What does a homeless person need with a gumball or parking, dumbass?
You’re so full of shit.
I’m not privy to the street price of drugs anymore, but that sounds about right. That’s not the same price as a cheap sandwich, though – every fast food joint has a loss-leading “Dollar Menu” which can get you a decent meal for surprisingly little. Heck, 99 cents will buy you two Jack-in-the-Box tacos, which isn’t a bad meal!
No shit because that plus a couple of dollars could get him some food.
This is singularly the funniest thing I have read on the dope. Those dealers just love to give away drugs for old, cold burgers. Hell, I bet the Columbians have vaults of them like Scrooge McDuck.
ETA: You’re a shitstain.
And most drug dealers have a loss leading “get your first rock free” program.
Well parking could be where they put their car they live in. In which case fuzzypickles was providing them with ground rent on a place for their home. He truly is a generous soul!
It’s not my place to coddle his mental illness. Especially if he’s chosen not to help himself, and followed the easy path of drug addiction instead. Maybe in your bleeding-heart liberal fantasy world, everybody should give sympathy to crazy people and drug addicts, but not in the real world.
Seriously, Guin…have you ever dealt with drug-addicted, mentally ill people in your life, ever? Let alone on a daily basis? Because if you have, you wouldn’t be spewing forth such fuzzy, pithy, unrealistic statements. Try coming down to the trenches someday…it will alter your pleasant, huggy world in ways you can’t possibly imagine.
You’re missing the point of my analogy, jerk. Maybe MY one quarter won’t buy him much, but I’m just one of millions. My quarter is one less quarter towards his goal of panhandling enough money which WILL buy him a small cheeseburger & coffee from the McDonalds Value Menu; but NOT enough to get him close to a dimebag of crack. Get it?
'Tis true…but at least I sleep rather soundly. 
and it’s not his place to coddle your sense of entitlement. You think you deserve respect? I see nothing to respect in this thread.
Boo-fucking-hoo, he didn’t give you the reaction you wanted when you offered unasked for charity. Get over yourself you fucking moron.
The OP is pitting “THE” hobo, not “A” hobo. Sheesh, don’t you even read these things.
This is about Fuzzy and his bum. The fact that there are other bums around is irrelevant, Fuzzy has history with this particular bum, the important bum.
He’s a bum among bums, if you will. Sort of an “every-bum” who symbolizes bums everywhere with the gestalt of bummitude.
I like saying bum.
I can’t imagine.
Can we get back to using “hobo”? It’s so… quaint.
You get off it. It’s clear that yes, all money has value. A penny has value. Heck, if a person throws a bum just one penny every minute, the bum’ll be making minimum wage! It doesn’t mean that a person throwing a penny to a bum isn’t being a dick.
First of all, your idea that the only reason the homeless guy rejected your quarter is because he wants to buy presumably expensive crystal meth is laughable, and every time you repeat it it sounds more ridiculous. I’m not saying you’re wrong about his intentions, but you’re wrong to base your opinion on how he treated your ‘charity’.
Secondly, your perspective on the value of your gift to the guy is clearly wrong, or it would have been accepted. What you’re trying to argue here is, “a quarter is of no value to me. I gave it to a bum for whom it also seemed to hold no value. That bum is wrong about what the quarter should be worth to him, based on what I assume I know about him and his needs.”
Well, based on his response, maybe you have learned that a quarter isn’t worth as much as you thought.
Yes, in aggregate a whole mess of quarters is valuable. For you a single quarter is worth nothing. Even if it can buy you a gumball. Gumballs are worth nothing.
Because a), it would be more polite, and b), your premise #2 is completely wrong and unfounded.
What it comes down to is that the main reason a person would turn down a quarter is because rejecting it feels better than accepting it. Whether or not you intended to be, you were rude, and it was worth a quarter to this guy to show you that you were rude.
Huh.
The bum values a quarter less than what OP does.
I’m with the OP on this. The hobo should have said thank you, tucked that quarter away in his bindle, and then regaled the other hobos with the story of the rich man who needed directions when he was heating his can of stew up over the barrel fire later that night down at the rail yard.
In the Doctor Who episode about this occurrence, the Daleks turned all the unappreciative hobos into pigmen labourers.
Excuse me, you have a reading disorder? I’ve already said that he asked me THREE TIMES for spare change…what I gave him was NOT “unasked for”, like you presume.
Oh, I’m with you…it is perfectly within his rights as a human being to act disdainful. And it’s perfectly within my own rights to, based on that encounter, spit in the face of the next bum I see. Cause and effect, you see? My opinion of the homeless was very low before I met him, I’ll admit that, but at least I was willing to ignore my bias that one time…and whaddaya know, I was rebuffed. So now my opinion of those types of human refuse is even lower than before, if such a thing is possible.
But hey, that’s the downside of living in a free, capitalist society…there will always be drug-addicted freeloaders stinking up the outside world, and it’s considered morally objectionable to establish pogroms or eugenics to cleanse our streets of these useless meat-shaped blobs. It’s a shame, and not very logical, but I don’t make social rules. Maybe, someday, that will change – but I’m not holding my breath.
Did the clueless OP ever stop to think that the "bum’ might have been abused by quarters as a child?
Once you’ve ridden the rails for a while and listened to their stories and harmonica recitals, you’ll realize how wrong you are. They value freedom and camaraderie, always willing to lend a helping hand in fingerless gloves or gummy-mouthed smile. They are truly princes among men, the noble hobos.
Damn straight…like I said, it’s Brentwood. Clearly, the unwritten rules of panhandling are different down there. :rolleyes:
How is a gumball worth nothing? But the rest of your statement is true – which puzzles me as to the obvious disconnect in the rest of your argument.
Well, I piss on his sensitive emotions. If he thinks he’s entitled to more than a quarter, despite wearing ratty clothes and absolute lack of personal hygiene, then he is clearly living in a deluded fantasy world (irregardless of drug use) and deserves to be mocked and kicked and hassled by police like the worthless piece of refuse he is.
Who knows…maybe, next time I see him, I will give him a penny. Just to show what I really think of him and those like him.