Heard on The Judges: _dry-beg_ "a kind of con game"

[Wilson Gray]

Judge Greg and his bailiff, Doyle, acted this one out. Essentially,
the idea is to get free money by letting some chump with feelings for
you know that you need a large amount of money, then conning him/her
into "forcing" the money on you, as you protest all the while that you
couldn't *possibly* take the money and allow the mark to be
inconvenienced by your trivial needs.

The plaintiff - an older woman thus suckered by her dekkid-younger
"boyfriend" - for whom they had acted out the game commented that she
had no idea that it was so common that it had a name.

There's a head-game version of this in which you adamantly refuse to
allow someone to explain himself - "Hey, it's okay, Jon. You don't
need to explain. I understand completely" - that I personally have
used to reduce grown men literally to tears of frustration.
Apparently, when people try to explain themselves to you, they don't
just *want* to. They *need* to.

Weird.

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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