Another panhandler's sob story debunked

I enjoy that story!

 

Had a business casual guy ask me for money to buy some fixaflat for his car just the other day at the fuel island. I happened to have a can in my walmart roadside emergency kit, & went to retrieve it from under my bunk. "nevermind" he says and walks to the next truck...

 

Whenever I get the, "I need money for gas" story. I always tell them I wil put $5 or $10 these days in their tank, I won't hand over the cash. Only once did someone take me up on it. I kept my word and put the gas in their car.

 

last time it was a couple that was claiming their car ran out of gas on the off-ramp on the other side of the interstate....

"Sorry to hear that. I just got off on that off-ramp and there was no car there. So either you are not telling me the full story or your car has already been towed."

He just turned around and walked away.

 

The best one I saw was a guy in Vegas. Had a sign that read "Why Lie, I Need Money For Beer"

 

To maintain the perspective of the thread and in our sometimes miserable trucker lives ...
[video=youtube_share;0rO0BHSPXQg]http://youtu.be/0rO0BHSPXQg[/video]

 

lol reminds me of when a lizard knocked on my door and i said yea sure hop on in.
I give her some rags,window cleaner and some dash cleaner and said it needs a good work over
Well it didnt take about 5 secs for her to hit the door

 

I handed $20 to a guy standing on the corner of an intersection the other day.

Of course he was a firefighter with his whole crew out there doing the fill the boot campaign, so as a former firefighter myself I felt the need to gladly hand him my hard earned cash.

 

We use to have a guy in my home town who would stand out side asking for money. I always felt bad for him but never really had money to give him. Than one day I saw him walking down the road and turned around to go pick him up and give him some money and a hot meal. as I got close to him he walked behind walmart and opens the door to a vete and starts to change his clothes. I sat and watched and after he got changed I pull up by him and say hi when he put the key in and started it up and told me have a good day....go figure...