Grubby man at bus stop: What you reading there, the Bible?
Bookish man at bus stop: No, Charles Dickens.
Grubby man at bus stop: Oh, ‘Huckleberry Finn’?
Bookish man at bus stop: No… ‘A Christmas Carol.’
Grubby man at bus stop: Oh, yeah? Say, man, can I get 35 cents off you?

Lake Street Midtown Station
Overheard by A real Dickens fan probably would have given him something.

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