Mr. Jones and Me" did not originally have a marching-band-style kickdrum on every single downbeat, and it does not need one now.

Just because you can hit a drum with your leg while playing the guitar does not mean you should. Maybe you are also coordinated enough to do the Charleston while medicating your hemorrhoids. Please keep it out of the subway.