Leeds has fallen on hard times. His unemployment checks ran out two weeks ago, so now he figures he’ll probably have to get a job. He still sleeps in until noon, then goes to Stick’s Pool Hall until about four o’clock. After that he goes around looking for work. Not the best time to prospect for work.

While applying for a job at Taco Bell, Leeds is filling out the application when he decides he can get an "advance" on his pay. He puts a ball point pen in his pocket and says to the clerk, "Gimme all the money."

The clerk opens the cash register and hands over the money. With $40 in his hands, Leeds decides to treat himself to a late lunch. "Gimme a chalupa, to go," he says to the clerk.

While he’s waiting for his chalupa, Leeds looks over his application form to see if he’s missed anything. Under references he lists the name of one of his father’s brothers. In most families that’s probably okay, but in this particular case, Uncle Stash is serving time in the state penitentiary for burglary.

"Where’s my chalupa?" Leeds yells out to the clerk.

"It’ll be ready in a minute — is this to-go?" asks the clerk.

It’s at this very moment that Leeds, holding the Taco Bell staff at the point of a retractable pen, realizes that four uniformed cops are pointing guns at him. It takes Leeds something like a nano-second to decide to throw up his hands and surrender.

Even if Leeds had left Taco Bell promptly after the robbery, there’d still have been the application form he left behind. By the way, the law says it’s still armed robbery, even if the weapon is a concealed ball point pen. If the victim "thinks" it’s a dangerous weapon, then the crime is armed robbery.

Now Leeds has a chance to learn a new skill—making auto license plates.