Darxus

3/1/10 04:47 pm

"Do you have some change so I can eat something?"
"No."
"I have a fin."

beowabbit
3/1/10 10:13 pm (UTC)

I thought I remembered that that was a slang term for money, and Wiktionary confirms it:

Noun
fin (plural fins)
9. (US, slang) A five-dollar bill.

So my guess would be s/he was trying to change a 5 so s/he could use the vending machines.
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  3/1/10 10:15 pm (UTC)
  
  We were in the Kendal Square food court.
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woodwardiocom
3/2/10 01:46 am (UTC)

Assuming he's not using the slang for money, I would assume he was playing up some sort of birth defect for sympathy.
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