In the thick of it
This afternoon I was rushing to catch a train at 30th Street Station, dashing hurriedly along the south side of the building. A man who was sitting outdoors on a window ledge called to me as I passed on the sidewalk.
“Excuse me, Miss!” I looked squarely at him without saying anything, and when he caught sight of my face, he was taken aback.
“My goodness! I ain’t never seen a thick Chinese girl before! You are a big girl. You are thick!”
I had to laugh. He was so busy coughing up a backsided compliment that he never got around to panhandling me.
Pie magic at work, to be sure.
Ha! Way to keep ‘em off balance!