> Today, I went shopping with a friend in downtown Chicago, and after we had finished a delicious lunch we walked out of the restaurant to see a hindu-esque man handing out hindu literature. Since I usually enjoy having chats with crazy people on the street, we approached him. He immediately handed me a 56 page treatise on incarnation and a similar book on Yoga to my friend. He pointed out important passages and pretty pictures of hare kryshnah. He went on to explain the basic ideas of his quasi-hindu religion including incarnation, vegetarianism (especially don't eat cow), kharma, etc. However, I began to feel a bit suspicious when he suddenly told me that I was a "beautiful person" out of the blue. At this, I shared a look with my friend, but then I went back to my earnest, interested look. Finally, we walked away with our new hindu books; he had also handed me "The Nectar of Instruction" and "Sri Isopanishad". As we were walking away, a man walking towards us looked at us and said "nice books" in a rude manner. We turned around to watch him approach the hindu guy, pat him on the back and say "nice work". Of course, we were absolutely seething to see this, so we ducked into a video store to discuss plans for some sort of revenge. . .
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> Having discarded the idea of purchasing hamburgers and eating them in front of him, we decided instead to approach him again and attack him with our inquiries into his so called religion, like so: "So, you say that two of the problems of this world are having to work and the fact that we will die. However, it is impossible to get food without working, so we would certainly die if we were to stop working." to which he would stutter a bit and then say "I do not understand" with his fake accent. And then he invited us to go with him to his temple to eat "good food"; he seemed to be on some sort of hindu road trip across the country.
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> There you are. Was I scammed out of my dollar?

What dollar?