[Jennihul]

Just say "take a walk, bud.." If he persists, stand up, lean forward, mean face and repeat yourself, just louder.

You don't have to be rude but you need to get them out of your airspace.

People, whether truly desperate or not, have no business demanding anything from you or trying to guilt you into supporting them.

There is nothing wrong with giving spare change to less fortunate people but that borders on assault. It would be if he refused to leave.

My friends and I always ran into the same guy at Grand Central. Backpack and kind of college grubby. He would give some cok and bull story about losing his train ticket, wanting to visit his mom in Darien...blah blah...We'd be like: dude you hit us up every weekend, get lost.

At the very least, these clever losers could earn a living as actors.

Jennifer