Owe him?
He still owes me fifty bucks.
“Can you spot me fifty? I’ve got a new book coming up that’s sure to be a hit. It’s a sequel. I call it The Old Man And The Sea Part 2. The old guy goes fishing again only this time a big white whale comes by looking for a bus stop. It can’t miss!”
Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline, kept the penny Hemingway threw on the ground when he returned from Europe after an affair with his next wife. In anger Hemingway said his wife had spent his last dollar on an extravagant pool in his absence. He said that this was his last penny.
It is reported that Pauline, who lived in the house until she died, would should the penny to guests and say that she was the only one of Hemingway’s wives that got a penny out of him.