Almost lost my cool with a homeless person today that asked me for a coke. I see this guy all the time at this Walgreens and he is always asking for stuff. The Walgreens doesn’t do anything about it. I pulled up and he was laying on the sidewalk in front of the door. As a woman, I feel scared going here. Tonight I was just absolutely pissed off. I lost a personal big client of mine that I relied on a lot and I’m struggling a lot myself right now. When I got out, he looked at me like, “well??”

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Pain is infinite. His pain doesn't minimize or reduce your pain at all. If he is truly threatening you call 911 or stop going there. If it is just inconvenient ignore him.

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I wish we could find the $24 billion that was supposed to be spent on solving the homelessness crisis in CA and build a small city near Vernon or San Bernardino where they can all be housed, recuperated and trained for work.

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Why do you think that is A1?

Sounds like you're having a really hard day. He's homeless though. Do you expect him to not ask? It's part of his routine. It's not about, "we all have hard lives". You can simply ignore him or tell him no. If he starts to harass you, that's another issue. But don't be a Karen about it.

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He’s the Karen…

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Girl… 🙄

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Ahh yes, hundreds of thousands of homeless in the richest country in history. Gotta love ‘Murica

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I usually don’t like when homeless people ask for money, but if it was someone I always see, and he asked me for a coke and I was going into the store already, I’d probably just get him the coke. Gotta put things in perspective sometimes. A coke would make his whole day and it’s not going to change my life at all.

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In Prague, the homeless kneel down with faces to the ground in shame while holding out something to beg for change. I’m not saying people should be ashamed for being homeless, but this guy clearly has lost all shame. There is a fine line between panhandling and harassment.

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I don’t think even him knew what was his point

Continued; in my head I’m like, no! Fff you. I’m not ur bank. We all have it hard. “ honesty maybe I was so pissed off/sad because I’m really struggling a lot right now myself. If it were different I’d probably be nicer but then again I’m tired of seeing this guy all the time here.

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If he just looked at you, walk on by. Are you asking whether it would be cool to rant at him for being there and looking at you in a way you read as expectation? No, of course not. Sounds like you may have given him stuff in the past. I don’t and this is part of. the rationale.

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I get it, it’s frustrating when you often run into people asking for free stuff. It’s okay to ignore or say no, regardless of how your day is going.

As a woman, you have to consider your safety. Don’t engage in arguments with them. Just ignore, or say “sorry, can’t”.

I tried to give a homeless a new bag of chips that came with my lunch, and he told me he wanted pizza instead and pointed to the shop. I said good luck.

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I live in SF. The easiest way to to deal is smile and say, "Not today, sorry."

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I probably would have bought him the coke.

Only another woman fully understands what you mean. Don’t listen to these guys.

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Just say “sorry I don’t have cash / sorry I have really less money on me”

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