Thread: I love my city

Originally Posted by Elis D.

I live in a Buffalo, NY and there's a very high unemployment/homeless rate... and so whenever I hang out downtown I get asked to give spare change at least 10 times a day.
I hate when they're telling obvious lies, especially when I've seen the guy for the past 10 months with the same story every time.

But I love when I'm approached for money and the guy walks up and is honest.
"Look man, I'm broke, and I want to get drunk. You got any spare change to help me out?"
I'll give them change for that every time. Honesty is the best policy IMO.

I was at The Square last night and that happened I was with like 8 friends sitting in a circle smoking a bowl in an alley, tryin to get out of the rain, and we each gave him at least $1.50 which is what a decent 40 costs here.
So dude had like 15 bucks and he was happy as hell, goin off to get his bottles. On his way back he bikes past us again and says thanks and you can hear all of his bottles clinking so we yell "Have a good time" and shit like that, and he turns around, comes back and hops off the bike. I was kinda worried he was gonna try and roll all of us or something, but instead he reaches in his bag and he gives each of us one of the 40s and asks if he can join the circle.
This guy sat down and I passed him the bowl and we just sat and vibed over drinks and weed in an alley in the middle of a thunderstorm.
That was mad fun, until someone mentioned Michael Jackson dying earlier that day and he started to get kinda teary eyes, and he just sat staring into space for a bit. And all of a sudden he got up and thanked us for the conversation and the money and the smoke and then he biked off into the night.
Never got his name, or anything, but that's why I love my city. Cause I got tons of stories like that and it'll probably happen again next week.
Buffalo really is the city of good neighbors.

Well, that sounds like a nice experience, thought I doubt most people would give a guy who wanted to get drunk money.

I think that's awesome. I live for experiences like this... except I would've tried to get his life story before he left.

My brother runs into a bunch of homeless down on campus at Columbus, and like you said, many of them tell sob stories about how they're down on their luck and all.

But one day, on High street, he's walking by and a homeless guy says, "look man, all I want tonight is a beer and a taco. Can ya help me out?" My brother chuckles and says, "can't argue with that!" and hands the guy a five.



Lesson learned: If you plan on being homeless, tell people what you plan on doing with the money if you need to resort to begging. It's better than a sob story

That's so awesome.

That's a freaking awesome story, thanks for that~

Here in Brighton, England you only seem to get a mumbled "Got any spare change?" like they've been asking for weeks with no joy..

Seattle is a HUGE homeless town and after big games theres a lot of bums who have signs saying "will buy a beer" and they get soooo much money. My friends and I talked with a group once and they said that a lot of them now write on their signs they will buy alcohol because they get a lot more money that way lol

Great story =}

Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed

I think that's awesome. I live for experiences like this... except I would've tried to get his life story before he left.

I definitely wanted to. He was only around for maybe 10 minutes before he left.