By Sivan Pillai
Jimmy pocketed the wad of bills and dropped the wallet into the wayside dustbin after glancing at the driver’s license and cards.
Feeling hungry, he entered a restaurant named ‘Five Loaves’ across the road.
The food was simple but tasty. Some diners were well-dressed, others in rags, like the one whom Williams, (whose pocket he had picked), had shooed away.
Pay as you like, he was told at the counter. Or not pay at all, if he had no money!
With an image of five loaves and two fish in his mind, he handed over the wad of bills.
“Name?”
“Williams.”
Sorry to say this, Sivan, but this one left me cold. The reference to Five Loaves is, of course from Jesus feeding the multitudes with this small amount. Of course the meal was free. But some of the other connections I just can’t make. Call me dense, but this one would have to be explained to me! Probably my fault and not yours.
i dont understand the story, i catch a bible tag and a hungry thief, but i cant connect,
Aha! Not Jesus, but Marx — and not Groucho either.
“”From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
I liked it, but I had to read it twice to catch the joke as well.