Can you spare a quarter? (1 Viewer)

[Thorin]

About four years ago a fella approached me and asked for money while I was gassing up my car. I simply and flatly told him no and he got belligerent and threatened to kick my arse, blah, blah, blah...

I doused him with gas and asked him if he had a light.

Back in the 90's me and a group of troops were going to a tour of the FBI building. Somehow I got stuck with driving duty (which really sucks because I hated driving in DC) We stopped at one intersection and a panhandler starts to head towards our van with a squeegee and water bottle.

I hit the windshield washers.

I hate panhandlers. I hate them because there are some people out there that are really in need and are trying to do something to get their lives back on track. They distract us from those people. The kinds of people most of us would want to help...

Man, that's a lotta hatin'. Personally, I try to keep a damper on that.

One night on Dec. 23 about 16 years ago I was downtown sitting in my car with a friend, uh, talking. A pitiful waif of a guy came up to my car and went into a song and dance "Merry Christmas, I'm so hungry, could you..." I dumped about 3 or 5 bucks in tip change (I was a BBQ delivery driver when I was in school) into his hand, and he was thankful. Then he promptly did an about face and trudged into the bar that we were about to go into. I got irritated, followed him into the bar, and took the beer away from him. I poured it out and bid him a good night. I later adopted the "I'll buy you some food approach" too.

 

[Complex Kid]

I posted this in another thread a while back. There is one guy here that has given me and my friend the same exact story 4 times in the last year and a half! He comes walking up and says hey you guy's know where Jennings, LA is? And we are like yea. So he says he's from there and has his whole family parked in the car about a mile away and they are out of gas and can we spare a few bucks for him to get them home. The first time neither of us had our wallets so we said sorry bro no money. 2nd time we where coming out of the casino and said we lost all our money (my buddy didn't remember him but I reminded him and he was like oh yea and we had a good laugh). The third time we called him on his story and the 4th time when he came walking towards us we where like "Let me guess your from Jennings right?" That really confused him. Good times.

 

[Dougd]

Our neighborhood homeless man lives in public housing, gets disability, and has a wallet so full of bills he can't fold it in half.

I don't give money to people on the street. I give money to organizations. The heck with lazy leeches.

 

[Legion of Dome]

I saw a guy begging with a sign in my town today...He looked like a college student with a brand new backpack and some sweet adidas.

The fake gutter punks in the quarter always get on my nerves. I picture them sitting on a trust fund but begging because they think it's cool.

I never give to beggers. I remain firm but don't see the need to be aggressive toward them.

 

[Saint LesPaul]

In 2004 (i think) my wife and I went to Dallas for a few days, during which time the Saints were playing, so I convinced her to go with me to the game (she's not a huge football fan). We were on the way to the game and I stopped at a gas station for some brews and when I came out there was this dude with a Cowboys hat making a bee-line straight toward me. He hit me up for 5 bucks and hassled me all the way back to the car...I finally relented and just gave him 5 bucks so he would leave us alone (and I did feel a bit sorry for him). He looked at me with my five in hand and said "Hey, I'm from NO, man... let me buy that jersey (#83 Stallworth blk) from you for 5 bucks." As I drove off he was cussing me for not taking that stellar deal of my 5 bucks in return for the jersey off my back... as I was headed to the game. Unreal... that's the last time I've handed cash to someone on the street.

 

[St. Widge]

About four years ago a fella approached me and asked for money while I was gassing up my car. I simply and flatly told him no and he got belligerent and threatened to kick my arse, blah, blah, blah...

I doused him with gas and asked him if he had a light.

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I understand your frustration Rick, but from a legal point of view, I would not do anything like the above in the future. You're lucky you weren't arrested and charged with assualt or assult with a deadly weapon.