one of our beggars shirts sez “ I Don’t Wanna Work” at least he’s honest.
During the covid lockdown, I spent a lot of time fishing in a local park. One of the more interesting homeless people living there did a lot of panhandling. “Time to go to work.” He made a shirt with a Sharpie...”Do not arrest this man.” The cops were issuing citations in lieu of custody, because the jail was closed to any but the worst offenders. This guy had a pocketful of citations. At first, I got on him for not having a fishing license, but later came to see that of all the people that hung out there, he was one of very few that would actually try to catch fish to eat. He never asked me for money, but did ask me to go to a store he’d been trespassed from to buy him a couple of beers. He gave me exact change.