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Ran into a punk kid at McDonald's today.

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Corporate Thug

Lifer
Went to McDonald's for a quick coffee. I work in a weird part of town that has a lot of businesses/wealth but is also improvised. You are guaranteed to run into a begger on a lunch break. Sure enough I spotted a guy in a wheel chair with obvious mental deficiencies at the counter at the McDonalds.

I'm walking over to the counter to place an order and this skater kid walks right past me, blaring some music in his head phones. He couldn't have been more than 16 y/o. The guy in the wheelchair asks him for a quarter and the kid offers to buy him lunch. The guy says he wants nuggets...the kid asks if he wants a combo. The guy says only fries, the kid say "What about a water too, it's kind of hot outside."

The kid orders the food right next to me, I offer to pay for his and the wheelchair guys...He says "nah, thanks...I got it."

He proceeds to not only wait for his food, but the food for the other guys, gets him napkins, sauce, etc., sets up the food for him on the table, then leaves.

What a kid. I bet the second he walked out half the people were passing judgment on him because he had a straight brimmed hat on backwards, baggy-ish shorts, big head phones, and a skateboard.
 
That was nice. 🙂

We're so conditioned, myself included, that everything we look at, we actually don't look at it. Rather, it is based on our past experiences.
 
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Newbian said:
Wait... they allow the guy to beg inside the restaurant?

Sounds a bit odd.
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It depends on the manager...most of the time they will kick them out. Sometime they will let them stick around for a couple of minutes and look the other way. I think they were giving this guy a break because he was in a wheel chair + mentally handicapped.
 
[QUOTEZ=tHa ShIzNiT;35171510]Thats hard to believe man. I would hardly do this and I have a real job. I might shed a tear if I saw this happen myself.[/QUOTEZ]
 
I'm more interested in the fact that you ignored the homeless man until you saw the "punk" buying him lunch...then you offered to pay for them both.

There is nothing worse than someone who only tries to do good when they see someone else doing it. That's messed up because it isn't genuine.

Had the kid not come in...you would have ordered your food and walked out, not giving a second thought to the guy in the wheelchair.
 
I once saw three punk kids outside of In-N-Out. They brought their own cups and just stole soda while loitering on one of the tables outside. Ten minutes after my arrival, a cop had pulled up screaming at them to sit back down. A shame they weren't shot.

SheHateMe said:
I'm more interested in the fact that you ignored the homeless man until you saw the "punk" buying him lunch...then you offered to pay for them both.

There is nothing worse than someone who only tries to do good when they see someone else doing it. That's messed up because it isn't genuine.

Had the kid not come in...you would have ordered your food and walked out, not giving a second thought to the guy in the wheelchair.
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What if the op pulled out a knife, cut two gaping holes into the kid and the homeless guy, and then sodomized both of them? I think that would be worse than doing good only when inspired by others.
 
HamburgerBoy said:
What if the op pulled out a knife, cut two gaping holes into the kid and the homeless guy, and then sodomized both of them? I think that would be worse than doing good only when inspired by others.
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Then hopefully he will go behind bars where he'd belong.

But seriously....only doing good because you saw someone else doing it is pretty lame, imo...because it doesn't come off as genuine. Suddenly you care about feeding the homeless guy you just ignored when you came in because some punk that you also didn't care much for turned out to have a bigger heart than you.


Help the homeless because thats REALLY what you want to do....not because someone next to you did it.
 
SheHateMe said:
Then hopefully he will go behind bars where he'd belong.

But seriously....only doing good because you saw someone else doing it is pretty lame, imo...because it doesn't come off as genuine. Suddenly you care about feeding the homeless guy you just ignored when you came in because some punk that you also didn't care much for turned out to have a bigger heart than you.

Help the homeless because thats REALLY what you want to do....not because someone next to you did it.
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What makes the intangible and subjective quality of being "genuine" more valuable to the quantifiable benefit of feeding a homeless guy to you?
 
They'll be there again tomorrow...and hit you up for a fifty!

But seriously, you did trample on the kids generosity.
 
Corporate Thug said:
I bet the second he walked out half the people were passing judgment on him because he had a straight brimmed hat on backwards, baggy-ish shorts, big head phones, and a skateboard.
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You know you just did what you suspect other people were doing.
 
SheHateMe said:
I'm more interested in the fact that you ignored the homeless man until you saw the "punk" buying him lunch...then you offered to pay for them both.

There is nothing worse than someone who only tries to do good when they see someone else doing it. That's messed up because it isn't genuine.

Had the kid not come in...you would have ordered your food and walked out, not giving a second thought to the guy in the wheelchair.
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It's called passing it on and there's nothing wrong with it. Sometimes people just need a reminder.
 
HamburgerBoy said:
What makes the intangible and subjective quality of being "genuine" more valuable to the quantifiable benefit of feeding a homeless guy to you?
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Easy....because the kid didn't decide to try and help the guy because he saw someone else doing it. He walked in and immediately cared as soon as he saw the guy and wanted to help him.


That is a display of someone who has a genuine sense of compassion for others.


The OP did not help the homeless guy. The kid did not need him to pay for the items for him and the OP only wanted to help when he saw the "punk" being a good person. That is not a genuine sense of compassion....that homeless guy meant nothing to him. He was going to order his food and leave.


I don't know what you find "subjective" about the actions of the two people in this story. It is obvious who is genuine and who is not.
 
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I did this once.. kinda thought the dude took advantage of it though he requested quite a bit. But maybe it doesn't happen often. But never did it again.. didn't really feel that great since the guy came across as greedy/entitled.

edit: probably the main reason I haven't done it again though is it is kind of awkward. I think awkwardness is why most people don't help others
 
SheHateMe said:
Easy....because the kid didn't decide to try and help the guy because he saw someone else doing it. He walked in and immediately cared as soon as he saw the guy and wanted to help him.

That is a display of someone who has a genuine sense of compassion for others.

The OP did not help the homeless guy. The kid did not need him to pay for the items for him and the OP only wanted to help when he saw the "punk" being a good person. That is not a genuine sense of compassion....that homeless guy meant nothing to him. He was going to order his food and leave.

I don't know what you find "subjective" about the actions of the two people in this story. It is obvious who is genuine and who is not.
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I was replying more to your general statement of there being "nothing worse than someone who only tries to do good when they see someone else doing it"; I can see the argument that the op was mooching so-to-speak and falsely compassionate, but your claim is not limited to such cases. If the punk inspired the op to help the next homeless guy he saw, would you still say he's acting off of a less-than-genuine motive being that his inspiration began from the punk alone?
 
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