08-08-2015, 09:09 PM
[#0000FF]There are definitely folks out there that are looking for handouts...not a hand.
I was once visiting a friend who owned a nice restaurant. We were visiting in the kitchen area when a grubby looking guy came in through the back door. He asked "Have you got something I can eat?"
My friend evidently misunderstood. He thought the guy was asking if there was something he could do to earn some food. So he asked if the guy would mind cleaning up around the dumpster out back. The guy got all irate and hostile and replied "Hey man, I'm just looking for something to eat...not a job."
I have watched a couple of those "investigative reporting" TV shows that follow "panhandlers" around for a while. Amazing that some of them make hundreds of dollars a day...most of which goes for substance abuse. But there are some of those tattered and torn folks who go home at night to nice homes and drive nice cars.
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I was once visiting a friend who owned a nice restaurant. We were visiting in the kitchen area when a grubby looking guy came in through the back door. He asked "Have you got something I can eat?"
My friend evidently misunderstood. He thought the guy was asking if there was something he could do to earn some food. So he asked if the guy would mind cleaning up around the dumpster out back. The guy got all irate and hostile and replied "Hey man, I'm just looking for something to eat...not a job."
I have watched a couple of those "investigative reporting" TV shows that follow "panhandlers" around for a while. Amazing that some of them make hundreds of dollars a day...most of which goes for substance abuse. But there are some of those tattered and torn folks who go home at night to nice homes and drive nice cars.
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