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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 392575" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I have gotten taken a few times. I refuse anymore to give to the guys on the off ramps because one time I went and bought a Big Mac meal and took it to him. I happened to be able to see him toss it in the bushes before I got past the next traffic light. He still stands there and panhandles to this day.</p><p></p><p>Another time my mom and I were heading from VA to FL to see my grandmother. We stopped at a rest area to go potty. This young couple was there with the hood up on their car and some tools out. Car jacked up too. They even had a baby I think. They said the water pump had gone out and they didnt have enough money to get the part and still have the gas money and food money to get to where they were going. If we could just give them a little bit maybe some other people would too. Well we gave them ten bucks. Oddly enough, they were doing the same thing at the next rest stop we stopped at down the road! </p><p></p><p>Then there was this young kid, about 17 that I really should have had better sense than to have helped one night about a year or two ago. He just caught me off guard. I was sitting in McDonalds parking lot waiting for Billy to come out from buying us some food. He came up to my window with this really pitiful sob story and I could just imagine it being Cory in his position. I think that is what got me. </p><p></p><p>See, his girlfriend and he had had a fight and she had busted out a window in his grandma's car. She had also let out all the air out of the tire so it was flat and he couldnt get the car home from where it was left. He needed some money to go get a can of fix a flat. I told him I only had a dollar or two in change. Offered that. Oh...the store would take a debit card. Hmmm. So I said, well I guess I could run him to Food Lion and pick up a can of Fix a Flat, it was only 5 bucks. Well, we go there and he said, that isnt the right can...thats the normal kind for small leaks, he needs the kind for major leaks and it is 9 dollars at the auto parts store which opens in the morning. Would I just give him the 9 bucks and he would get it as soon as the store opened? Oh and drop him off at the house right over there? </p><p></p><p>Ok...by now I knew I had been taken. Where he wanted to go was a place you can get anything. I knew exactly what he was gonna buy. I handed him a 10 and dropped him off and said...SUCKER! </p><p></p><p>I also told him I knew what he was up to and that if I saw him again I was calling the cops.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 392575, member: 1514"] I have gotten taken a few times. I refuse anymore to give to the guys on the off ramps because one time I went and bought a Big Mac meal and took it to him. I happened to be able to see him toss it in the bushes before I got past the next traffic light. He still stands there and panhandles to this day. Another time my mom and I were heading from VA to FL to see my grandmother. We stopped at a rest area to go potty. This young couple was there with the hood up on their car and some tools out. Car jacked up too. They even had a baby I think. They said the water pump had gone out and they didnt have enough money to get the part and still have the gas money and food money to get to where they were going. If we could just give them a little bit maybe some other people would too. Well we gave them ten bucks. Oddly enough, they were doing the same thing at the next rest stop we stopped at down the road! Then there was this young kid, about 17 that I really should have had better sense than to have helped one night about a year or two ago. He just caught me off guard. I was sitting in McDonalds parking lot waiting for Billy to come out from buying us some food. He came up to my window with this really pitiful sob story and I could just imagine it being Cory in his position. I think that is what got me. See, his girlfriend and he had had a fight and she had busted out a window in his grandma's car. She had also let out all the air out of the tire so it was flat and he couldnt get the car home from where it was left. He needed some money to go get a can of fix a flat. I told him I only had a dollar or two in change. Offered that. Oh...the store would take a debit card. Hmmm. So I said, well I guess I could run him to Food Lion and pick up a can of Fix a Flat, it was only 5 bucks. Well, we go there and he said, that isnt the right can...thats the normal kind for small leaks, he needs the kind for major leaks and it is 9 dollars at the auto parts store which opens in the morning. Would I just give him the 9 bucks and he would get it as soon as the store opened? Oh and drop him off at the house right over there? Ok...by now I knew I had been taken. Where he wanted to go was a place you can get anything. I knew exactly what he was gonna buy. I handed him a 10 and dropped him off and said...SUCKER! I also told him I knew what he was up to and that if I saw him again I was calling the cops. [/QUOTE]
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