Stopped in at Schlotzsky’s at Westheimer and Montrose (when will they get wireless???) for some lunch yesterday. I usually park on the back side to avoid the panhandlers, but this
time I parked in front, and am duly approached as I exit my vehicle by a guy asking if I can spare some change, “’cause I’m really hungry.” I say, “No, but I
can buy you a sandwich. Come on in.” He follows me in, says he wants beef, so I buy him a roast beef combo (he asks for it to go), and, for me, my standard #1 combo. I tell him that the combo includes the drink and some chips. We get our drinks and our chips,
and as I’m sitting down, I see him go back to the area where the prepared salads are, look around, then start to snag one. As I get up to tell him that that’s
not included, the manager chases him off. After he leaves, I apologize to the manager, but he says no problem…that guy pesters customers all the time, and
does that quite a bit.