Cool! I'm glad I've started an interesting discussion with this question.
It will be very interesting if he does come in again, like Andrew said, than I would know for sure what he's trying to do.
I didn't believe his story about his mom. Just the fact that he said "if you don't believe me, you can check," planted a huge seed of doubt in me.
Quote:
On the exit ramp, a man with some kind of car part in his hand was hitting up all the cars that pulled up to the intersection. He said his car broke down and he only needed a few more dollars to buy the part to fix it. Well I gave him my last 3 bucks and drove on to school.
The following Saturday, I saw the same guy out there doing the same thing. It must have worked well for him.
|
Yeah, in Reno a group of guys would use the same dog to get sympathy money. A friend of mine said at an intersection she saw a homeless man with a dog, begging for money, and she gave him some. Then the next day, there was a
different man, but with the same dog! I bet that dog got them a lot more money than if they were just alone.
Quote:
|
Guy walks in front of a Wal-mart parody store with a "help wanted" sign posted. A panhandler stands right beside the sign, so the guy asks him why he doesn't just get a job. The panhandler responds that he wouldn't be able to take such a sharp cut in his pay.
|
Yep, heard this too. I knew a guy who offered to give a homeless man some work for $10 an hour, and he said no because he earned more by panhandling.