Panhandling by PM

Thanks for the heads up....guess I'll just go on working for a living.

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Andi

I'll take this opportunity to tell ya'll right here and now. No. Not just no but 'aw heck no.
I'll not give any of ya'll money, I'll not let any of ya'll use me to slake your carnal desires, I'll not aid you in a plot for world domination.
If you want to talk of fishin I guess that'll be ok. (sorry van zant's, my blood was up and couldn't help myself)

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I don't give money to street beggars, definitely not giving money to someone on the 'net.

I have not heard of this practice but now that you mention it..............
Another reason to be super alert on the internet . . . . thanks..........

Now as to all those emails about "support our cause" "please send a $20 donation."

I think it is so neat that my Lord made such a wide variety of people! Some who beg, some who give???? I wonder if the beggars are the givers in another timeline?

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OK, but it has to be fly fishing. That is the only kind of fishing that I know enough about to carry on a decent conversation.

TRellis

But but but but.... I wanted to get my electric [coach purse] bill paid!!!

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I was "dealing" with one of those folks that you see hanging around intersections with the card board sign with a "cry for help" of some type written on it. They swore to me that they averaged about 400 dollars a day doing that for 3 or 4 hours, It seems a lot of people truly are generous to a fault, and a lot of people are willing to abuse that good will.

Man in Baltimore made way more than $28.00 an hour on our street corner. I was packing an extra lunch each day to hand him on my way to work and after about 6 months he told me he really was grateful for the thought but he was doing just fine and I didnt need to bother with the lunch. so he told me that he quit his job making $10.00 hr to panhandle . I fumed all the way to work that day so the next morning I left early and pulled over to talk to him. He said that he had heard about panhandleing as a income and decided to try it. It worked for him so well he quit the job he had and had been doing this for3 years, he said he paid taxes on the income. Dresses in old dirty clothes to sell himself. And donated all the caned goods and packaged food to a shelter as well a clothes people would leave on (his) corner. I guess if you can handle the embarrassment it might be worth the money.

I'll be happy to send a picture of some money.

Forcast, I've heard of cases where whole families would go and panhandle. After all, what better way to get people to donate to you than to show up w/your kids in tow.

There is a woman who panhandles occasionally by our Walmart. Her sign says "Single Mother - Need Help" I always wonder WHERE her children are while she panhandles all day?????

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I sometimes want to throw a suit on and go stand next to the panhandlers with a sign that says, "Able vet. Don't need a thing. Just wanted to mess with this guy."

I did Some panhandling when I was homeless for awhile. I could double the take if I either made people laugh or offered something for a 'donation'. For laughs I'd attach a cup to a string / stick; sit on a park bench/ corner and holler "fishin for change!" while making an absolute fool of myself.
For "donations" I'd do sketches, tarot readings, or make roses out of tall grasses.
Oddly enough the laugh paid more.

Though I am experienced in getting people to give me free stuff I've found I'm happier gettin it with my own two hands.
From a grifter perspective though, to be a target this must be a good group! Lots of helping each other out, lending a hand, and pitching in for the right reasons must be going on to attract such nefarious interlopers.

Very inefficient. Put the kids out each on a separate corner. Like this one likely did....

I'm just asking for money to send more cats to Oggie

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Roger

There are enough suckers out there that makes something like this workable - just consider all the people asking for funds from the call centers - enough people must give otherwise they wouldn't be spending the time and money to call - there are a lot of people who have trouble saying - NO - look at those adds on TV showing those poor looking animals - they look so sad - so people feel sorry and send money - guess what - there are people making a good living off this kind of stuff - a lot of these so called charities are just a big racket - little of the money donated actually goes to where it should -

This is a nice statement- makes you think twice- that maybe you should give- I like that!

on a lighter funnier side to my thoughts on the statement- My mother used to say of an Ex-Husband of hers that took her thru the ringer money wise-

" He had to have been a poor leper in a past life that I walked past and kicked or something and now I have repaid my debt"

and she was never really that mad at what had happened-

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