bright moonEarlier, I met a old blind man who stopped me with "Hello there, are you busy? Could you get two ice-creams and bring them here?" Which I did. One was for me apparently as he said "it's rude to eat by oneself". I tried engaging him in conversation a little but he just kept telling me he was blind (not sure why but he felt it was important to repeat it, which is why I added it to the story) so we just sat eating our ice-creams.
He then didn't say another word until I asked if he would like anything else or if I could do anything to help.
At which point he said he'd repay me with some advice, "not that young ones ever listen to advice but he may as well tell me as not". Very quietly he said "Invest everything you have into a circus or better still open your own one....
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