like loose change

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>easily picked up?  the walking style idea doesn't make sense to me.
>
>At 03:35 AM 10/11/2004, you wrote:
>> From http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/nyregion/10montclair.html:
>>
>>"People think of Montclair as a picture-perfect, 'Brady Bunch'-type
>>setting," said Ricky Moore, a 42-year-old street cleaner, who was
>>sweeping up cigarette butts from the sidewalks of the town's grittier
>>side on Saturday. "But this neighborhood is ghetto. You got
>>14-year-old girls walking around here in little miniskirts like loose
>>change."
>>
>>I'm reading it as "walking around in little miniskirts like it's
>>nothing."

Whatever he's trying to say, he isn't saying it very well IMHO. My
speculation is that he's trying to say there are a lot of them or they're
all over the place or they're routine (I would say "like fleas on a dog"
maybe).

But maybe I'm wrong again.

-- Doug Wilson