Posted on 11/30/2016 7:35:02 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
It has never happened to me like this before. Yesterday, I stopped at a little taqueria just east of Austin to get something to eat. As I was waiting, a big, stocky black guy holding a roll of paper towels under his arm came up to me and asked me if I wanted my windshield cleaned for $1. I said, "No, I'm good." He kept on, saying "Hey, just give me $1. Can't you see I'm trying to work to get money for a taco?"
I politely declined, telling him my finances were tight due to car repairs and trying to pay for school for my son. He began to get upset and then looked at me and said, "You're racist!" and some other babble I didn't quite catch. He looked at my wedding ring and said he used to have one, but he sold it. I asked him, "How can I be racist if my wife is a native of Mexico?" "Why would I marry a Mexican if I were racist?" He shot back, "She's not black!"
The poor little woman in the taco trailer told him she'd make him a taco for free(to shut him up) and he settled down. Now, my question is this: Is this a hate crime, trying to extort money off of people as they go to a taco trailer trying to get something to eat? What if I were to have tried that on someone? Police probably would have been called. This has left me with a really bad taste in my mouth. I blame Obama and all Democrats for this. They have so divided people that a lot of blacks have been enabled in treating everyone else in an abusive manner. My CCW was in the car which kept me from telling the man what I wanted to tell him and things probably would not have ended well for the street thief. How sad to put oneself in a position to die over trying to extort $1 off of someone. This nation is going to hell in a handbasket.
This is ooooooold. A million years ago when I was a kid this was done. A young man would come to the door in a predominately white neighborhood, trying to sell some shade magazine discount thing, and when you said no, he’d look at you with big eyes and say “Is it because I am black?”
And it was a scam, there weren’t any magazines, and the kids were probably put up to it by white crooks.
These guys need to have someone laugh in their faces. Maybe 2% of the American population is actively racist against blacks. Truly racist means you wouldn’t give them a fair shot, like when the doctor comes in to your exam room and is black, you dress and leave, or a black couple comes in to your restaurant or shop and you don’t wait on them. Very few people are that prejudiced against people of African ancestry. Nearly half the country is actively prejudiced against conservatives. And would shun them socially. That is real prejudice.
Same thought I had. I grew up in NYC. Experiences like this were a daily occurrence if you weren't careful. You learned situational awareness from a young age, and just had to maintain a strong sense of which places to avoid. Growing up in NYC, you frequented street vendors where there were lots of "normal" people and no street bums.
I still do my "situational awareness" even though I'm no longer in NYC. When I go to an ATM for example, I case the area before approaching the bank, and am always turning my head looking around. It's the New Yorker in me.
A friend of mine tried that once. Turned out the beggar knew sign language! He started fingerspelling to her. D-O-Y-O-U-H-A-V-E-A-N-Y-M-O-N-E-Y?
“Ladies, don’t keep it in your purse. First thing they take.”
You are uninformed about specially designed carry purses. You carry with the strap across your body and they have piano wire in the strap to prevent slash and grab.
I have been confronted with aggressive panhandlers many times. As soon as I see one of those types standing in my path I act like I am mentally retarded. I push my tongue against my lower lip and I drool. I do not engage them in any conversation and I keep moving.
“I’d rather they just ask me for money to buy alcohol or drugs.”
Me too. When they’re honest like that, which is rare, I’ll usually pick up a 40oz bottle or a six pack and tell them I appreciate their honesty.
I work in Little Rock. Sometimes bad area. When the plethora of homeless, crackheads come up to me asking for money (usually 3-5 times a week), I just look at them and start speaking Spanish. “Lo siento, senior, no tengo dinero! Por favor, donde est el bano?”
I start asking questions in Spanish, trying to look like I’m lost, and they simply walk away. Only once did one of the homeless crack heads “bow up” on me.
A quick production of my Sig 220 let him know to not pick on me. He was arrested a few days later for kidnapping and raping a white female in downtown Little Rock over 3 days. He sold her to 4 more black crack heads for $50.00. She is lucky to be alive. I wish she had a gun.
Have you seen these videos?
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“I don’t carry cash.”
A black man whom I thought was a customer walking in just like myself, stepped in front of me and said the store refused to give him some free food because he was “a black man”. He went on to say his wife and hungry child were supposedly waiting in his car and pointed in a general direction(I didn't look - wasn't going to take my eyes off this guy).
He asked for $20, I said I didn't have $20, He kept asking and standing in my way until it got down to $5.00 for a burger at McDonalds (so what about the wife and child?). I told him I had NO money, but I would wait for his wife at the front of the store, where I would be happy to buy what she needed to help them out.
He walked away from me without a word.
As a side note, as I continued my walk towards the store, I noticed there had been a small audience to our exchange and the black guy was now having a convo with a Sheriff. I felt good about that. I happen to be very petite, way over 50 years - and white. I think he was just waiting for me to open my purse and get my wallet out so he could rob me.
I’m in NYC and the “squeegee men” are coming back on some congested intersections. Only this time they don’t even bother to clean your windshield.
“You got a couple dollars?” and an angry stare is all you’ll get. And many people hand it over out of fear of their car being damaged
Your body language and posture says volumes before you ever open your mouth in one of these encounters.
Watch how animals interact with each other, lots of communication going on, but no spoken language.
Puff up like you are getting ready to fight for your life, and you will appear formidable. Act submissive and trying to avoid trouble and you have hung an “easy mark” sign around your neck.
“Big mistake.
Really? So, ignoring him would have deescalated the situation? Seems like it would have made him angrier.”
I would not be bothered one iota if he died “angrier”.
You are both right. I am amazed at some of the responses here. Is a dollar really worth a man’s life? Ye Gods, have we sunk so low as Christians that we would shoot a man for a dollar?
Buy him a Taco.
My wife replies in Chinese.
I was taught never to carry a weapon with a round chambered. Nor do I store one that way. That's how I interpret "ready to shoot". Chambering a round is not a crime. Possession may be!
My wife passed over the .380 in favor of a tiny little .45 ACP Kimber with a Crimson Trace. She is scary good with that thing at the range.
I was putting groceries in my car when visiting my Mom and doing the shopping for her, when I was asked by a woman using a walker if I had any cash for her to buy something to eat. I told her she was welcome to the 43 cents I had in my pocket, which is all I had left after my purchases. She point blank told me that wasn’t enough to do anything with, and fortunately, left me to pursue someone else.
I despise panhandlers. They catch you when you have no way out. I know they do not use their money for food. My nephew used to sell his gear and anything else he could get his hands on for drugs. That is, until a wise judge sent him to jail for a year. We still pray that he stays clean. It’s been almost a year and a half.
Well, if you've worked out the variables and it makes sense. Me personally I'd have a car gun attached to the left side of the centerline console forward of the shifter.
An FR-S, huh? I've always liked the lines of those cars, what's it like to drive?
A hard lesson to learn:
You don’t have to talk to people.
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