<--Funny.
Let me preface this by saying I am a very compassionate person for the most part and do my share (although I could always do more) of volunteerism and charities annually. But seriously if another person asks me about giving them money, that I earn five days a week at a job that I am thankful to have but would rather be doing something else I am not giving any mercy!
In Chicago, there are panhandlers EVERywhere and it doesn't help that its the SAME ones everyday, day in and day out at the same location with the same script. Like that lady who brings (read: uses) her grand kids downtown on Fridays to panhandle just enough money for food to feed the kids. Or the guy who stands in front of the Riverside CVS who asks for money for a beer. Yeah I respect the honesty but no one just goes out and buys my beer daily or food to feed myself.
Don't get me wrong there have been times when I have been really blessed and just handed over a couple dollars without the whole script, but you are not ALWAYS going to get that same treatment. Why don't you take the 25.00 you made in one day and get a job somewhere? They have so many home/work placement programs out there now, I just don't understand. Then to be so bold as to sit in the same place with the same script asking for the same 85 cents from the same folks everyday gets played.
I saw a question somewhere that asks whose more annoying a panhandler, dvd/cd pusher or a signature collector? At least the CD/DVD guy is trying to give you something for something, the signature collector is just annoying and its a part of their J-O-B......The panhandler would have to win 1st place.
What say you?
2 comments:
Panhandlers are the worst by far. Let's not go into the guy that is so likable that you've found yourself out of $5 before you realize it.
I'm with ya here. I remember a story about a begger with a cane being followed after his "tour of duty", limping a few blocks then tossing his cane into the trunk of a Cadillac then spryly jumping behind the wheel and taking off.
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