Posted on 11/01/2017 7:28:31 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
When approached by a panhandler I say “buzz off, I’m working this side of the street!”
A guy drives a truck a mile down a bike path and people are too into whatever to pay attention to all the screams to get the heck out of the way.
So then lets ban TVs and stereos because someone might fly a plane into your house, and you wont hear someone screaming to run for it.
It’s absurd to orient your life around that. You might as well just say this is “part and parcel of living in a big city”.
> When approached by a panhandler I say “buzz off, I’m working this side of the street!” <
LOL. And that’s one thing I like about Free Republic, and about conservative websites in general. There’s lots of gentle humor.
If this were a liberal website, there’d be 150 comments about how panhandlers exist only because Republicans have ruined the economy. About half of those comments would be vulgar. And none of them wold be humorous. Those guys are deadly serious. Much like Lenin was.
Haha, major fail there, bud.
I have very odd hearing. I can totally block out someone talking to me (especially liberals), but hear the fan on low in the next room. Having been trained as a cryptologic techncian in the navy, and listening to Morse code, and other electronic signals (found during the Spinnin’ & Grinnin’ method), I hear the odd sound, and tune out the normal ones. I also only use one ear bud, or cover one ear with headphones. Just the way I was trained, I guess.
Ha. That’s actually what my father said he would say to panhandlers in Chicago in the early 50’s.
It worse in Austia, the lampposts are out to get them!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3600280/posts
>My biggest gripe with earbuds is how they generally make people appear unapproachable and anti-social. Like preoccupation with smartphones, earbuds just make it much more difficult to engage in friendly conversation with others (or flirt with members of the opposite sex), especially in public settings like a gym.
Which is why we wear them. America is no longer a high trust society and social interactions are mostly a danger rather than a pleasure. Wear the earbuds and the homeless, con-artists, and other types leave us alone.
>Sadly, I believe America has pretty much decayed into a social graveyard since the turn of the century as more and more folks elect to constantly “plug in” to technology (which is especially observable among Millennials).
Low trust nations are by definition social graveyards.
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