# Pregnant woman who needs money for bus ticket home: You are awesome!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-woman-who-needs-money-for-bus-ticket-home-you-are-awesome/215775 "2003-11-28T21:04:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-woman-who-needs-money-for-bus-ticket-home-you-are-awesome/215775/41 "2003-11-29T22:16:01Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by gubernator \* > \*\* I feel sorry for the guy who got the two 5s snatched by a hobo, though._\* I’m a woman. \*\* > [@](#): > > Most of the tramps around the pitt campus are the more deranged/humorous types, not like the feral sort you were describing. \*\* If you say so. There was a totally different guy who, after months of appearing to be a harmless stoner, suddenly snapped and went storming around Oakland, hollering threats at everyone who crossed his path. He disappeared shortly thereafter and was never seen in the university district again. The thing is, you haven’t seen the other side of these people, because you haven’t said no yet. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-woman-who-needs-money-for-bus-ticket-home-you-are-awesome/215775/42 "2003-11-29T23:21:19Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t see why people think it’s bad to give money to a possible druggie, though. If they do drugs, it’s their business, not mine. Would you go to a pusher and buy their drugs for them? No? But how different is that from giving them money to buy drugs? In either case, you’ve enabled them to do drugs – drugs that are destroying them. > [@](#): > > As long as they entertain me, I’ll give them money. And if they’re merely pathetic, do you ignore them? Repulse their pleas for money? Don’t you feel even a little bit ashamed of being amused by the suffering of others? ---
**Author:** ![gubernator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@gubernator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gubernator)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-woman-who-needs-money-for-bus-ticket-home-you-are-awesome/215775/43 "2003-11-30T03:12:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Would you go to a pusher and buy their drugs for them? No? But how different is that from giving them money to buy drugs? In either case, you’ve enabled them to do drugs – drugs that are destroying them It’s different because it is a heck lot less trouble. And like I said, it’s their business they are taking drugs, if they are, and none of mine. At the end of the day, I don’t care about these people. > [@](#): > > And if they’re merely pathetic, do you ignore them? Repulse their pleas for money? Don’t you feel even a little bit ashamed of being amused by the suffering of others? If they’re merely pathetic, then it’ll be a toss up on whether I’m in a charitable mood. And no, I do not feel ashamed at being amused by the suffering of others. Cool story there, Rilchiam, I’d like to hear more about it, if you got the time to tell it. Interesting update to the pregnant lady who needs bus ticket home, by the way. I was out getting dinner, this time with a coat and my hood on. She ran into me again, with the same bus ticket story. Then she saw the face beneath the hood, and sort of froze. I smiled, said, “from yesterday, remember?”, and she just mumbled something quietly and walked away. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-woman-who-needs-money-for-bus-ticket-home-you-are-awesome/215775/44 "2003-11-30T07:58:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gubernator \* > I gave her all the changes in my pocket, and for some reason my headache ain’t so bad no more and she’s managed to cheer me up for the entire day, possibly for days to come. Hey **Gubernator** : Here’s a good idea. Why don’t you go to the bank and draw out all your money and send it to me! You’ll never have a headache again for as long as you live. Really! (what a fish) :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![gubernator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@gubernator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gubernator)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-woman-who-needs-money-for-bus-ticket-home-you-are-awesome/215775/45 "2003-12-01T03:02:56Z")
Well, for getting me to give you all my money in my bank account ( a whooping 200 bucks!), you’ll have to do something plenty entertaining. Like maybe dance around naked in traffic and then killing yourself in some spectacular, messy way. If you deliver, I will pay! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-woman-who-needs-money-for-bus-ticket-home-you-are-awesome/215775/46 "2003-12-01T03:20:44Z")
I also like the ones that will approach you in a grocery store parking lot and feed you this sob story about how their alternator died and they’ve almost got enough to get a new one but they are short only $26.17 (or something like that). I got hit up by the same guy going in and coming out. The second time, I faked a phone call to the cops on my cell phone where he could hear me, and you should have seen him hauling ass out of there. The dust didn’t settle for an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-woman-who-needs-money-for-bus-ticket-home-you-are-awesome/215775/47 "2003-12-01T19:51:17Z")
I used to work at a train station, next door to a bus station, in Boston. I got the same “I’m stranded here and my kids are in Arkansas and I just need $45 to get home to them!!” at least once a week, from the same woman in a tweed jacket, for at least a year. Sometimes I would give her a dollar or two, sometimes I would just say I didn’t have any cash on me. Somehow it still seemed more original than the bums who would just walk around jangling a cup of change. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-woman-who-needs-money-for-bus-ticket-home-you-are-awesome/215775/48 "2003-12-02T02:45:35Z")
“I’m walking down the street in New York, and this homeless guy comes up to me and yells, ‘Give me a dollar!’ And I didn’t feel like it, so he goes, ‘Bitch! I got x-ray vision! I know you got a dollar and niiiiiiiiice titties!’ " ‘…Here’s a dollar. Thanks.’” - Margaret Cho [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnant-woman-who-needs-money-for-bus-ticket-home-you-are-awesome/215775.md?page=2)