• This is part 2 of an odd October morning last year. To read part 1, scroll down on the home page of LOLnyc....So I take the subway to my stop in lower midtown Manhattan and decide to grab a coffee before I head into my office. While in the coffee shop, There's a black guy standing by the register. He was a guy that appeared to be on "some tough luck" or just "a filthy bum," however you wanna look at it. For being a filthy bum, he was rather eloquent. Our conversation goes like this...

• Filthy Bum: Hey man, who do you think is better qualified to lead our country, John McCain or Barack Obama?

• Me: Um, Probably Obama

• Filthy Bum: Yeah Me too, he seems like he knows whats goin on, ya know, like on the streets more than McCain, ya know?

• Me: Exactly

• Filthy Bum: Hey Man, you got a $1.75, I'm tryin to catch a train

• Me: What train? We're in a coffee shop?

• Filthy Bum: hahaha

• Me: Ok, I'll give you a dollar and whatever change I get from my coffee

• Filthy Bum: uh ok yeah

• Me: (hands him a dollar bill and 40 cents) look you only need 55...I mean 40...um, 35 cents now

• Filthy Bum: Hey man, white people always be taking care of the black man, nah mean?

• Me: I take care of any man, black, white, Puerto Rican, or Asain and...

• Filthy Bum: Haha YEAH YEAH Man! Hey you ever see the movie Transformers?

• Me: Um, yeah

• Filthy Bum: This reminds me of when Optimus Prime was like (in his best Optimus Prime voice) "Our planet was a great empire, like peaceful and shit, until we were betrayed by Megatron and he fucked us over and shit"

• Me: Why does right now remind you of that?

• Filthy Bum: (looks at me with blank face)

• Me: Hey man, I'm goin down this street, but keep keep watching movies man, keep watching movies