Homeless Man
Working at University Bookstore Requests to Keep Change
Student Only
Wanted a Blue Book and Mascot Fleece
University of Texas Linguistics major Ronald Morgan was taken aback when Bookstore employee and homeless drifter David Colborn asked if he could spare the change he was handing Morgan for his $21.48 purchase on Tuesday.
"I was totally
thrown for a loop,” stated Morgan as he pondered over an official
UT paper football and field goal package. “All I was trying to do
was purchase this blue book and burnt Orange sweatshirt when this guy
just tries to pocket my change. I really just didn’t know what to
say. I was already running late for my J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth
class, and he didn’t even give me a receipt or anything.”
Colborn,
who has lived on the corner of Guadalupe and 24th street for over a year,
stated that he often asks preoccupied college students if they could spare
any change as he checks them out at the front counter. “I look at
it as having two jobs,” said Colborn. “While on the one hand
the Bookstore is giving me $6.15 an hour and a sweet dental package.