How do you handle street people asking for money?
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I will actually take the extra 5 minutes to get where I am going and go a full block around them if I see a large group congregating ahead of me.
Hey a good idea is still a good idea.
ROGER4314
Been Called "Flash" Since I Was A Kid!
Working in the Texas Prison System taught me a lot about players and being played. You are a "Mark" and if you give them something, they brag about clipping you.
From TDCJ training: "It is the Offenders JOB to play you and they have plenty of time to plan it out."
Pan handlers are no different.
Just say NO!
Flash
From TDCJ training: "It is the Offenders JOB to play you and they have plenty of time to plan it out."
Pan handlers are no different.
Just say NO!
Flash
I don't get approached often, my wife says it's because I look pretty pissed all the time. Ironically, I'm about as laid back, friendly and easy going as a man can be. On the few occasions street people have asked for money, I just say "nah, I work to hard to give it away" and keep moving.
I worked for a community services program in Virginia for a couple of years during college, mostly teaching life skills to developmentally delayed adults but also did a stint at a homeless rehabilitation program. The goal was to identify a homeless person that appeared to be a good candidate for reintegration and eventually move them into an apartment. The steps were get them physically clean, into an efficiency apartment, chemically clean, coach life skills, obtain p/t work, coach budgeting and, finally, transition to their own apartment. The place had two apartments for this program and both were always occupied. The problem was most people didn't make it past the chemically clean stage- they'd get a shower, haircut, clean clothes and shoes, a few hot meals, spend a couple of nights in the apartment and then back on to the street.
There were 87 people processed into the program; two made it through to completion. One took the $220 security deposit that was funded to his checking account and disappeared. The other made it through the first month on his own but didn't pay rent the second month and had left by the time the landlord went to post the "pay or quit" notice on his door.
So, not a lot of sympathy from me. I'll give them my jacket or a blanket from my truck on a cold day, or a couple of pairs of clean socks but not a dime in cash.
I worked for a community services program in Virginia for a couple of years during college, mostly teaching life skills to developmentally delayed adults but also did a stint at a homeless rehabilitation program. The goal was to identify a homeless person that appeared to be a good candidate for reintegration and eventually move them into an apartment. The steps were get them physically clean, into an efficiency apartment, chemically clean, coach life skills, obtain p/t work, coach budgeting and, finally, transition to their own apartment. The place had two apartments for this program and both were always occupied. The problem was most people didn't make it past the chemically clean stage- they'd get a shower, haircut, clean clothes and shoes, a few hot meals, spend a couple of nights in the apartment and then back on to the street.
There were 87 people processed into the program; two made it through to completion. One took the $220 security deposit that was funded to his checking account and disappeared. The other made it through the first month on his own but didn't pay rent the second month and had left by the time the landlord went to post the "pay or quit" notice on his door.
So, not a lot of sympathy from me. I'll give them my jacket or a blanket from my truck on a cold day, or a couple of pairs of clean socks but not a dime in cash.
C.D.,
I too have quite a bit of experience with the so-called homeless.
With rare exception (me, being one) they like/prefer their status as horrific as that sounds.......
Being a victim has many rewards, none of which I'm willing to fund.
"Hey man, can you help"?
NO!
I too have quite a bit of experience with the so-called homeless.
With rare exception (me, being one) they like/prefer their status as horrific as that sounds.......
Being a victim has many rewards, none of which I'm willing to fund.
"Hey man, can you help"?
NO!
Here's a new twist: there I was, delivering food in the ghetto as it happens, address is a "gentlemen's club", I pull in at the front door when suddenly a deranged hobo starts beating on my car and yelling at me incoherently. Spittle flying from his hobo-bearded ferret face, the works. Out comes the Walther, pointed straight at his wino nose. His yellowish eyes grow big and he runs off. Into the strip club.
I text the customer that I'm right outside with her food but there's a crazed hobo and I ain't getting out of my car.
Hobo reappears dragging a thug with him, and shouting excitedly: there he is, that's him!
I roll down the passenger window, wave the thug over, tell him what's up and he informs me that the crazed hobo is their parking valet. Seriously!? Well you can take the food inside then. It's ok, he says, you can bring it in. Nah man, I'm good, you take it, I ain't coming out of my car. He's like, okay, no worries, but did you really point a gun at him? - Maybe? Have a good one, byeeeee.
I looked the place up on Yelp and Google, and apparently that's their regular parking lot attendant/valet and he's know for this kind of behavior. Maybe give him at least a shave, a bath, a haircut, a yellow vest and possibly a damn Tic-Tac?
I text the customer that I'm right outside with her food but there's a crazed hobo and I ain't getting out of my car.
Hobo reappears dragging a thug with him, and shouting excitedly: there he is, that's him!
I roll down the passenger window, wave the thug over, tell him what's up and he informs me that the crazed hobo is their parking valet. Seriously!? Well you can take the food inside then. It's ok, he says, you can bring it in. Nah man, I'm good, you take it, I ain't coming out of my car. He's like, okay, no worries, but did you really point a gun at him? - Maybe? Have a good one, byeeeee.
I looked the place up on Yelp and Google, and apparently that's their regular parking lot attendant/valet and he's know for this kind of behavior. Maybe give him at least a shave, a bath, a haircut, a yellow vest and possibly a damn Tic-Tac?
Because apparently my resume writing skills are state of the art ca. the mid 1990s which incidentally was the last time I needed one and since the company I've been working for these last 7 years shut down I find myself in search of gainful employment, as a CompTIA A+ certified desktop support technician, and in the meantime I'm doing some UberEats driving.
I thought it was an urban legend about fancily dressed people in fancy SUVs dropping of panhandlers in prime begging locations, but today I actually saw it myself. It was like grand central for panhandlers! One SUV after another stopped at that one corner downtown, between a McD and a parking lot, dropped off a bunch of hobos and left. Like, half a dozen vehicle in the short time it took me to park my car, pay for parking, and figure out which direction Pacific Ave was.
Correlation to that, JFC, downtown smells like sewage, piss, shit and hobo.
Correlation to that, JFC, downtown smells like sewage, piss, shit and hobo.
TRVTH
I try to help them out since we got weak and quit tithing a few years back. Swear that tithing thing works. We donate to TV preachers now. I keep aiming to send my radio Preacher Robert Jeffress 20 bucks but the plumber raped us pretty bad on a new water heater yesterday. So it might be a while yet. The Gold Visor Card got dented up bad. Plumbers ain’t nice. lol
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