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Mike the Moocher was a notorious moocher. You have to mooch a lot to earn the nick name Mike the Moocher. And I mean, a LOT.

He would take turns mooching from each of his various friends. He’d show up at a friend’s house and mooched a lot of cigarettes and food and beer. Then when the friend started to get annoyed, he’d move on to another friend. He never paid rent or helped with dishes. He just mooched and mooched.

Mike the Moocher showed up at Jamal’s house and mooched a lot of the leftovers from a garage sale. He showed up at John’s house and mooched his lawn mower. Then he moved on to Tiffany’s where he mooched a lot of gardening supplies. He showed up at Steve’s house and mooched a lot of his DVDs.

Each of them became frustrated with Mike’s mooching because he never returned any of things he mooched. So they stopped returning his calls and he stopped calling.

Time went on and they all forgot their frustration with Mike the Moocher. But one day, there was a picture in the newspaper that featured a pile of junk as tall as a silo filling an old abandoned parking lot. At the top of the heap was a lawn mower. Also in the pile were DVDs, gardening supplies, an El Camino, a gas can, and many other odds and ends.

It wasn’t long before folks in town figured out that Mike the Moocher had discarded all those many items he never returned and that was where the huge pile came from. Mike the Moocher mooched A LOT!

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2011-08-01