Originally Posted By: Chris142
There's always one at the gas station and another in the shopping center parking lot. Went out this morning to get some last minute things and to ck on the shop. I got hit up for gas or money 5x between the gas pumps and the building.
Funny how these people asking for gas to get to moms house were not dressed for thanksgiving.
In my younger days when I was a pool player on the road I traveled with this guy who dressed like a million bucks. We stopped in every major rest stop across the US from San Francisco to New York city. This guy would get out of the car, tell some story, ask for help and never once used the word money. He said never using the word money was key...people would rather give you money instead of taking time out to help someone. He was right, he made on average $ 300 an hour asking for help.
One day we were in this rest area in New Mexico. This old man got out of his motor home that was parked in the back corner. He said his wife had just cooked a big lunch and asked if we'd like to join them so we did. After an hour of eating and his stories about being in the LA PD for thirty years he pulled out this gun and said it was his service revolver and it never let him down. He said he felt good about what he was doing, we thought he was going to feel good about killing us then he asked his wife how many ? and she said 47...the old man said he felt good keeping us cooped up for an hour because he saved 47 motorist from being scammed. He opened the door, let us out, then with his revolver saluted us and said have a good day boys.
Originally Posted By: skyactiv
NEVER give money to someone in this situation. All your doing is giving money for them to prolong a drug addiction.
I'm sure some are drug addicts, a few do need help, and many are just in it for the scam....