04-25-2018, 02:59 PM
I get a lot of the hard-luck "I need gas money to get to my dying grandma in anyplace USA" kind of stories by people in the grocery store and gas station parking lots here too.
Sometimes I'll give a dollar or two if I have cash on me. But, not when they're rude or totally wasted. "Sorry, I don't carry cash" is my standard refusal.
The worst kind of hit-up for cash by strangers is when people standing on the side of the road at long lights come up and just start washing car windows without even asking, and then demand to be paid for their services. THAT pisses me off. It used to happen at least once or twice month, but it seems to happen way less frequently now. Maybe the cops have cracked down on the extortion (or maybe it's because I keep my truck a lot cleaner since I got it painted)?
Anyway, I think I'd probably have a hard time resisting giving the dolled-up monkey a couple of bucks for originality.
Sometimes I'll give a dollar or two if I have cash on me. But, not when they're rude or totally wasted. "Sorry, I don't carry cash" is my standard refusal.
The worst kind of hit-up for cash by strangers is when people standing on the side of the road at long lights come up and just start washing car windows without even asking, and then demand to be paid for their services. THAT pisses me off. It used to happen at least once or twice month, but it seems to happen way less frequently now. Maybe the cops have cracked down on the extortion (or maybe it's because I keep my truck a lot cleaner since I got it painted)?
Anyway, I think I'd probably have a hard time resisting giving the dolled-up monkey a couple of bucks for originality.