> What the freak is a gypsy anyway? Never really understood where they come from and who they are. Woody Allen would sometimes have a funny flash in one of his movies of a family of gypsies hiding in a bank vault.
Modern gypsies do exist. They’re basically members of families who are professional grifters that operate plumbing, roofing, paving, etc...companies that take your money and don’t do the work at all or provide piss poor quality work and overbill the crap out of you for it. Some also have psychic / tarot card reading establishments set up too. Many of these families were originally from Romania and look like Hispanics so they often set up fake identies in very common Hispanic names like George Ortega, Juan Garza or Jose Rodriguez. I have worked on some that have lighter skin that used very common names like Miller and Williams.
Avoid them like the plague.
Those are Irish Travelers. They specialize in just what you said. I recall one stopping by my parents place while I was there.
He asked about paving their long driveway. I knew who he was immediately.
They typically drive brand new high end pickups and are also typically handsome. Yet they did come from Ireland and are not genetically related to the Roma.
But there are and have been, for a millennia, Spanish gypsies. They originated the Flamenco dance.
Miller and Mitchell were the names they used in my area.
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