Originally posted by Nash
Neat story. You go to California on business and see a homeless person there... then share this with everyone here on the BBS. Where do you live, Nuke?
I live in Arizona, not that it matters. I have seen bums and homeless people before, thats not my point. My point was that he was parked in a chair and with a sign 3 feet straight in front of the only exit at the Sav-On store and he was harrasing every person, even kids that came out. He looked perfectly fit to me.'
The people I feel sorry for are the people I see wandering around town sometimes that are mentally ill and have no one to take care of them and no hope of finding a job.
This guy I saw appeared to just be a lazy peice of trash scamming liquor money from a captive audience at a store. No one wants to be harrased like ..... all they want to do is pick up a few things and go home.
And just in case you care, I have given money to people in need when I didn't have enough for my needs. I gave some homeless person on the freeway on-ramp money when I didn't even have a job and I needed that money.
There was a guy that owned a liquor store in my area, he was about 60 or so. One day I picked up some beer from him and he was applolgizing to me that his cooler was broken and he had only warm beer. I didn't mind.
A few weeks later I come back, and he's got buckets of ice in the place, coolers glass all steamed over and inop. I could tell the guy had no money and this business was all he had to support himself, so I gave him a couple hundred dollars and said just keep it, I want you to have it.
Anyway, a about 2 months later, the place had new owners and they told me the old guy had been dying of cancer and passed away. I still feel like crying sometimes when I think of how lonely and hopless that man's situation was, and he never once complained to anyone or asked for handouts.
I have a big heart for people in true need, but I despise people like the guy I saw at the store.
