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- Nov 28, 2001
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The sad thing is the vocal beggars by and large really are the scammers, but because they are the squeaky wheel they get the money. If there's any consolation to be had though the really pushy ass hole beggars usually have short terrible lives. The only thing that money is feeding is their drug habit.
But I knew a number of really really decent homeless people back when I was working retail at 7-11 and they were never the ones to beg. Not usually anyway. I felt sorry for these guys as, of the street people, they were the most deserving but usually also the ones to live on the least. One guy in particular stands out in my memory. He was just like Kenny from southpark, wore layer upon layer of dirty coats and you could barely see his face. He was a small hunched over guy who had difficulty walking, I believe due to diabetes, and would just shuffle about from place to place. Story was his wife left him and he had some kind of massive mental break down, like all the fuses 'upstairs' simultaneously blew, and I don't doubt it from his behaviour. But a kinder gentler guy you could not meet, never asked for anything, never stole anything, hardly ever talked. He would ask permission to take free samplers and the like, and when he came into a store carrying a drink or something he would actually make a point of notifying the staff that he was walking in with something so they didn't think he was stealing. I remember he had some problems counting out correct change sometimes, again brain was kind of fried, and he always made it a point to pay correctly down to the last penny.
But I knew a number of really really decent homeless people back when I was working retail at 7-11 and they were never the ones to beg. Not usually anyway. I felt sorry for these guys as, of the street people, they were the most deserving but usually also the ones to live on the least. One guy in particular stands out in my memory. He was just like Kenny from southpark, wore layer upon layer of dirty coats and you could barely see his face. He was a small hunched over guy who had difficulty walking, I believe due to diabetes, and would just shuffle about from place to place. Story was his wife left him and he had some kind of massive mental break down, like all the fuses 'upstairs' simultaneously blew, and I don't doubt it from his behaviour. But a kinder gentler guy you could not meet, never asked for anything, never stole anything, hardly ever talked. He would ask permission to take free samplers and the like, and when he came into a store carrying a drink or something he would actually make a point of notifying the staff that he was walking in with something so they didn't think he was stealing. I remember he had some problems counting out correct change sometimes, again brain was kind of fried, and he always made it a point to pay correctly down to the last penny.
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