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Well as I was pumping gas earlier a guy approached me askin for money, the typical im hungry and need food thing. Well im a sucker for donating money and for trying to help others, I would want somebody to help me if I needed it and was in that situation. Well it just so happened I had like a dollar and some change in my pocket. So I said yea here ya go and handed him the money.turns out ehen youre broke homeless and starving a dollar and change isnt good enough. The guy turns around and is like come on man I need more then this..... I know you can do better......I dont know what caused it but something about that just really pissed me off so I told him you know what youre right, I can do better. So I asked for my money back and put it back in my pocket then proceeded to tell him I could've done nothing at all. And to go find someone else who has better money.well that pissed him off and then he decided to talk some trash then left with nothing rather than a little bit of something.im not rich but I get by and if somebody was to hand me a free dollar I wouldnt decline it. Especially if im hungry broke amd homeless, the nerve of some people

I usually name a few places that are hiring. They hate that.

I've offered several of them tax paying jobs at my shop. It's ended every discussion!

I have on two occasion handed over a few bucks in a similar situation. Both times the person walked into the store and came out with beer. Never again. I stopped for gas in Slidell not long ago and a woman with kids asked me for some money for gas so she could take one of the kids to the doctor. I told her to pull up to the pump and I would pump enough gas to get her there, but she drove off. These folks have ruined it for someone who may need help.

My aunt saw a guy on the side of the road with the "will work for food" sign, she turned in to McDonald's and bought like 10 $1 burgers and gave them to him. When she drove off she saw him throw them on the street!!!! That cured her from being generous!

shoulda sprayed him with the gas pump! by accident of course;)

I had a helper that every opening weekend of trawling season would get a little gallon bucket and ride down the bayou. he would stop and ask everybody for a little mess of shrimp to take his kids fishing (they were in the truck). He told me it would take him about an hour or 2 and he would have a full 60 quart ice chest of shrimp because everyone would just fill his bucket. He said the trick was when you asked for a some to pull your wallet out, most of them wouldn't take your money. That pretty much ruined for me ever giving him anything.

That would have cost even more. :eek: :rolleyes:

When they ask I tell them to get out of my face b4 I call the cops. I hate a beggar

I spent last week in New Orleans for training, hotel was in the Quarter. To my amazement I didnt get asked for money one time. this was a first. Did have a homeless guy ask for a smoke from me and that was fine. N.O. is usually the worst!

That's because they don't ask down there. :shaking:

When i see them coming, i put my hand in my pocket like im grabbing for some cash......when they get close enough, I ask them for a dollar cause im a little short.......


They get a very perplexed look on their face, and not 1 has ever had a reply

I never give money. I am a realist and know what these guys/gals are going to do with the money.

I have and will continue to bring them to Burger King/Mc Donalds, sit down with them, buy them a meal, and pray with them.

People that are begging for money are looking for and need change. A life of addiction is a short lived one, either in death or Jail. If you are Christian, show them the unconditional love of Jesus. Who knows, in the future that person might come to the Lord. At least they will know it in his name.

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrews 13:2

On a side note. A guy came up to me at work the other day. He asked if I could give him $7 bucks for a bed from the Salvation army. I told him I would go to Salvation army to buy a bed for him.....Just that I would go after lunch and to meet me there in about 30 minutes. He got all mad and said don't do me like that. Don't tell me you are going to be there and not go. I told him to trust me. Well, I showed up at Salvation army, but he didn't. I called his bluff, the cheapest bed at Salvation army was $79.

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Ive done that before. One time in Atlanta I must have really suprised the guy cause he actually gave me around 70 cents lol. Back in my younger days I used to tell the bums in downtown Lafayette I would give em $10 if I could kick em in the nuts. Never got taken up on that offer

The best trick is when you see someone coming to you that you think will ask for money is right when they get to you ask them for a dollar first. I always do this and they say "Man i was jus fixin to ask you da same thing." and they usually leave.

thats good for that SOB!

Last month I was on my way back from walmart and I noticed a homeless man holding a sign that he was hungry and broke, so I pulled off to the side and offered him a loaf of bread and some sandwich meat. Well the no good SOB said all I want is money... SOB is just gonna have to starve if thats how is going to be. I drove off and flicked him the finger, stupid *** could of had food for a week, he screwed that up. I now see him just about every day on the way from walmart and I still stick him the finger.

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lol . . . when they came over here they didn't ask either . . .

Props man.

just reading these stories fires me up! can't stand that

DING DING DING!! WE HAVE A WINNER!! Try to live by the golden rule daily. Never know , the one you help might actually listen someday and change their ways.

I give.....period.............. giving defines me.
What they do with what I give defines them.
I refuse to let anyone define where my heart stands.

I will get paid back.........it's just how I live and how I believe.

Well, if you have ever been to Houston...the corner of Westheimer and 610 loop, there is a black man that declares that he is the "real Spiderman" asking for money. I give because he makes me laugh!

"$10 if I could kick them in the nuts." I laughed out loud :rotfl:...

I give when things seem on the up and up, which isnt often...

Hydro

X2 I would hate to think I turned down somebody who actually needed help because they had a run of bad luck and no fault of there own.but I am a true believer in what goes around comes around.about three years ago I was in McDonalds and had a guy approach me sayin he was hungry and needed food so I gave him like three dollars. Well afterwards he left.... So my gf tells me "you knkw hes going to buy drugs". I told her im telling myself hes going to taco bell because he doesnt like McDonalds lol. Well a month later to the date I was back in McDonalds and as soon as I walk in a gentlemen approaches me says hey, I was supposed to meet a friend for lunch but he cant make it. I have a deluxe breakfast with an extra hashbrown if you would like it. I meediately thought about giving that other guy $3 and now im enjoying a free $7 breakfast. The lord works in mysterious ways.plus I dont mind giving a dollar here and there to make me feel good about myself. I give it away to hopefully make a difference or to help someone but in return that makes me feel good. Just ticks me off when my free money isnt good enougj

I am extrodinarily blessed, way beyond what I derserve or have worked for.

There is no doubt that I am here but by God's grace. I am too damn stupid and opinionated to be anything else.

Many time........I have rolled up to an exit and handed a person a twenty.
When life has been very good, a "c" note is not out the question.

Point is not to brag, it's to point out that the ability to give comes from giving.........

This is a big deal to me.
My dad has done more for more people than one could possibly imagine, really 10's of thousand of bucks, I am convicted that is why is business is 52 years old, and arguably one of the best in this area, if not the state.

You just cannot our give the grace that our Father places on us.

not judging anyone that sees it different......I just know what works for me.

We share the same beliefs . You just never know when that ONE is the ONE test you are given .

Never hate anyone. Ya just don't know. Put them in the position to better themselves and let them make the determination as to what to do with it.

Really, in my eyes, it goes back to an old saying. "Give a man a fish and, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and, he'll eat for a lifetime."

A few years back I left the house heading to the deer lease in Winfield. I had been working all day in the yard and did not bother to take a shower before I left because I wanted to make an afternoon hunt. Anyway I left the house in a hurry and managed to forget my wallet on the bar and I did not discover this till I made it to bunkie (3 hours,from the house) when I stopped for gas. Well I hated to do it but I had to do it but did not have a choice but to ask for gas money for the truck. After an hour of being told to go get screwed some one offered to fill up my truck so I could make it back to the house. I made sure to get the mans address and when I got home I sent him 4 times the cost it was to fill up my truck To this day if I run into someone asking for gas money I offer to put what they need in the tank. Problem is I was only taken up on the offer once.

i always give when i can...and what they do with the money is there choice but i leave there knowing I tried. I could care less what they use it for but like to think the ones I give to use it appropriately. When i lived in Galveston the bums were everywhere and this built a tolerance level in me and i woulda been broke in a week had i handed over change to every bum.
Just the other day on the corner of highway 14 exit ramp had a fella with a sign that said hungry and need food....nothing about money etc. I had a few cans of vienna sausage in my truck from a previous fishing trip and asked if that would suit him...his reply was...."HELL Yeah man....I'm freaking hungry" and smiled when i handed him over the food. I was actually impressed!

I do the same, have given many a bottled water or burger to someone who honestly needed it. However, if I'm in a bad part of town and see someone with meth mouth asking for money, I tell them I don't have any. Seen too many people at gas stations take that money and walk a couple houses over.

sammich

this is some funny stuff, it is sad when beggers can be choosers!

lol!!!!!!!!!! That's great!!

Wonder if that $10 nut kick would work on some of my always begging family members? . . . thanks Meaux, I will add that one to my repertoire . . .

shoose..........I'de pay ten dollars to get kicked in the nuts to not deal with some of my family members...........

That is amazing Dink.....May I use this too?

If you give someone $20 and never see them again that's a good thing.

I agree with you fully. I give until it hurts and always seem to bloom like a rose in the end. Read MATHEW 25:31-45 and you will see how this situation applies.