I once had a dude ask me for change while walking down main street here, and he was holding a fucking mandolin.
Like, not an old cruddy one, a beautiful new one with intricate designs and an amp pickup module installed and shit that made it look like it cost thousands of dollars.
I mean holy shit dude if you're gonna ask for change at least play me a lively tune lol.
city I used to live near had a problem actually with people who where well off panhandling. even had so you had to have a licences to panhandle (which cost money to obtain) which made it so these well off panhandlers could call the cops on and run off the truly homeless ones.
one I know of would play bum all day long but once night hit, he'd go into a building and come back out in a tuxedo.
some woman didn't even try hiding it. but she wasn't playing like she needed the money she was lying and saying she was taking donations for a church. would run the homeless away from where she was trying to ask for money and when done would get in her really high dollar car and drive off.
That's fucked up. I see chicks like that around here too on the corners of major roads. They're all done up with makeup and have a Starbucks drink with them, but a sign saying "Hungry, need to feed my kids, anything will help."
The dude with the mandolin was wearing a snappy looking velvet blazer when he asked me, the one time lol.
i'm assuming these well off people somehow managed to bribe the local government to make that license thing happen ---
Cid- "looks like that overgrown lobster just got served!" Bartz-"with cheese biscuts AND mashed potatoes!"