Omaha Red Sox wrote:I prefer to do that too acs, but you get some cruel looks sometimes when they're obviously looking for money to buy something other than food.
yeah...i do that when i can, but i'm rarely around homeless when i have extra food...one time i bought some boiled peanuts before a Tigers game and ate one and they were terrible, i was going to give them to a homeless guy but figured he might think i was playing a joke so i just threw them away
the other day some guy came up to me, looked like he had just gotten off work at a restaraunt, claiming his car had run out of gas and he had no money and couldnt get ahold of anyone. he had a cell-phone and claimed he wasnt a bum, so i gave him $3. he seemed legit, although i'm sure that's a good pan-handling scheme as well, so who knows
Yea that one happens all the time to me. More though when I lived in the south. I never give money any more well rarely at least.
One January there was a guy with a sign in a driving snowstorm, and he had duct tape wrapped around his fingers. I gave him the gloves my mom had just given me for Christmas, almost brand new. The next day he was back out there with the duct tape. I drove by again and asked him where the gloves were, and he just grinned at me.
I never carry cash anymore, though. I wonder how these people are going to make a living in five-ten years when cash really becomes rare. The trend is going away from paper money, and that's not likely to end soon. Are these guys going to have swipe machines so they can get their quarters for "coffee?"
Dan Lambskin wrote:one time i bought some boiled peanuts before a Tigers game...
boiled or broiled?
boiled. the street vendor i always buy my pre-Tigers peanuts from has a sign for them, and i told my buddy i was going to get them, and he said i shouldnt because they taste like peas...he's a dick though and usually i do the opposite of what he tells me, but just to be sure i asked him again, and he said "do you like peas?" (i do, but not at a ballgame...although i did get a bowl of corn-off-the-cobTM at US Cellular or wherever the Chi-Sox play and it was damn good). anyway, i confidently asked the vendor for some boiled peanuts, and he said "boiled?" in an "are you sure?" sort of way. i knew it was a bad sign when he sent another guy to a nearly parked van who returned with a styrofoam container, which when i opened it i was full of soggy peanuts and peanut-water...and that brings us full circle back to my previous post
Dan Lambskin wrote:one time i bought some boiled peanuts before a Tigers game...
boiled or broiled?
boiled. the street vendor i always buy my pre-Tigers peanuts from has a sign for them, and i told my buddy i was going to get them, and he said i shouldnt because they taste like peas...he's a dick though and usually i do the opposite of what he tells me, but just to be sure i asked him again, and he said "do you like peas?" (i do, but not at a ballgame...although i did get a bowl of corn-off-the-cobTM at US Cellular or wherever the Chi-Sox play and it was damn good). anyway, i confidently asked the vendor for some boiled peanuts, and he said "boiled?" in an "are you sure?" sort of way. i knew it was a bad sign when he sent another guy to a nearly parked van who returned with a styrofoam container, which when i opened it i was full of soggy peanuts and peanut-water...and that brings us full circle back to my previous post
Boiled Peanuts are super popular in South Carolina. Everyone down there flipping loved them. People knew how to make them too. They taste like crap if you ask me. Soggy and disgusting
Omaha Red Sox wrote:I prefer to do that too acs, but you get some cruel looks sometimes when they're obviously looking for money to buy something other than food.
yeah...i do that when i can, but i'm rarely around homeless when i have extra food...one time i bought some boiled peanuts before a Tigers game and ate one and they were terrible, i was going to give them to a homeless guy but figured he might think i was playing a joke so i just threw them away
the other day some guy came up to me, looked like he had just gotten off work at a restaraunt, claiming his car had run out of gas and he had no money and couldnt get ahold of anyone. he had a cell-phone and claimed he wasnt a bum, so i gave him $3. he seemed legit, although i'm sure that's a good pan-handling scheme as well, so who knows
I would bet anything the guy was a bum. I had someone come up to me while I was filling up at the gas station and he just started telling me this long story about how he needs money for gas and his girlfriend is waiting in the car, etc. And then for some reason he said "I'm not a beggar I'll even let you hold onto my iPhone". I was thinking what does your iPhone have to do with anything? He kept going on and on and saying I'm so embarassed etc. I finally gave the guy $3 mostly to get him to shut up. Afterwards I thought to myself "I just gave that lying bum $3".
I've had a few others come up to me with long-winded hard-luck stories since then too. I think the "not a bum just a guy in dire straits" routine is catching on. At 3 bucks a pop seems well worth it I guess.
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by acsguitar » Tue May 26, 2009 12:54 pm 
