Random Rant

[discreet_chaos]

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[flainn]

There's a guy who periodically stations himself next to the stop sign near Wal-Mart here in Trinidad, with a sign that says "Why lie? I need a beer."

[discreet_chaos]

Now see, him I'd give five dollars.

[creactivity]

Even though he didn't plan for his need for beer.

[eparchos]

AMEN!

[eparchos]

It could also scream of desperation and a lack of available public transportation... both of which are problems under the current economy and certainly are problems in this state. Have a heart or, failing that, an analytical mind. As far as "why walmart", well, that's where everybody in this country has to shop now.

[discreet_chaos]

There's still a Greyhound and it's generally cheaper than driving, unless you can get other people to buy your gas.

[lalabob11]

Heh. Greyhoud doesn't have a stop in Socorro anymore.

[lalabob11]

*Greyhound

[exvallis]

If people want gas, I'd be glad to use my can to get them some. People want food, I'd be glad to go into the store and buy them some. People want money, I'd be glad to pay for odd jobs if I had odd jobs for them to do...

The worst are those people who have small kids with them, and they drag the kids around the parking lots to beg. And they use the gas story. and its the same parking lot 3 weeks in a row. Thats getting on to child abuse...

[artificialpuppy]

If they have a car and I can see that it is out of gas, I just might give it to them. Well I’d be more than happy to follow them around with a gas can pestering them.

[discreet_chaos]

If they had a good story, were honest with me or as I've tried to note in other comments, if they were legitimately poor and not just irresponsible, then I'd react differently. I'm sure that I've given more than my share to people in need, the town where I went to college is still a Mecca for the homeless and I've told a few stories about them on these pages.

(I know that I've told the story somewhere, where a friend who owned an apartment building waived the move-in monies and accepted weekly rent, so that a guy who had built squatter's house out of cardboard and who had summered in it for years could come in from the cold. My part of the bargain was that I gave him an assistant manager's position in a sandwich shop that I owned because he wasn't dumb, but it took him just over a month to realize that he couldn't handle "responsibility", elected to quit and move back into his box)

(There's also this entry that I tagged as local, which is how I quickly found it, but it wasn't restricted to just my local filter and is only friends-

[artificialpuppy]

I think someone is hiring people to do this, just to emphasize the price of gas. Its not like when teenagers on road trips would hang around gas stations trying to sell you various junk they turned up if you wouldn’t just give them a buck or two.