Morning Coffee....with a vent

[shiner]

I've had that happen a lot too. [img]mad.gif[/img] I'm going to start replying "You need gas, huh?" and then fart on them! Just because I have a bald head I guess they think I'm Daddy Warbucks.

[Spore]

I'll take a coffee...

I tell the people on the street the same thing I tell every charity that phones my house.

FUCK OFF. I have a wife, two kids and a Star Wars collection to build so, no, I have no money to spare.

[KillerKanuck]

I remember when that goddamn Loch Ness Monster asked me for treefiddy.

Andy, if you really need to vent, here you go.

[Biomechanoid]

Coffee with Swiss Miss, please.

I haven't seen any panhandling since I lived in Pittsburgh. Dahntahn there are the usual assortment of bums with a cup and a sign, begging for money for "food." So, every once in a while I'd stroll out of Arby's with an extra burger and fries and see if there were any takers. Most of them weren't as hungry as they let on, apparently.
Then, there was the guy scamming a ride every few months with some story about how he cut his foot on a piece of glass and had no bus fare, but if we could just give him a lift up to Squirrel Hill and left our address he could send us some cash. He had the same basic story every time, with slight variences, but was too burned out to remember who he tried to swindle the last time.
Anyone begging for gas money just isn't being creative enough. A guy here at work is digging up any old meds he can find to see if he can get the prescriptions transferred to Giant Eagle for their GetGo Fuelperks promotion. He's been getting $4-$5 off a gallon. [img]eek.gif[/img] (Not to mention all the prescription meds...) The downside is that they don't carry diesel fuel, so he can only use the free gas in his wife's car. There are tales of diesel truck owners in the area taking leftover grease from the fast food joints to use as fuel, but I haven't smelled any yet myself.
I guess stealing a giant fan is no better than begging for gas money... [img]redface.gif[/img]

[macabeee]

Mornin' All!

Andy, I share your pain. A couple days ago I was in a gas station and a dude pulled up to the pump, got out and asked me for a couple bucks for gas and started pumping away.

I, of course, told him no but that didn't stop him. He proceeded to pump $5 worth of gas into his hooptie and walk over to the next pump and ask them for money.

Then this past Saturday night I had some dirt-bag in the restaurant going up to tables asking for gas money. I threw him out and proceeded to ream the hostess for letting him in in the first place (he told her he was looking for a party that was already there eating)

Now, I went to college and lived in Downtown Detroit, the pan handling capitol of the state, so I expect to be bothered when I'm down there. But to have this kinda thing happening out in the 'burbs is kinda distressing....

[sculpey]

It happens here all the time.

[Darkest Angel]

...you Easterners are behind the curve. Been going on down here for at least a couple of years. Hell, they even have variants--last time it happened to me, there was a whole group of 'em, and they sent the best looking of the chicks to ask me for cash. Heh. I must look like a mark...or horny. Probably more horny.

...she wasn't that good looking, though. She even tried flirting for gas money, which turned it from borderline insulting to kinda pathetic and creepy...

[Biomechanoid]

Was that with the truck or the compact?