i once offered a bum food after he asked me for money. I told him i had no money, only food. He said he didn’t want the food, then asked if i could go take money out of an ATM instead.
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a lot of times there is a good reason they are homeless.
that is true but i have the same sutiation as newmen and now i honestly dont care to see them on the the street. many times them trying to sell me freshly stolen pillows out of kids beds, like a bad knock off sponge bob pillow and a horrible dragon looking thing. and another time a lady, after i gave her money came back and wanted a 20 after i gave her like 2 dollers in quaters.
I saw a ton of bums when I was in Santa Barbara, which made me think. Why bum around someplace cold? I’m sure if they applied themselves they could somehow reach someplace that doesn’t have single digit temperatures. Sitting around begging for change and getting fucked up in a tropical climate > freezing in Buffalo. Just a thought.
I used to occasionally give spare change to bums around Elmwood. One day a guy in front of A-Plus near Bryant asked me for some change, I said no I didnt have any cash. He then said well then buy me a beer if youre using your card. Bold, but for whatever reason I was feeling nice that day and bought him one of those big cans of Blue. I came out and gave it to him, and he was like ‘Whats this? You could have gotten a 40 for how much this cost! Take it back and get me a 40!’ So, I took it back and got in my car and left.
Fuck bums.
I donate to United Way out of every paycheck, I’m not giving any more money to assholes on the street.
yea i work at subzero on chippewa and when im walkin to my car at about 430-5am on weekends i get hit off by like 5 or 6 bums a night for money. one saw me lookin under my hood and asked if i needed a jump. i wondered what he would use maybe one hand on my battery and another in an electrical outlet? anyways i offered him a few dollars in pennies and he didnt want it. if i was starving id want those fucking pennies. so i say offer bums pennies. if they dont want em they arent as poor as u think they are.
I’m going to set up a thing where I donate so much of my total sales (not profit,anything that comes in my door) To St Judes childrens hospital and the American Cancer Society.Hope to Give at least $5,000 a year to them.
I have no sympathy for bums they can get a job and a cheap apartment like anyone else can.They just choose not to.
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I started talking to a homeless dude in NYC a few months ago. Bad idea. All I wanted was a picture of him, but he said only if I give him like $100. He didn’t fucking shut up for about 45 minutes to an hour, but I was too nice to walk away. I just listened to him mumble shit about the goverment and other bullshit. He kept calling me a cracker. He was such a skitzophrenic. He thought some people in this world had two heads, and someone else “controlled the amazing sensations in his nether regions.” At this point I got freaked out and told him I had to leave, but asked him if he wanted anything from the store we were outside of. I bought him an Arizona Iced Tea, and he told me he didn’t want it. I asked him if he ever had it before and he said no. I then proceeded to tell him how it was 100% preservative free and all this shit because he was trying to tell me it was bad for him. He was such a bitch. I started yelling at him and told him I didn’t care if he didn’t want it, I was going to leave it next to him anyways and if he decided to drink it, then he’s welcome. Then I walked away, pictureless.
one time while walking down elmwood out of the 24 hour store hagen and i walked by some bums that were sitting on the front steps of a house that was vacant at the time. they were sitting like 20 feet? away from the sidewalk and yelled at us to give them change. i said sure come and get it. he wanted me to walk up to the house and give him change. i said fuck that, thats bullshit and in a drunken rage reached into my pocket and grabbed a handful of change and beerbottle caps and threw it at them as hard as i could.
they were not to happy about that. then hagen and i walked 10 feet or so more down the sidewalk and he started rolling change down the sidewalk. fucking bums. but i always put 2 beers in my pocket if im coming from a party in the city and going to brickbar/pink and give them to the first bums i see. they are usually very appreciative.
Oh. GOOD STORY. I was walking down Main St. from the Town Ballroom after a show, and some bums were asking everyone who was walking by for 50 cents. No one really answered them, and then out of no where, some kid goes “Nah dude, I don’t like rap music.” or something and I swear to god it must have been the funniest “you had to be there” moment in history.
LOL, that wasn’t a bum though, in the homeless sense. He got out of a newer Chrysler minivan, probably stolen, and proceeded to steal my fries. Dammit.
I like the shoeshine bum. At least he does something for his money. JAM bought me a shoe shine once. The dude was mad at me because I had previously walked through deep mud and my shoes were a mess. He then wanted a tip and he bummed a cigarette off me. Every bum wants your cigarettes. They’re relentless.
i read an article in the newspaper once about how in big cities a lot of the ‘‘homeless’’ people you see asking for change arent really homeless. apparently begging for change is a huge money maker.
