You’ll likely see them at things like State/County Fairs, festivals, anyplace where having glass bottle are deemed a possible hazard.
Whatevs. It’s threads like these that make me shake my head at fellow dopers.
Fuzzypickle, I’m with you all the way on this one. Now, there’s always a chance the guy was mentally disturbed or not altogether there, in which case, you can write off his behavior to craziness. And you get to get it off your chest by pitting him here, which is a good thing.
What DOES suck is all of the dopers here trying to tell you that you’re an ass for not giving the dude more than a quarter. Seriously. A quarter is a quarter. Maybe if you gave him a PENNY, I could understand why he’d be insulted. But it was a quarter. Save up enough, and you can buy yourself something to eat.
Perhaps the uber-judgemental folks on this board could provide a breakdown for exactly how much money I should be giving to homeless people (if I give them money at all).
DiD tHat UP abovE. IT’s haRd to FiNd the RiGht aNSweR BeCausE PapER MonEy FluTTeRs, & YoU migHT HAVE TO TOUCH THEM!!!
Kruggerands chuck nicely, I understand.
I believe the consensus is that he an ass because he demands recognition and praise for helping someone, not because he only gave a quarter. At least that’s my position. Help someone because you want to help someone, not because you have an expectation of reward. If they scorn your offer, for whatever reason, scurry off. No big deal.
I second this, plus the fact that he tossed the quarter at the guy. Of course the street person could have had mental issues but if that’s not the case, I could see how, even if fp thought he had the go-ahead to toss the coin because he caught the guy’s eye, what could still have beena surprise toss (given he didn’t catch it), along with the amount might have been what bothered the recipient. For fp not to realize this could have been the case, makes him tone-deaf to the tenor of his action(s), and his demand here for respect and appreciation for his largesse supports that notion.
Yep, that about sums it up for me.
Then the consensus should go back and read the OP. He didn’t want praise, he was upset because the beggar sneered at his offering. Apparently this particular tweeker had met enough folks that think that a quarter isn’t enough to give to those who would rather take drugs than work, that the attitude has worn off on him and he sneers at those who don’t “give enough”. I’m with the OP - if what I give you isn’t good enough for you, then you obviously don’t need my money.
Why waste time reading the entire OP? The title itself and the following quotations are revealing:
[QUOTE=fuzzypickles]
**Dear Homeless Person: Show respect when I give you spare change! **
Instead of saying something grateful, like "Thank you"or “Blessings of Akatosh be on ye,”…
Not only did you spoil my Random Act of Senseless Kindness,…
[/QUOTE]
Sure seems like he was expecting recompense. The guy had no obligation to accept or even appreciate the OP’s unsolicited gift.
Mince, I don’t know whether you have met curlcoat here before, but I suggest (and many others will back me up) that engaging in argument with her might well be at best fruitless, and at worst, leaving you banging your head against the proverbial brick wall to make the stoopid stop.
Your choice and all, but be warned. 
Well, **fp **did later say that he wouldn’t care if the recipient of the quarter had said nothing. It was his scoffing of the gift that upset fp. So yeah, his OP was a little over the top with demads of respect and whatever, but I can see where he’s coming from.
His Money Bin?
I believe that fp stated that the homeless person in question here did actually ask for a handout. The information that is missing has to do with the actual exchange: how far apart were they when the quarter took flight, and whether or not fp paused at all or if he tossed it while midstride, which, in my estimation, could have affected the speed of the airborne coin.
Hey dimwit, read the title. He wanted the hobo/bum/beggar to SHOW HIM RESPECT!
I’m with Mince and mhendo
Well, I am an ass man.
That wasn’t directed at me and the person is banned, but I can’t pass up a straight line.
[Rodney Dangerfield] People always ask me what I am - am I a tit man, a leg man…I guess I’d have to say that I’m an ass man, cuz when I’m walking down the street, people always shout at me, “You’re an Ass, man!!” [/Rodney Dangerfield]
I swear t God, the longer I’m on SDMB (and it’s only been a few months now), the more I come to realize how endemic asshole-ishness is to the human species.
When I started reading fuzzypickles’ OP and got to the part where he describes his magnanimous gift of $0.25 to another person, and then his rage at not being “respected”, I knew I was reading a clever satire thread. Maybe a commentary on social activism, or a tongue-in-cheek critique of the politics of government entitlement programs…
And then it became clear that the OP was being serious. I wonder if there’s an entry in the DSM-IV that covers fuzzypickles’ pretentious megalomania? 'Cause it’s apparently pretty widespread.
Doesn’t ‘change’ mean “change of a Dollar”? Like, *“Can you change this Dollar into coins?” * You didn’t give him a Dollar’s worth of coins, you gave him one coin.
Also, when you buy something do you hand your money to the cashier, or toss it to them?
You won’t catch homelessness if your hands briefly touch.
Only after he got his ass chewed out.
No. An excerpt from Merriam-Webster:
People still hand money to cashiers?
No, but you can catch something else. It’s not a leap to assume that a homeless person has not recently washed his hands. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Tossing a quarter to a homeless person is not something to get upset about.
Small change bullshit. I just borrow my 4 year old niece and her puppy, rub a little dirt on em, park on the side of the freeway, throw my fake leg in the pickup and hop to the corner with a “Will work for food” sign and watch the money flow in.
$400 a day tax-free baby!