Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

May 10, 2004

Panhandlers

Filed under: Society-Culture — Bunker @ 8:27 pm

I have an altruistic heart. Staying in Downtown San Antonio has about stretched it to the limit.

Every time I’ve stood out in front of the hotel, someone has come up to me with a sad story. Just now, a man asked if I had any change to spare. I didn’t. He then told me he just got in town today from Austin, and was supposed to start a job. But they insisted he have steel toed boots, which he didn’t have. I said most companies give employess some kind of help in getting them, and he responded that they had some worn out ones with duct tape on them.

“Whatever it takes until you get a paycheck,” I said.

“The left one didn’t fit anyway. I just need to get a couple of bucks to get a burger at McDonalds.” I told him I didn’t even know where a McDonalds was and he pointed out the corner about two blocks away.

I know downtown San Antonio pretty well, and couldn’t point out McDonalds but someone who arrived just today knew right where it is? Gimme a break.

1 Comment

  1. OK, let me see if I understand this correctly. The man needs boots so he asks for a couple dollars to go to McDonalds. If that’s logical, then he should say he needs a kidney transplant and ask for a plane ticket to Las Vegas.

    Maybe I’m missing the context.

    Comment by Interested-Participant — May 11, 2004 @ 2:48 am

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