Poll of the Day > Getting hit up by beggars more and more these days.

Topic List
Page List: 1
GrimCyclone
09/13/17 5:25:24 PM
#1:


This one was a large women crying asking for a few dollars in the Walmart parking lot. Gave what I had. She kinda had me in a spot where I couldn't say no. I don't mind helping people out, but sometimes I wonder if I am helping them or hurting them. I guess you're not supposed to question that unless it's obvious they are on drugs.

You guys getting hit up more too or just me? I get it at gas stations a lot.
---
"When he raises himself up, the mighty fear; Because of the crashing they are bewildered." http://i.imgur.com/EmR62Z5.jpg
... Copied to Clipboard!
SmokeMassTree
09/13/17 5:40:46 PM
#2:


No

I'd carry around cards for the local temp agency if I was
---
A.K. 2/14/10 T.C.P.
Victorious Champion of the 1st Annual POTd Hunger Games and the POTd Battle Royale Season 3
... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus
09/13/17 5:40:47 PM
#3:


Thanks a lot, Trump!
---
(\/)(\/)|-|
In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
... Copied to Clipboard!
mooreandrew58
09/13/17 5:56:27 PM
#4:


GrimCyclone posted...
This one was a large women crying asking for a few dollars in the Walmart parking lot. Gave what I had. She kinda had me in a spot where I couldn't say no. I don't mind helping people out, but sometimes I wonder if I am helping them or hurting them. I guess you're not supposed to question that unless it's obvious they are on drugs.

You guys getting hit up more too or just me? I get it at gas stations a lot.


my friend who drinks (or did he claims he quit) would give money to homeless who where known alcoholics knowing damn well what they where going to spend it on. and said friend used to be homeless himself.
---
Cid- "looks like that overgrown lobster just got served!" Bartz-"with cheese biscuts AND mashed potatoes!"
... Copied to Clipboard!
GrimCyclone
09/13/17 6:12:21 PM
#5:


My Dad let a guy work for him and help out around the house at our farm when I would visit him and my brothers. 10 years later I asked him whatever happened to that guy and he didn't know what I was talking about. My brothers remember it but just remember him being there and leaving. One of my brothers thought it was a friend of a relative that my stepmom was helping.

I remember my Dad being accusatory of him making sure he wasn't going to do drugs or anything bad and the guy acting all apologetic as if he wasn't going to do anything. I remember the guy crying for no reason in the middle of playing Monopoly with my brothers and I. I remember him always talking about issues with the world. It was all kinda awkward and it really got to me my Dad couldn't remember it.

I wonder whatever happened to him.
---
"When he raises himself up, the mighty fear; Because of the crashing they are bewildered." http://i.imgur.com/EmR62Z5.jpg
... Copied to Clipboard!
Action53
09/13/17 6:26:51 PM
#6:


I don't give money to them but if we're near a store or restaurant I'll offer to buy them something to eat. Usually they just get mad and decline
---
Plsbemeantome.sarahah.com
... Copied to Clipboard!
JixHedgehog
09/13/17 6:57:19 PM
#7:


Eh, its the same (ie - 3/4 times I get gas, the usual guy on the wheelchair on the freeway onramp and the occasional guy downtown)
---
Not changing my sig until Nintendo announces the Switch XL 1/12/2017
... Copied to Clipboard!
mooreandrew58
09/13/17 7:01:26 PM
#8:


I think the worst case i've had outside a gas station was a dude standing their with a oxygen tank hooked up and breathing through it trying to bum a smoke off me.
---
Cid- "looks like that overgrown lobster just got served!" Bartz-"with cheese biscuts AND mashed potatoes!"
... Copied to Clipboard!
Cruddy_horse
09/13/17 7:55:02 PM
#9:


There's some homeless guy at this diner place up in North Carolina that hides out underneath a tree in the parking lot at night (Which due to his skin color and clothes it's impossible to see him) and randomly accosts people asking them for money, don't think he's mugged someone yet but it's freaky.
---
equo ne credite!
... Copied to Clipboard!
MoreRpgs
09/13/17 8:32:52 PM
#10:


They're everywhere
... Copied to Clipboard!
Firewood18
09/13/17 9:40:13 PM
#11:


The ones that walk up to you at gas stations and parking lots annoy me. I just tell them flatly that I don't talk to grifters.
---
Nobody is perfect. Well, one guy was but we killed him.
... Copied to Clipboard!
SilverClock
09/13/17 10:03:49 PM
#12:


I think one time this one guy with two kids was incredibly gracious for just a box of cereal so I gave him $10. There's a guy who frequents a certain intersection and I gave him what was left of some Pringles. There was a guy with two kids and I paid for a tank of gas. Except he kept filling it beyond where it clicks off. Ever since I don't give out money anymore. Only food, if I have any on me. Another perk to me working night shift now is I never see those people anymore.
---
3DS FC: 5327-2159-0942 IGN: Ryan
... Copied to Clipboard!
DocDelicious
09/14/17 1:00:00 AM
#13:


Every time I go to the Sheetz around the corner from my house. Not an exaggeration either...it's every time. Usually the same 4 or 5 people with a couple randoms thrown in.
Doesn't help that there's a prison down the street so I'll frequently see people who were just released begging for money or rides.

I work third shift and, no, guy who just got out of prison, I will not give you a ride somewhere at 4am.
---
Let strength be granted so the world might be mended.
bEcoMe aS gODs
... Copied to Clipboard!
JixHedgehog
09/14/17 1:24:44 AM
#14:


Come to think of it I've had more people ask me for a smoke than spare change lately

Its easier to shoot them down and not lie about it since I dont smoke
---
Not changing my sig until Nintendo announces the Switch XL 1/12/2017
... Copied to Clipboard!
mooreandrew58
09/14/17 2:30:24 AM
#15:


DocDelicious posted...
Every time I go to the Sheetz around the corner from my house. Not an exaggeration either...it's every time. Usually the same 4 or 5 people with a couple randoms thrown in.
Doesn't help that there's a prison down the street so I'll frequently see people who were just released begging for money or rides.

I work third shift and, no, guy who just got out of prison, I will not give you a ride somewhere at 4am.


be careful had a friend who basically got forced to give a dude a ride at gun point in a similar situation. doubt the guy was freshly out of prison cause well he did have a gun, but just saying.
---
Cid- "looks like that overgrown lobster just got served!" Bartz-"with cheese biscuts AND mashed potatoes!"
... Copied to Clipboard!
Alex1976
09/14/17 9:49:22 AM
#16:


I have the occasional one walk up to me and attempt to beg money off me - I act like I didn't hear anything and don't respond.

The rest of the time, I sometimes see one near an overpass or at the exit of some parking lots - I do my best to not stare at them.
---
When ancient man screamed and beat on the ground with sticks, they called it WITCHCRAFT.
When modern man does the same thing, they call it GOLF.
... Copied to Clipboard!
mirage_004
09/14/17 10:11:37 AM
#17:


Yeah, I have a seven-block commute from the train station to my job. It's been pretty bad, particularly over the past couple of months.

It's annoying, but somewhat flattering at the same time (makes me feel rich), lol.
---
Need a new signature here.
... Copied to Clipboard!
wwinterj25
09/14/17 10:13:09 AM
#18:


GrimCyclone posted...
You guys getting hit up more too or just me?


No more than I normally do. I never give them money though.
---
One who knows nothing can understand nothing.
http://psnprofiles.com/wwinterj - http://i.imgur.com/kDysIcd.gif
... Copied to Clipboard!
ArvTheGreat
09/14/17 10:24:07 AM
#19:


Dammit if you keep giving her tree fiddy she's going to think you have more
---
Things are about to get arvified
... Copied to Clipboard!
ArvTheGreat
09/14/17 10:25:19 AM
#20:


One older woman tried to pan handle arv she's like she has no toes does arv wanna see arv told her no she looked offended and still showed arv
---
Things are about to get arvified
... Copied to Clipboard!
TheCyborgNinja
09/14/17 10:30:15 AM
#21:


When I used to go to this store in an area full of heroin addicts, I'd just dress like somebody that would knock your teeth down your throat before parting with a dollar. It worked. I'd usually put on a scowl and any time I made eye contact with an approaching bum they'd look away and not say a word.

I didn't hate them, I just got tired of having a pointless conversation that ended with me awkwardly refusing to give them anything. If ever I went down there looking normal though, the shakedown would occur... I was only ever mean to one guy, because he walked up running his mouth and I just said "no" to his story after the first incomplete segment and he got mad. The end result was him walking away having a childlike tantrum...
---
"message parlor" ? do you mean the post office ? - SlayerX888
... Copied to Clipboard!
mooreandrew58
09/14/17 5:12:33 PM
#22:


I remember once I did feel bad, dude asked me for money and me and friends said we didn't have any spare money we got about half a block down the road and this dude was killing it on a saxophone. and his case was open and had spare change tossed in it, and we emptied our pockets of all the spare change we had then turned and saw the first dude glaring at us... best I could come up with was "well hes working for it, sorry"
---
Cid- "looks like that overgrown lobster just got served!" Bartz-"with cheese biscuts AND mashed potatoes!"
... Copied to Clipboard!
BeerOnTap
09/14/17 5:58:50 PM
#23:


I literally just ignore them. Seriously. I don't look at them, I don't acknowledge them, I don't say a word. I just keep walking.
Try it sometime.
... Copied to Clipboard!
Troll_Police_
09/15/17 10:02:23 AM
#24:


SmokeMassTree posted...
I'd carry around cards for the local temp agency if I was


ok, i am going to go and do this today
---
Is this going to be one of those times when you pretend not to have a plan until the last moment? And then turn out to really not have one?
... Copied to Clipboard!
GrimCyclone
09/15/17 11:25:25 AM
#25:


Troll_Police_ posted...
SmokeMassTree posted...
I'd carry around cards for the local temp agency if I was


ok, i am going to go and do this today

Please be careful, the one around the laundromat where I live gets violent went the clean up man tells him to get a job. He might do some of that 1970's Dolomite king fu on your ass.
---
"When he raises himself up, the mighty fear; Because of the crashing they are bewildered." http://i.imgur.com/EmR62Z5.jpg
... Copied to Clipboard!
Jiggy101011
09/15/17 12:18:00 PM
#26:


I just say "sorry I don't keep cash on me" because 99% of the time it's true.
---
Gamertag: F1RE v2 PSN ID: F1REx
Man got me a 9 and she sexy.
... Copied to Clipboard!
Topic List
Page List: 1