Mine isn't slippery so much as empty, which makes it difficult to grab, fumbling, too slow to pay, the boy's in the same predicament, reaching for his wallet, he fumbles, "It's slippery" he tells me, It's the showdown of incompetent gunmen, slippery because it's so thin, we're all on a budget here and our good intentions are hampered only by our inability to realize them...
a miscellany of completely unrelated thoughts...