Bum
Not many of my strip ideas have more than a loose association with what happens in my life, but this exact encounter happened to me. The key difference is I actually had recently quit smoking, and when the guy forgot about our conversation a day later, I was equally puzzled, amused, and vaguely insulted. I have a pretty forgettable face and personality, but a kind of lower-middle-class superiority dictated to me that anyone who begs me for money or goods should recognize until the end of their days what a saint I was to give it to them. Or at least remember the really good excuse I had in not giving them a damn thing.
