Homeless people question ?
 

So i just get finished eating out at a restaurant and as im leaving the restaurant, theres some homeless people sitting outside.. I had a runny nose and no hankerchief, so i pulled a $20 bill out and blew my nose on it , then dropped it on the ground.. Now im not so rich i can just go around throwing away money but i saw the homeless people there , i needed to blow my nose it served 2 purposes..

So anyways one of the girls that was with me started chiding me about blowing my nose on the money before throwing it down. like i was insulting them or something, meanwhile she hadnt thrown down any money , snot or not..

Keep in mind i didnt say anything or draw attention to the homeless people, although i did kind of toss it inthat direction because i figured , hey its christmas..

Obviously a homeless person would rather get a snotty $20 than no $20 at all is my opinion.. they prob feel "insulted" all day long

Anyways , was i "mean" and insulting or doing a good thing ?

This reminds me of Zango

yeah, you have very little humanity

use your sleave and drop the $20 clean


spaz

better snotty then shitty

its your money and you can do what do you want with it...

but question is, why would you do this sort of things...:disgust

That's just gross. Not that I'm believing it.

Yeah that was completely degrading to them man - They are already at a low point being homeless and dirty and smelly - Their moral is low and dont need some guy doing that to degrade them further. If you want to be a standup guy dont even give them money - Offer to buy them food

Respect is a valuable asset
Try using it sometime and you'll see how it can go a long way. In all aspects of life..

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they didn't have a restroom in the restuarant? WTF

Yup, or even get them a room at a shitty hotel for the night.
For all you know they have a substance abuse problem and will just use the money to buy more shit. The longer they are off it the better they may become. You may have just bought some guy a 20 rock of crack.

This thead kind of seams like bait though..

this is a joke right?

edit: looks more like a DarkJedi than SmokeyTheBear thread...

At first i thought it was funny ... but now it's-snot.

not to jack your thread but it reminds me of a one time when this guy came and looked at my Dad's car for sale and liked it and left him a deposit of $50 to hold the car for him. This was a non-refundable deposit as my Dad told everyone the car was sold and if the guy backed out of the deal, the $50 would cover the ad cost to run a new ad. The guy called like 2 days later and said his wife wouldn't let him buy the car and demanded his $50 back. My Dad was pissed on principle because he had made it very clear to the guy that the deposit was non-refundable but the guy said his wife was making him get the money back. Before the guy came to get the money, my Dad wiped dog shit all over it. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....if you ever wonder where I get my twisted sense of humor, now you know.

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classic L pink


I dont think the homeless person would be concerned in the least.

but theres not much real point to you doing it thats all.

we used to do the poo dollar... that was a lot of fun

Seems fairly low class to me.

I feel deeply, deeply sorry for you. You must have grown up being taught all the time that two wrongs make a right.

:Oh crap

Pray that Jesus will forgive you.

I agree that you should have given them the money clean, then it wouldn't have been degrading to them...would you use the money if someone blew his/her nose in it? I don't think so

lol . no joke ..serious question..

I should have been a bit more clear though perhaps. a few people are getting the wrong idea.. This was all very discreet..

I was at a nice restaurant , wearing nice clothes with other well dressed people ( point being it would have been uncouth of me to "rockat snot - asian style or ruin my jacket by wiping it on my sleeve ) I merely reached into my pocket and pulled out a bill "discreetly" wiped my nose as if the bill were a hankerchief and then dropped the bill instead of putting it in my pocket ..

I DIDN'T toss it their direction or do it to show any "superiority". But i will be honest and admit i "did" notice them and intentionally dropped it closer to them hoping one would see it. I could have just tossed it in the garbage.

The girl who noticed me do this didnt say anything at the moment until we were away from other people , then she said much like some of the people in this thread.. but she hadnt given them anything..

haha now thats funny, even the dog shit one

This is in vancouver , you cant just go giving money to every homeless person you see or you would go broke. Occasionally i will give people money if i think they are really homeless. But your kind of feeding an addiction at some level right ..I prefer to help people on a one on one basis , not random handing out of money.. too many con artists

I don't give any money to any charities unless they are for animals or kids. Adults can (or should) fend for themselves. The poor in America are lazy and unwilling to take advantage of the opportunities that are available to them, regardless of their condition. Many people that I have talked with that work with the homeless will confirm this. If nothing else, it is the easy out and a great excuse for not trying.

As a counterpoint to it, look at the people in other countries that work all day long picking trash to sell as scrap, or making jewelry to sell on the street. In India some banks give micro loans to the poor to finance small startups. Try that here and you would have a massive failure rate. There, almost all of the loans are repaid.

I have virtually no pity for the people on the street. This is (or should be) the land of opportunity, not the land of handouts.

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respect is earned , not established by being homeless. your confusing pity with respect.

I have alot of respect for alot of people. Someone i have never met doesnt instantly gain respect merely by the fact they are homeless..

Most of the homeless people in vancover are needle addicts. so what would you have done to show them respect ? Handed them money every homeless person you see ?

I am sure that one of the girls could haven given you a handkerchief....

p.s. for those who think the homeless people were "insulted" to be honest i dont think any of them saw me drop the bill , ( or they may have but just pretended not to incase it was an accident and they hoped to scoop the loot ) but i also wasn't paying close attention. like i said this was done discreetly.

If i had wiped my nose then handed it to them i could see the problem but thats not how it went down and i wouldnt do that..

I would like to hear from some other people how they might have handled the situation differently. ( besides just giving them money , thats equally as uncouth as far as im concerned and wouldnt have solved my snotty nose )

There's homeless people in Canada? :)

good point :thumbsup I didnt think of that at the time

It was one of those instant flooded with snot noses , that if you dont quickly rectify could blow all over your face lol.

lol tons they are like zombies

http://p.vtourist.com/1/1575990-Begg...-Vancouver.jpg

Actually isn't there some weird laws about the 'incorrect usage of money'?? Like, you could go to prison for doing that? I'm pretty sure some crackpot homeless man told me something like this....

your right, i misunderstood the whole disposal of your cash point.

blow your nose in a $20 if ya want and drop it on the street. it was just the implication of putting the homeless person with the money that had my panties in a bundle.

who cares if you blew snot in your own cash and just disposed of it. At that point if they see it and pick it up it may be unpleasant but so is having no money


spaz

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looks like a poor attempt at trolling to me :error

Why don't you use the $20 buy them something and give it to them if you think giving them money might go to drugs or alcohol…
The way you described your actions is definitely not a nice gesture and if you really just wanted to blow your nose then why drop the bill? Respect is for everyone rich or poor fortunate or unfortunate. Even if you have no respect for the homeless and you can say they put themselves there and so on ... this does not give you the right to be disrespectful.

This is just my opinion and Happy holidays!!!

It's either a lie or your as filthy or MORE. Have any idea what kind of germs are on paper money to put it up your nose? :error

lol that was the best post i read all day.

anyways, i bet the homeless people wouldnt mind a snotty 20 dollar bill, im sure they did or touched something way grosser for money.
i gave a bum 100 bucks the other day before i went to eat and when i was walking to my car he was holding a twixxer of jd heh

did you read through the thread ? the intention wasnt about giving them money. I have and do..

I thought i had explained that , i didnt want a snotty bill in my pocket, i was dressed nice .. if i was dressed all shabby i would have picked up a snotty bill from someone who had done the same thing..
i totally agree . you fail to mention how i "disrespected" anyone.. nor how you would have done things differently.
i didnt say that nor would i .
no offense taken.. happy hollidays..

insulting in a sense that you blew in a 20$ bill and throw it away to the direction of that poor people...that was...i mean errkkk...
or maybe you should bought a tissue paper worth 20$ bill...
:( :( :(

If it wasn't done visibly for the entire surrounding area to notice, I don't see a problem with it.

I think it would have been silly for you to take that $20 & toss in a garbage for the sake of being politically correct when another person could easily wipe it, if it meant his/her only meal of the day. It could easily have been misinterpreted from any homeless person, but I don't think they would turn it down if it meant their only meal of the day or worse, their next fix.


**EDIT: Either way it's gross LMAO (I would have gone back in and asked for a tissue)

should i have thrown it in the opposite direction ? or in the garbage ? I'm not being mean im just asking , it is a valid answer , i could have done that.

well duh , they dont have tissue paper salesmen outside of the restaurant or i would have done that..

If i HAD remebered to bring a hankerchief i wouldnt have had the problem and the homeless people would be out $20 during the holidays.. thats hardly a solution.. it is a possible scenario though.. and that could have happened but it didnt , its easy to speculate on scenario's that could have exisited under ideal circumstances but dont apply..

If you had been in the same scenario , your out with some people , at a nice restaurant, a few of the people you dont know very well , as your leaving a huge snotball wells up in your nose and threatens to splat all over your face.. what would you have done differently.. besides going back in time and placing objects in your pockets that arent there.. you have a nice clean sleeve , some money in your pocket , fingers and thats about it.. .

exactly.. i think alot of people look at it as if i was looking to donate some money and as an afterthought i blew my nose. this is not the case..

I "DISCREETLY" wiped my nose with it and dropped it on the ground as if i was putting it in my pocket..

I would think most people should understand that there was no malice involved on my part , the fact they were there was just an afterthough , but like i said i was being honest i dropped the bill on their side on purpose so they might see it and pick it up.. but only after i had already made a plan to blow my nose on a bill and dispose of it..

Disrespecting them is basically when you do not want to keep a dirty bill in your pocket then I don?t think it is fair to give it to them all dirty. He is a person the same as yourself. My suggestion would be in this case to maybe keep the bill in your hand and wait till you are inside to wipe it clean then come back out and give it to them. I see a lot of homeless people every day and trust me if I gave each one of them money I would be broke by now.

Hopefully you never get sick otherwise you'll be broke. :upsidedow

No, your behavior was perfectly acceptable.

However, you should realize that the $20 bill which you touched to your face was probably in some sweaty stripper's nasty, feces-encrusted asscrack last week.

Find this guy https://youtube.com/watch?v=rB8BdRNVnEI and ask him. He has interesting ... theories.
(including asking for not too much...)

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That is fuckin funny right thar :1orglaugh

Money is money, I am sure they were just happy to find a twenty!

i was leaving the restaurant.. that wasnt an option. and no im not wiping snot off a bill so i can give it to someone i dont know , as i explained.. i dont feel comfortable giving away money for free to someone i dont know.. i could have thrown it away , i gave them the option.if i had shoved it in their hand it wouldnt be optional , but i didnt.

So your telling me you would stand there with a snot covered 20 in your hand walking with your friends leaving a restaurant ? cmon now.. its one thing to comment , its another to be unrealistic.

It wasnt a "he" it was several people , and i dont know they are "the same as myself" they could be blood thirst killers with no morals..


Please try to "realistically" put yourself in my shoes and explain what you would have done differently..

Remember your "LEAVING" a restaurant.. snot is building up in your nose.. you have several options.. blow it all over your face, use your sleeve and ruin your jacket or use the $20 , from there you again have several options.. toss the bill away from the homeless so as not to disrespect them with some free money during the holidays.. toss it near them or throw it in the garbage. ?