tell it like it is

Why......he's just lyin....he's gonna buy fertilizer and diesel fuel..................

yeah.. maybe

QUOTE (SLITS @ Jul 26 2005, 08:03 PM)

he's gonna buy fertilizer and diesel fuel..................

For his crops and tractor.

QUOTE (SLITS @ Jul 26 2005, 06:03 PM)

fertilizer and diesel fuel..................

Hey, knock it off! I don't take pictures of you at work, and make funny comments!




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QUOTE (redshift @ Jul 26 2005, 06:44 PM)

Hey, knock it off! I don't take pictures of you at work, and make funny comments! M

Now that would make a good thread: "What the heck do you look like at work?" Could be interesting.

QUOTE (drew365 @ Jul 26 2005, 09:55 PM)

Now that would make a good thread: "What the heck do you look like at work?" Could be interesting.

Yup, if I stay unemployed for a bit longer, I'll probably look like the picture above

Except on the board, I would have: need money for beer and rust bucket!

after the dot-com bust we had computer programmers sit on the streetcorners here in SF with cardboard signs ...

now that was funny ...
Andy

Take the sign away from him and replace it with a shovel.... Then work him 12 hours straight- Be nice and give him all the water he can drink.

I once sold an engine to an old hippie...
The guy calledme and said he wanted an engine for his bus and said he had 10K to spend on something that would not leave him stranded..

a few months later and well into the project he wanted to come check on the engine and bring me a deposit.... well you guesed it, it was all in change and dollar bills.......

He then commenced to tell me that he made that much IN ONE DAMN MONTH being a begger!!! I could not believe that he had the balls to actually tell me that, much less BRAG about cheating hard working people out of their earned money!

I was so furious that I gave him back his 200.00 binder payment and told him to disappear- Damn I can't stand a friggin begger....

Jake, are you sayin you can't help a brother out?

"Just a nickel for a smile, lasts a long while"- heard (frequently) on the corner of Mason and Sutter.

How many times has someone come up to you and asked for a dollar because they ran out of gas? I don't know why, but they single me out! I stopped giving when the guy walked into the store with me and bought a beer with my "gas money".

Hell, I'll help anyone, BUT don't ask me for a dime!

If I see you are in need I'll help you, but don't ask me for a dollar, especially when your back is just as strong as mine! The worst place I have ever been for beggers was in Memphis TN when I was in Turbine engine school... its insane!

Same goes for employees... The ones that ASK for a raise are better off going somewhere else- They *think* thay are worth more than they are getting paid, so its not long before they start to slack or steal...... If theyare worth it, they get it because I notice, otherwise don't ask me or you might just be finding a newspaper looking for a new job!

But- I'm an asshole.........

QUOTE (drew365 @ Jul 26 2005, 08:55 PM)

QUOTE (redshift @ Jul 26 2005, 06:44 PM) Hey, knock it off! I don't take pictures of you at work, and make funny comments! M Now that would make a good thread: "What the heck do you look like at work?" Could be interesting.

I wouldn't like people taking pictures of me while I am sleeping.

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Hell, I'll help anyone, BUT don't ask me for a dime!

I agree.

but at the same time, if i passed that guy on the street and he says " man, can you spare a dime, I'm trying to get enough cash for Jake to build my engine"
I'd probably give it to him.

QUOTE (LongARM @ Jul 26 2005, 05:01 PM)

tell it like it is

dont need your help I can F$%# of my own money. THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Had a guy stop me outside of a 7-11 a few years ago, "hey man can you spare some change, me and my budy want to get drunk" I gave him $2.00 because he was honest. When I came out we had a little chat, funny guy he earned it Kept callin me California, asked me if I had ever thought about acting cause I looked like I should be in the movies. All this AFTER I gave him the money and never asked for any more.Sometimes bums are cool to hang with Ask Scot Thatcher, he spent some time under Miles's bridge

The last bum that I gave money to, back in 1994, asked me for some change for the "United negro cheeseburger fund." I got a chuckle so I gave him my burdensome pocket change. He came out a few minutes later and showed my friend and I a reciept for the burger.
I find that those of us who have been down and worked our way up seem to be less charitable. Perhaps, it is due to our righting our selves with out having to beg. I have been homeless and lived in a car before and I will be the first to give a hand up rather than a hand out. I like handing a bum a neutra grain bar or something just to see their expression

There is a guy or two around phoenix/tempe area that has a sign that he holds up at the off ramps of the freeways. "why lie? need beer" heh.

So Doc. You've been here long enough, is it the heat or the humidity? Supposedly hit 104 deg. here in RIC today and what am I doing? Cutting floor pans out of a 230 SL Rust sticks REALLY good to sweaty arms

Humidity. It rained on me while I was riding my motorcycle and I didn't realize it wasn't my sweat until I stopped

I was at stoplight in Monterey behind a new Ferrari a few years ago, a panhandler came up to the passenger door and I could clearly see the driver lean over and hand the lady $100! She just turned around and walked away, no thank you, not a smile….. nothing. At that point I realized that giving money to someone like that simply justifies the behavior rather than actually helping the person.

Driving a $200k car must make someone feel pretty guilty when they are confronted with someone holding their hand out.

I use to drop a buck or two on a Panhandler that hung out at the freeway exit I had to take for work.

Until work made me come in 2 hours early at 4 am, and I saw him jump out of a Lexus, smooch the blond who was sliding over to take the wheel, and grab his sign out of the trunk.

Unbelievable.

QUOTE (drew365 @ Jul 26 2005, 09:55 PM)

QUOTE (redshift @ Jul 26 2005, 06:44 PM) Hey, knock it off! I don't take pictures of you at work, and make funny comments! M Now that would make a good thread: "What the heck do you look like at work?" Could be interesting.

Get your hands out of your pants, I wear regular clothes at work..

HEY WAIT! YOU ARE SICK!



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QUOTE (LvSteveH @ Jul 28 2005, 01:01 AM)

Driving a $200k car must make someone feel pretty guilty when they are confronted with someone holding their hand out.

You'd think so, but it's not always true... bastards.


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QUOTE (LvSteveH @ Jul 27 2005, 09:01 PM)

Driving a $200k car must make someone feel pretty guilty when they are confronted with someone holding their hand out.

Not that I'll ever have that problem, if I ever have a car that expensive, you'll see a mail box on the side and a microwave in the passenger seat, because I'll be living in it.

My favorite
Hiedi

Last time I gave a couple $$ to a guy with a sign was in Vegas....but you tip everyone there a couple $$

My boss at the trade show gave me hell for doing it .

A guy on crutches came up to me at the gas station and gave me that " do you have a some change to spare, I ran out of gas" bit. I asked him where his car was (while lookning at the crutches ). He pointed randomly toward the parking lot.
I told him that I had a gas can and could fill it for him. He told me "Thank you anyway ma'am. I should be able to bring the car over here." And he hobbled away on his crutches.

Later that day I saw him 10 miles across town at another corner gas station!

It amazes me how desperate people are for gas money to hobble 10 miles across town on crutches.

QUOTE (Hawktel @ Jul 28 2005, 12:04 AM)

I use to drop a buck or two on a Panhandler that hung out at the freeway exit I had to take for work. Until work made me come in 2 hours early at 4 am, and I saw him jump out of a Lexus, smooch the blond who was sliding over to take the wheel, and grab his sign out of the trunk. Unbelievable.

local news did a thing on panhandlers here that claim to be homeless...

they followed one lady home... she hopped in her BMW (about 4 years old) and drove to her house in a prominant part of town...


another guy they followed the whole week, he "works" the streets here, stays in a nice apt. and then on friday after rush hour, he goes back to oklahoma, gets his other car(not the POS he is seen in here, a newish mustang, IIRC) from his big house, and spends the next couple of days in the Indian casino... partying like there's no tommorrow...

another(a midget) used the "will work for food" gimmick, and people would give him combo meals from the nearby mcdonalds and food from their grocery bag... he throws it in the sewer because he's really not hungry... I'm sure he eats after he gets back to his denton house.

these people are living better than most hard-working people and all they do is stand and beg...

my dad even offered to pay a few panhandlers in Austin to help his "clean-up" crew(picking up nails and "trash" from the ground while they are putting the roof on) , he offered to pay them $100/day and feed them 2 meals a day... not one person was willing to do it... it was too much like work