He paid for the camera with tips he had been saving up. He paid me in $1 bills, neatly folded in half and rubber banded together in stacks of 50 - $700 total!
Touching. With such a moving story, I'd be tempted to just GIVE him the camera. I WOULDN'T, of course......but I'd be tempted. Unnnnh, maybe not. He probably won that money in a rolling crap game. Did he seem a little 'shifty'? Thought so. You should have hit him up for an extra $50.
chas