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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Aug-21-10 03:27 PM
Original message
Woman approached me in store and asked for a dollar to buy a drink
Edited on Sat Aug-21-10 03:28 PM by Liberal_in_LA
It's about 100 degrees in the San Fernando Valley today. A woman approached me in the store and asked for a dollar for a drink. She said she was dehydrated and had no money. I said, bring it to the cash register and I'd pay for it along with my other stuff. She returned with a drink and a snack and said she'd put them both back if I told her to. As I paid for her stuff, she told me she works in care giving and only has 2 days per week and wasn't making it. She isn't making it on 2 days and asked me if knew where she could pick up more days. All the time she was talking to me she had her hand to the side of her face in attitude of despair. She was also embarrassed to have asked me to buy her the drink and snack.
sigh.... :-( :-(
also...guy across the street has all his stuff out, selling it.
He got a two fer in there. When one bounce just won't do.
Wilber_Stool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Aug-21-10 03:35 PM
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2. And they wonder why it takes six days to fill the pot............n/t
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Aug-21-10 03:36 PM
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3. Happens to me too
Just a few days ago, a young woman approached my car at the drive-thru. She pointed out to me what she wanted on the menu, so I bought it for her and handed it to her on the way out. I'm loath to give out cash, but I'll always buy food for someone.
This bouncy in a bouncy trend is a growing problem for DUmmy's who need to stand on the pedestal alone.
blue sky at night (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Aug-21-10 03:39 PM
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5. I am glad you paid for her drink and snack.....
I usually give to anyone who asks, I don't care if they are lying or not.
You're a moonbat. You associate with moonbats so there a excellent chance they're lying. Remember that liberals lie. All the time, they lie.
tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Aug-21-10 07:19 PM
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40. I feel the same way. Once in December a man and woman
approached me outside a Walgreens. It was freezing, with freezing rain and fierce winds. They asked for money for gas for their car. I gave them all I had in my wallet--it was just a few dollars. Nowadays, with an ATM card, I don't carry much cash.
Later that day someone told me the couple probably used the money to buy booze. I said that if they needed booze so much that they would stand outside in that sort of weather to ask for money, then as far as I was concerned, they really did need it and were welcome to it.
Besides, a young woman I know who has fallen on hard times with her husband and 1-year-old baby actually was in a situation recently in which she was stranded halfway between work and home because she had no money to buy gas with. She had hoped that the little that was left in the tank would get her all the way to work and back, but since she works in a different city, she ran out before she got all the way back. She was forced to ask someone at a gas station to help her out with a few dollars for gas. In other words, I know for a fact that this does happen to people. Fortunately, the person she approached at the gas station was a motherly type like me, and she willingly helped my young friend, without worrying about whether she "deserved" to be helped.
The biggest scam on the planet, and he fell for it. LOL.
CurtEastPoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Aug-21-10 04:18 PM
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25. Reading this thread...I'm so proud to be here among caring people.
I sit shaking my head, tears. But for the grace of God go I, as the saying goes.
I cannot tell you how wonderful you all are and how good it makes me feel to be among DECENT PEOPLE.
pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Aug-21-10 06:31 PM
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36. I saw a real act of kindness the other day myself...
A young boy who lives near a brother-in-law lost his dad a few years ago. My BIL has been trying to be a father figure to this kid since he lives with his mom and older sister.
A few months ago we heard that his sister had screwed up his computer that he uses for school, causing him to have to walk some distance to the library to use theirs.
Some neighbors down the road from us donated one of their office computers to this kid, and after Mr P cleaned the hard drive and installed a bunch of programs, it was all ready for him, and he was so thankful.
Well. The other day this neighbor stopped by the house. Mr P goes out to talk to the wife, then comes in the house, almost in tears. Shows me a $100 bill. It's for Jonathan...the kid without the dad...for school supplies or whatever. Our neighbors have never met him...just handed over the money for him...the wife said she lost her dad at an early age too.
Oh, and our neighbors who have given to a kid they never met?
Conservative Republicans.
Just sayin'.....
PULL eeze.
There's more bouncy's in this campfire than a sack of balls dropped on top of a hill.
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The "Fill the pot" thing is a reference to $kammer's whine about the slow rate of progress in the lastest DU fundraiser, Tucker.
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It's YOUR economy, moonbats, you idiots VOTED for this.
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It's YOUR economy, moonbats, you idiots VOTED for this.
BINGO!!!! :cheersmate:
You voted communist/America-hater, so you got communist/America-hater you douche bags! :bird: :censored:
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People walk up to vehicles while in the drive-thru? Guess I don't spend enough time at the drive-thru to notice this kind of stuff. I would never trust anyone who approached my stopped car and it's the same reason I drive around with my doors locked. We have so many people who beg for money in Las Vegas, it's hard to tell who is serious and who is doing it just to see how much money they can make on the streets instead of working a 9-5. If people were in that much trouble, we have plenty of organizations that will help them with food. I saw an Angel food mission (I think that's the name) truck the other day in our area near the Goodwill.
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People walk up to vehicles while in the drive-thru? Guess I don't spend enough time at the drive-thru to notice this kind of stuff. I would never trust anyone who approached my stopped car and it's the same reason I drive around with my doors locked. We have so many people who beg for money in Las Vegas, it's hard to tell who is serious and who is doing it just to see how much money they can make on the streets instead of working a 9-5. If people were in that much trouble, we have plenty of organizations that will help them with food. I saw an Angel food mission (I think that's the name) truck the other day in our area near the Goodwill.
I worked at a Taco Bell with a drive through. We'd have chased them off or called the cops.
I've bought food for a drifter once before. I'll never do it again. The second they were done eating they were hitting me up for more money.
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I worked at a Taco Bell with a drive through. We'd have chased them off or called the cops.
I've bought food for a drifter once before. I'll never do it again. The second they were done eating they were hitting me up for more money.
They ask for more and more. I never give them money to homeless people because they will buy alcohol and/or drugs.
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Things happen. Its not unusual for people to find themselves stuck in a jam. That being said a smart person wouldn't let themselves get caught in one where getting low on gas would leave you stuck in the middle of nowhere. I'd rather call in sick if I couldn't be certain of getting there and back. At least you would be alot safe then hoping someone gives you cash and not do something else that might land you in a emergency room. I also think that the DUmmies forget one thing. Conservatives give far more then the Dummies. and we give to charities and sometimes just to those we meet far greater then those leftards.
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Pretty bleak in the Obama economy.
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Pretty bleak in the Obama economy.
The new Obama campaign slogan...."Hope for Change".
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Wilber_Stool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Aug-21-10 03:35 PM
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2. And they wonder why it takes six days to fill the pot............n/t
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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HA HA! I still crack up laughing when I see this thread and this picture! :rotf: :cheersmate:
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Things happen. Its not unusual for people to find themselves stuck in a jam. That being said a smart person wouldn't let themselves get caught in one where getting low on gas would leave you stuck in the middle of nowhere. I'd rather call in sick if I couldn't be certain of getting there and back. At least you would be alot safe then hoping someone gives you cash and not do something else that might land you in a emergency room. I also think that the DUmmies forget one thing. Conservatives give far more then the Dummies. and we give to charities and sometimes just to those we meet far greater then those leftards.
No kiddin'! How stupid is it to likely get stranded on the side of the road in some God forsaken liberal blue city? Isn't it places like that, that Ted Bundy and his ilk hunted?
They don't call 'em DUmbass for nuttin'!
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Shameless plug: Be sure to check out my bouncy tale in the Elections 2010 section!
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Well. The other day this neighbor stopped by the house. Mr P goes out to talk to the wife, then comes in the house, almost in tears. Shows me a $100 bill. It's for Jonathan...the kid without the dad...for school supplies or whatever. Our neighbors have never met him...just handed over the money for him...the wife said she lost her dad at an early age too.
Oh, and our neighbors who have given to a kid they never met?
Conservative Republicans.
Just sayin'.....
You mean Republicans aren't as EVIL as the DU likes to say we are? How long before this person gets pizza'd?
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PJPhreak Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sat Aug-21-10 11:33 PM
Response to Reply #36
60. I live in a Very Conservative Area,
Edited on Sat Aug-21-10 11:33 PM by PJPhreak
As a group These folks politics are all screwed up.
But as Individuals they can be and are the nicest and most helpful folk I've met.
I just don't understand how someone can act so humanely one moment and so cold and evil the next
Diclotican (1000+ posts)
Sun Aug-22-10 08:23 AM
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89. pipi_k Updated at 10:13 AM
pipi_k
True, many conservatives have a heart, a heart,who is decent.. But they often work in the shadows, and are not known to go aloud around and comercial for what they do, they just do..
I know, as I have been helped, quite a few times by some friends fo me, who is rather conservatives, One year, when i was on some sorts of social security, and had no money to cristmas, they was given me a big basket with food, who must have cost them some money.. I was REALLY gratefull for it, as it made my cristmas week far more easy to goe true... They might not even know who gratefull I really was, but it made the rest of the year for me. its many year ago, but I still rembember it, as it was yesterday
And I try my best to help others, even when I dosen't have to mutch money in the bank.. A little actions of help, even if it just some dimes or roof over a tired head for a night.. That is often the difference between life and a missrable night... And you feel good after the deeds too...
Diclotican
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Ticonderoga (332 posts)
Sun Aug-22-10 11:12 AM
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104. Isn't guilt a bitch? just sayin. n/t
You're an idiot! Conservatives give out of their own pockets because they want to whereas Progressives want the Government to do the giving!
Red States are more charitable than Blue States:
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/12/generosity_inde.html
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HA HA! I still crack up laughing when I see this thread and this picture! :rotf: :cheersmate:
I do believe that Frank was the first to introduce this pic. It's still a good image of bouncy galore.
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So, I was in the Walmart parking lot the other day when this Wiccan (I know she was a Wiccan because she was ugly, dyke-looking, and dressed in black with a "my other car is a broom" bumper sticker on her Volvo) said she just had to have money for gas as she was on fumes. Normally she didn't go to Walmart cuz they're oppressors of womyn and poor people but she's desperate. She's just got to get a couple bucks for gas so she can get to her part time job at the woman centered bookstore cuz her health care premiums went up and she's got some undiagnosed chronic illness that's been plaguing her for years. Anyway, she thought she had money in the bank so she spent all her extra cash on black candles and a new dagger so she can perform a spell that will bring her Gaia's blessing...goddess knows she could use the good vibes. It used be much easier, just dance naked in the woods whilst wearing pretty ribbons in one's hair. But Gaia must be getting more conservative in her old age cuz the last time she did that Gaia said she never wanted to see the Volvo Wiccan naked again! Well, I felt sorry for the old hag and gave her a few bucks because what's the world coming to when even your goddess doesn't want to see you naked.
Welcome to the Obamaconomy! Oh, and then a cop jumped out of the bushes but Volvo wiccan was SO damned ugly, he jumped right back in!
Cindie
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So, I was in the Walmart parking lot the other day when this Wiccan (I know she was a Wiccan because she was ugly, dyke-looking, and dressed in black with a "my other car is a broom" bumper sticker on her Volvo) said she just had to have money for gas as she was on fumes. Normally she didn't go to Walmart cuz they're oppressors of womyn and poor people but she's desperate. She's just got to get a couple bucks for gas so she can get to her part time job at the woman centered bookstore cuz her health care premiums went up and she's got some undiagnosed chronic illness that's been plaguing her for years. Anyway, she thought she had money in the bank so she spent all her extra cash on black candles and a new dagger so she can perform a spell that will bring her Gaia's blessing...goddess knows she could use the good vibes. It used be much easier, just dance naked in the woods whilst wearing pretty ribbons in one's hair. But Gaia must be getting more conservative in her old age cuz the last time she did that Gaia said she never wanted to see the Volvo Wiccan naked again! Well, I felt sorry for the old hag and gave her a few bucks because what's the world coming to when even your goddess doesn't want to see you naked.
Welcome to the Obamaconomy! Oh, and then a cop jumped out of the bushes but Volvo wiccan was SO damned ugly, he jumped right back in!
Cindie
What!!! She didn't need money to donate to the Fall DU fund raiser, the most trusted, honest website in all of the intertubes?
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So, I was in the Walmart parking lot the other day when this Wiccan (I know she was a Wiccan because she was ugly, dyke-looking, and dressed in black with a "my other car is a broom" bumper sticker on her Volvo) said she just had to have money for gas as she was on fumes. Normally she didn't go to Walmart cuz they're oppressors of womyn and poor people but she's desperate. She's just got to get a couple bucks for gas so she can get to her part time job at the woman centered bookstore cuz her health care premiums went up and she's got some undiagnosed chronic illness that's been plaguing her for years. Anyway, she thought she had money in the bank so she spent all her extra cash on black candles and a new dagger so she can perform a spell that will bring her Gaia's blessing...goddess knows she could use the good vibes. It used be much easier, just dance naked in the woods whilst wearing pretty ribbons in one's hair. But Gaia must be getting more conservative in her old age cuz the last time she did that Gaia said she never wanted to see the Volvo Wiccan naked again! Well, I felt sorry for the old hag and gave her a few bucks because what's the world coming to when even your goddess doesn't want to see you naked.
Welcome to the Obamaconomy! Oh, and then a cop jumped out of the bushes but Volvo wiccan was SO damned ugly, he jumped right back in!
Cindie
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So, I was in the Walmart parking lot the other day when this Wiccan (I know she was a Wiccan because she was ugly, dyke-looking, and dressed in black with a "my other car is a broom" bumper sticker on her Volvo) said she just had to have money for gas as she was on fumes. Normally she didn't go to Walmart cuz they're oppressors of womyn and poor people but she's desperate. She's just got to get a couple bucks for gas so she can get to her part time job at the woman centered bookstore cuz her health care premiums went up and she's got some undiagnosed chronic illness that's been plaguing her for years. Anyway, she thought she had money in the bank so she spent all her extra cash on black candles and a new dagger so she can perform a spell that will bring her Gaia's blessing...goddess knows she could use the good vibes. It used be much easier, just dance naked in the woods whilst wearing pretty ribbons in one's hair. But Gaia must be getting more conservative in her old age cuz the last time she did that Gaia said she never wanted to see the Volvo Wiccan naked again! Well, I felt sorry for the old hag and gave her a few bucks because what's the world coming to when even your goddess doesn't want to see you naked.
Welcome to the Obamaconomy! Oh, and then a cop jumped out of the bushes but Volvo wiccan was SO damned ugly, he jumped right back in!
Cindie
LOL! I like it Cindie! :cheersmate:
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So, I was in the Walmart parking lot the other day when this Wiccan (I know she was a Wiccan because she was ugly, dyke-looking, and dressed in black with a "my other car is a broom" bumper sticker on her Volvo) said she just had to have money for gas as she was on fumes. Normally she didn't go to Walmart cuz they're oppressors of womyn and poor people but she's desperate. She's just got to get a couple bucks for gas so she can get to her part time job at the woman centered bookstore cuz her health care premiums went up and she's got some undiagnosed chronic illness that's been plaguing her for years. Anyway, she thought she had money in the bank so she spent all her extra cash on black candles and a new dagger so she can perform a spell that will bring her Gaia's blessing...goddess knows she could use the good vibes. It used be much easier, just dance naked in the woods whilst wearing pretty ribbons in one's hair. But Gaia must be getting more conservative in her old age cuz the last time she did that Gaia said she never wanted to see the Volvo Wiccan naked again! Well, I felt sorry for the old hag and gave her a few bucks because what's the world coming to when even your goddess doesn't want to see you naked.
Welcome to the Obamaconomy! Oh, and then a cop jumped out of the bushes but Volvo wiccan was SO damned ugly, he jumped right back in!
Cindie
Not bad....
No mention of "healing white light" or photocopies of hands (either yours, given to the Wiccan chick, or hers given to whomever for whatever reason) but it earns a 8.8 from the East German judge. :II: