Not going to happen soon.
Some people are just not going to learn to leave others alone. Starting with 0bama on down.
The people in the taco trailer are probably working very hard in order to keep themselves going. Then some guy who is probably too lazy to work thinks they ought to support him.
I pointedly ignore these cretins.
The thing to do is act like you’re deaf and mute. Just point to your ear and shake your head.
Buy the man a taco. Talk to him about Health Insurance.
I would have chambered a round and make sure he saw it. I'm old and don't care!
its too much to contain..
I was walking to a government lab in Richmond Va and was accosted by hoards of beggars, i kept walking and at the end of the gauntlet a black guy jumped up in front of me and told me to give him money, I said no and he said he would kill me if I did not..I decided not to beat him to a pulp and kept walking until I found a police officer about a block away..I explained what happened and he said, go away, we cannot keep up with all of them..just deal with it..
How was the taco?
Tell him you thought president Obama was supplying the tacos.
Why would you talk to panhandlers.
Big mistake.
I don’t carry cash. When they ask, I say, “Do you take plastic? It’s all I have.”
Just a suggestion, keep a video enabled device on you, ready to go at all times.
Ithe guy needs to learn some manners. I don’t think the guys who clean windshields exactly use the majority of that money for food. Gas stations and convenience stores attract a lot of scammers, selling gas when its really water, I’m trying to get enough money for a bus ride, the will work for food guys, etc...I’d rather they just ask me for money to buy alcohol or drugs. I understand desperation but that sounds like an entitlement attitude not desperation. Carry when possible.
I reckon it is best at times to say nothing.
Obama wrote and told a story about his grandmother similar to this. She was approached by a black man panhandling on a bus, and it frightened her. She came home and told her hubby about it. Her Husband told her she was upset over nothing, the future President said “it was an example of his grams being racist like all white people.” The quotes are not perfect, but the story is true and in one of “his” books.
I feel your pain
There is one that’s been doing that to me for the last 8 years
Will be glad when he is gone
You shouldn’t have even gotten in a conversation with him. You don’t owe him an explanation as to why you can’t or won’t give him money. That’s your business. Just say no, and walk away. These thugs think that if they bully you, you’ll get scared and give in. I got really good at saying “NO” and walking away, working as an officer, and Sergeant in NY State’s prison system for 25 years. I’m a female, and stood up to all sizes of bullies. I might have even called the police (not 911) to report him, because if he harassed you, he’s harassed others, and he’s probably back there right now doing the same thing.
Buy the man a taco but tell him you need to tell him about Jesus first.
While he’s just demanding a buck from you, if he’s hanging around that poor lady’s taco truck he’s effectively subjecting her to greater extortion by driving off her customers if she doesn’t pay him off.
When I was living in St Louis I saw a guy do this to people coming to the Post Office and he was pretty pushy too. While he was trying to do it to a little old lady a big black guy intervened and told her to go on, then proceeded to chew out the panhandler to the point the panhandler left apologizing.
The guy who intervened was the head of Operation Brightside, an effort to get these panhandlers to clean up and grow up. He told me after the panhandler left that it’s harder to get the panhandlers straightened out when people give in to them ... they can, after all, easily make 80 bucks a day just at a location like the Post Office and all tax-free with no sweat.
I feel you. I work in downtown Austin and have to walk about 3 blocks from the parking garage to my building. Over the last couple years the number of panhandlers downtown has not only increased but they have gotten more ‘aggressive’ as well. Used to be they stayed on the outside fringes of downtown and just stood with their signs. Now they are coming right into the downtown business district and getting right in people’s faces. Thanks to my 6’4” height and stocky build they tend to steer clear of me, but I’ve had to help a few ladies from time to time deal with some of these people.