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thatguyoverthere wrote:
So I said this is how you can repay me: when you get the money that you would use to pay me back, take that cash and go to the church of your choice and drop that cash in the offering plate, and we'll call our deal done!

I have a friend who is Baptist deacon and he tells me the churches keep a computer notification of panhandlers coming to the church. They will start at OKC and work all the churches down to DFW

Nope. I never got any money back

Javier730 wrote:

Tracker wrote:the 1970s, when I was 18, two friends and I were driving around town and stopped at the local washateria to use the bathroom. It was a cold drizzly evening. There was a guy sitting in a drier door trying to get warm. I felt sorry for him but I friends laughed. When we came out of the bathroom he asked in a broken voice if we could give him a cigarette. I told him none of us smoked. The three of went to our homes to eat supper. I then went to the store, bought a pack of smokes, stuffed a $20 in the pack and went back to the washateria. I asked him how it was going and if he still wanted a cigarette. When I handed him the pack and he saw the $20 he got tears in his eyes and said "I can't take this" and tried to hand it back. I wouldn't take it back. I wanted my address so that one day he could mail the $20 back to me. I tore a personal check in half and gave him the portion with my name and address. If asked if there was a bus stop around and I told him a few block down. I saw him walking towards the stop while I was driving off......Now that's someone who needed a break, unlike these professional beggars with their canned story who get mad if you don't give them their gas money

Very kind of you but I would not give my address to any person in a situation like that.

I was to my PO Box. Not the house address

the 1970s, when I was 18, two friends and I were driving around town and stopped at the local washateria to use the bathroom. It was a cold drizzly evening. There was a guy sitting in a drier door trying to get warm. I felt sorry for him but I friends laughed. When we came out of the bathroom he asked in a broken voice if we could give him a cigarette. I told him none of us smoked. The three of went to our homes to eat supper. I then went to the store, bought a pack of smokes, stuffed a $20 in the pack and went back to the washateria. I asked him how it was going and if he still wanted a cigarette. When I handed him the pack and he saw the $20 he got tears in his eyes and said "I can't take this" and tried to hand it back. I wouldn't take it back. I wanted my address so that one day he could mail the $20 back to me. I tore a personal check in half and gave him the portion with my name and address. If asked if there was a bus stop around and I told him a few block down. I saw him walking towards the stop while I was driving off......Now that's someone who needed a break, unlike these professional beggars with their canned story who get mad if you don't give them their gas money

der Teufel wrote:I was approached a few years ago in a Home Depot parking lot by a decently attired middle-aged woman who had a sad story about running out of gas. Supposedly her car was several miles away, her mother was injured and needed transportation for medical help, etc. I told her I'd be willing to drive her back to her car, stopping along the way to pick up a gas can and fill it for her.

She wasn't interested in that.

A local football coach stopped to fill up a school bus at an out-of-town game. He was approached for gas money. The coach told the beggar he'd fill his car but wouldn't give him money. The guy got mad, said "Well ____", got in his car and drove off.

Vol Texan wrote:The beggar isn't the only thing to worry about. You also need to remember their only job may be to distract you from the other person stealing from within your car while you're busy fending off the request for money.

And what makes it easy for them to pull this are new autos that automatically unlock all doors when the drive gets out to pump gas.

Vol Texan wrote:The beggar isn't the only thing to worry about. You also need to remember their only job may be to distract you from the other person stealing from within your car while you're busy fending off the request for money.

And what makes it easy for them to pull this are new autos that automatically unlock all doors when the drive gets out to pump gas.

I was hit up during lunch in restaurant parking lot by someone who claimed to be a trucker from Oklahoma. I don't recall his exact story but he showed me his ID. I told him to go to the bank and have money wired to him from his bank. The next day I went into Hibbett Sports and there he was giving the employees the same story.

Another time, I was supposed to meet my wife at a restaurant. She was late and when she finally showed up she said some women approached her asking for money to feed her kids. My wife walker her over to Whataburger and bought her burgers. I told my wife she was just giving you a canned story that she's rehearsed. When we finished eating and I was walking to my pickup this same woman came up to me begging.....boy did my wife come over and let into this woman.

U-Haul trucks. I think they are a magnet for beggars. Odds are you're an out of town. First off U-Haul has this stupid policy where you bring the truck back with the gas gauge at the level it was when you picked it up. Both times I rent a truck I got hit up for money. The first time I was bringing my daughter's furniture back from Texas A&M. This guy was coming from begging an RV owner. I gave him a stern look, shook my head no, and he said "thank you" and left. No big deal. The second time, however, (and this relates to U-Haul's stupid policy) was when I took my daughter's stuff to Lubbock. After we unloaded it I told my son "Let's take this truck back. I need to stop and put gas in it." I'm following him in his pickup and he jackrabbits ahead to the U-Haul rental place. So I stopped to fill it and even though I'm watching I'm also crawling up into the cab to watch the gas gauge. I stepped down and there's this dude speaking broken English right on my butt, not three feet away, sticking his hand out for me to shake it. He must have been watching for the moment to catch me off guard. He had this purple purse hanging from his neck big enough to hold a pocket pistol, 'bout the same size and shape as a cellphone holster. I put my hands up and said "I ain't giving you any money." Then I noticed he had come from a shinny new red pickup parked with 3 others sitting in it. It made me wondering if they had followed me to the station and parked there. I gave my son a lecture on sticking together.

Similarly, I know a woman, who has her CHL. She had left Wal-Mart and walked to her new F-350 pickup. She put her bags in the truck, stepped down and turned around to find this guy right on her butt. His story? He wanted to know if he could take her pickup to the car wash and clean for a few dollars more while she went shopping inside. She thought he had intended to steal her purse when her back was turned.