re: Begging around Baton Rouge

Last week a lady came up asking for money. I told her sorry, no cash. She said completely seriously, "that just don't make no sense. You need to carry cash to help people. That's stupid." It made me bust out laughing in her face until she left.

I did fall for an old guy inside Trader Joe's that got me when I wasn't thinking. See I am on my guard outside of the store but inside I am thinking what I need and I have children with me most of the time.

So he immediately compliments my children then ask if I go to church, which of course is a red flag because he is trying to see if I am a gullible person. So I say yes because I am not thinking and he immediately launches into a sob story. The guy looks legit so I say I don't mind buying him some food. I have often said if they are legit I will go the food route for anyone. Well he starts piling the buggy high with all sorts of things. He got greedy. Luckily the manager comes and shoos him out and takes all the stuff he put in out of my buggy and apologizes for it. It really pissed me off because I would have gladly helped him but he was just scamming me.

So, moral is beware both inside and outside of stores. Now they are doing both.

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So, moral is beware both inside and outside of stores. Now they are doing both.

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Happened to me at Lowe's. I had some wire shelving in my cart to put up in the laundry room and a clean-cut European American male, about 30 years old, comes up to me and asks if I need help installing them. Says he'll do all of them (4) for $100.

I laughed and said no, I was completely capable of putting them up myself. He then asked me if there was anything else he could do for me for $100.

I didn't know what to say. I knew he was propositioning me but I was speechless. I managed to get out a curt no and walked away. I probably should have reported him at customer service.

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Had a white dude in slacks and a polo come up to me at Chick-fil-A the other week. Started off asking if I went to catholic bc “back in my day I was ok the swim team and used to destroy those catholic high boys” then went in to how he graduated from LSU with a masters and is in town every other week selling medical devices to hospitals. Finally, after trying to trash talk me about swimming, bragging about his awesome job and masters degree, he asked me for $20 to get gas.

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This same guy approached me about 2 weeks ago at chick-fil-a on airline near highland. Same exact story. Dude was in his late 40's/early 50's? Seemed legit at first then it quickly became obvious he was a pro.

This shite is nothing new.
Winter 1994 I'm working at Outback On Acadian taking out the trash one night. Dude comes across that little walking bridge from the office building with a sob story, saying he was mugged and beaten on his way to bus station. He had a nice bump on back of his head he said was from the beating.

I gave him $5 and a leftover go-box with a big piece of steak and tater someone forgot(we kept them in the kitchen area before eating ourselves or tossing out).

Was not a month later, the same guy with the same story approaches me while shite-canned drunk leaving the Bengal. I tried to pummel him but thank goodness a friend talked me down while he hauled arse towards the police station across the street.
I was 18, drunk, and angry. $5 was a lot of money for a college freshman busboy. I Would have gone to jail that night. frickin scammers.

I usually take one of two routes:

1.) Yell out fairly loudly, “NO MAN I DONT WANT TO frick YOU FOR MONEY, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?”

2.) Say, “Damn man I was literally about to ask you the same thing, think you can spot a guy $5? Gotta get to the bus station”

Method 1 usually works fairly well.

I wish it was legal for me to get out of my car and put a fricking beat down on these lazy mother duckers.

Had an old drunk homeless dude with a mangy shite eater in tow get gruff with me one night while in the McD's drive thru. I told him he was drunk and to GTF away from me and he didn't like it.

Recently had a dude in a Popeyes uniform hit me up saying he needed some cash since he'd just started work and hadn't got paid yet. His ladyfriend was dressed nicely. I gave in.

I sometimes say, oh geez, let me go in the store, I'll back, will $40-50 hold you over??

"oh yes sir yes sier, thank you so much....."


Walk out talking on my cell phone act like I never spoke with them