too close?
Last time I was in Miami (that's where they go when it gets cold) I must have had five or ten of these guys approach me. There were two lined up at the McDonald's drive thru.
Yelling at every one of them to back off just seems a little paranoid. I keep change in there for tolls. If I have a dollar or $.50 to spare I let them have it, if not, I don't.
Backfired on me one time about a year ago. I had a pile of cigarettes under my arm that I'd picked up off the side of the road- a truck dropped a couple cases and kept going. Some bum comes up to me telling me he just got out of jail and had some sob story, about how he got in there, how hungry he was. I'm thinking, what kind of idiot is this? I'm picking up road cigarettes, and he thinks I'm loaded with dough?
I had one hand in my gun pocket, I put the other in my change pocket, pulled out a dollar bill and handed it over.
His eyes lit up. God bless you! Aw thanks, man, I haven't eaten since yesterday, man you're the best, man, aw, thank God for people like you!
I looked and saw I'd handed over a ten by mistake.
too late to take it back. I figured I'd given him a couple quarts of cheap liquor. Oh well.
I tossed the cigarettes in the van and went across the street to Wendy's. As I was sitting in my van I saw this guy in the parking lot. I thought he was still begging for money until I saw he was hugging a wendy's bag like it was a lost child. Guess he really was hungry.