. "Visited FSE during a break from jury duty. A panhandler approached with, \"Can you help out a one-eyed veteran?\" Naturally, I glanced at his eyes. One was squinted shut. He might have been missing an eye or he could have krazy-glued it. \"Here's my eye,\" he said with a grin, holding out a glass eye in the palm of his hand. I couldn't help but laugh. Gave him a couple bucks.\n\nAlong came another veteran in a wheelchair rigged with a donation bucket. \"I keep telling him not to take his eye out, but he won't listen. It creeps people out. How would you like it if I took my leg off?\" I resisted the impulse to look at his legs. A couple bucks went in his bucket.\n\nMy friends in LA complain about aggressive panhandlers. At FSE the panhandlers are comedians.\n\nGood thing it was only a short break. Visiting FSE can get expensive."^^ . "5"^^ . "7"^^ . "3"^^ . "9"^^ . . . "2010-11-24T00:00:00"^^ .