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Panhandlers!
grdad45
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While getting gas yesterday, a middle aged man comes up asking me to help him get some food. There is a burger joint next door, so I said I would go there with him and feed him a burger meal. He acted like I had called him a raycist name, just asked for the money! NOPE! If you are hungry, I will feed you, but I ain't feeding your addictions! He wandered off hitting up everyone he saw.
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Mule
People that given them cash are suckers and enablers for more panhandlers moving in the area.
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I have worked for everything in life and won't give it away to those who are lazy or scammers.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
I read a while back where some of these folks are actually well to do. Hey make enough panhandling to live in. Ice places and drive nice cars... All tax free!
A few years back while living in Tucson AZ. : there was panhandlers on most every corner :
I will will never forget this one guy had a card-board sign : It Said " No lie - I want a beer " ! and people was giving him $$$ ???
My (now ex) Mother in law kept packages of ramen noodles in her car , when a panhandler came up to her , she gave them a pack ???
You would Not believe the 'homeless' that hang out @ the local hospital ?????
Thanks !!!
I Grew Old Too Fast (And Smart Too damn Slow !!!) !!! :?
Last sign I saw, said a beer in the bar was $6.00
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No, the sign didn't talk, the price was printed on it.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
It is the reason that I am always armed now, at least with pepper spray at the handy.
I had two bad experiences, one in Atlanta and one in South Carolina.
The one in Atlanta was very aggressive when I told him that I did not have any money, ( I had just watched him scratching lottery tickets in front of the store). I was convinced for a moment that this guy was going to get a mouthful of unleaded.
The other one in South Carolina, had a guy approach talking loud, I told him not to approach, he jams his hand in his pocket and pulls out his hand in the gun shape with finger pointed at me and acts like he is shooting me.
I keep pepper spray in each door of the truck as well as the console, and I always have a firearm that I can get too.
Have had other instances, I look for them now and can usually spot them.
I have offered at least two guys with signs a job on the spot and both refused without asking details.
There was a guy at a corner recently with a sign that simply said "Her lawyer won".
I have put gas in a couple of tanks before. The first one just asked for a few bucks in gas (not money). They also didn't look the typical part and did have out of state tags. I told him to pull up after I move my truck. I then topped it completely off. He tried to give me his watch as payment. I just told him I've been there before.
I was once stranded at around age 17 or 18 because I forgot my billfold and didn't realize it until time to fill up and I was 100+ miles away from home. I had stopped at this little town in S.E. Kansas that only had one station and the streets roll up early. It was near closing time, and my parents were on a cruise (I was doing their delivery route that week). I went in and explained the situation to the person at the store. I was doing a rough calculation in my head how much gas it would take to get me back home. Anyway, a local cop was in the store and overheard it. He asked me who I was delivering for. I told him. He asked me to describe him, what he normally drives. I told him and then he tells the clerk get my info and to let me fill up and if I didn't pay in a couple of weeks he'd cover it. Turns out, my dad usually goes through there after they close, and the cop is usually sitting at that store running radar so he knew him a little. I mailed a check when I got back home to cover the gas. Then, a few weeks later, I sent a dozen cookies with my dad and told him to give to the cop if he was there.
The irony to this story. It is about 3 miles from where I have hunted for the past 29 years (my wife's family land). I met my wife within a year or so of this happening.
I use to work construction some jobs in down town Dayton Oh whaile eating lunch countless hits on a buck for food
I did see so many people eating out of trash cans what ever they could find to a guy from a small town it was shocking
being young I would go ahead and give them a buck to buy the cheap wine WTH have at it
a few years back my wife went to shopping center ( mall ) with her sister younger girls were aproching people my sister in law explained to my wife they ask the women for gas money or food what ever to get home they offer up favors to the guys for the cash
no she would not tell me the location :shock:
Callen told him he would give him $2 if he could re-write his sign, and the guy agreed. He wrote "Who chitted my pants?".
Two Vegas cops saw them, thought they were harassing the guy, and came over to investigate. The cops started laughing along with the panhandler, and tossed a couple of dollars in his can. Other people on the street came over to see what was going on, started cracking up, and donated too. In about 20mins he had over $50.
I don't get it ....makes no sense. :?:
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
I also watched a guy get out of his car, remove a wheelchair from the trunk, put on an American Legion hat, and wheeled himself down to a corner.
Finally I had a black guy come up to me and asked if I would like to contribute to the United Negro Pizza Fund. I gave him five bucks....
Sometimes it is a good thing to keep all of your eggs in one basket.
When my wife and I take a road vacation, any cash we have, we divide 3 ways. My wife and I both take a third, and the vehicle has 1/3 hidden in it. That way we shouldn't lose it all.
I don't get it either. I thought Who was on 1st?