and the restaurant was in a mall in a part of town where some of the monied folks had figured how to keep their money , or had never frittered it away , or had never had it tied into oil to begin with ( or since ) , and so i made good tips and though i was not rich i was handsome and i was becoming more aware of it the more attention i got from the lady patrons who liked the fact that i was not a skinny stick-boy with a button nose and that in fact i had a certain unprepossessing rough-hewn quality , a kind of modest gentle dopefulness underpinned with a heavy tide of unconscious animal magnetism .