I understand why so many bums hang around truck stops now

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  1. swaggerjacker

    swaggerjacker Medium Load Member

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    That was really funny! LOL:D
     
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  3. rank

    rank Road Train Member

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    Lol I had that one at the travel plaza in New Haven, CT. I asked "Which car is yours?". So I walked over and told hubby to turn the key on. They still had half a tank.
     
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  4. mpd240

    mpd240 Road Train Member

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    If I have a little cash on me I will always give. If they lie to me and use it for something other than what they said its their sin not mine.
     
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  5. xsetra

    xsetra Road Train Member

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    Most times.
    I will offer to pay for gas after its put in a car.
    Buy a meal in the restaurant.
    Pay for a bus ticket using phone.
    Most times my offer is refused, the people just want the cash.
    My charity on the road is pretty much limited to leaving a tip for the waitress.
     
  6. nax

    nax Road Train Member

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    Hey there big baller....You will soon realize 6-figures is not thaaaaaaaaaat much.....lol

    Especially if you keep doing this....

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    and also old age will prolly make you look for skeezers to do this to you...

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    Watch out that scalding hot showers...they'll make your skin super dry and it will start itching and asking you to...

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  7. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    I do too. I tip the waitresses well. The shower attendant gets a tip. I will buy a meal for student drivers. Any student driver. I know how hard it is when you're trying to get started and they're having you live on training pay.

    "But Six, they have a job, they're not needy."

    That's the same reasoning the government gave my mom after my dad decided that he no longer wanted to be a family guy and left a 31 year old woman with 5 kids. They refused to help her because she didn't want to quit her part time job. These are the ones that need help the most.

    Which is better...to help a crackhead buy more crack, or help a waitress support her family? You bleeding heart scum will stiff a waitress, yet help a crackhead buy more crack. If that makes you hypocritical sidewalk sissies feel better that Mr Crackhead can get his high, so be it. I will continue investing in human beings and you can continue to help supply them their poison.
     
  8. A21CAV

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    Back when I had a steady schedule job I'd see the same guy panhandling at the corner where I turned left to get home. He had the standard piece of cardboard sign that said, " Need money for beer and weed. NO, I'M NOT A VIETNAM VETERAN. "

    Every time I was stopped at that left turn light I'd give him a few bucks. Part of it was for the beer and weed but most of it was for the second part.

    Frank
     
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  9. TROOPER to TRUCKER

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    I like honesty and have gave plenty of food and drinks handed our.
     
  10. cnsper

    cnsper Road Train Member

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    Two bums working the same corner. Bum #1 barely got by and lived under a bridge. Bum #2 is raking it in all day every day. One day bum #1 decides to ask bum #2 how he was so successful, drove a Mercedes and lived in a nice home in the suburbs.

    It's all in the sign he says and shows it to bum #1.

    It read... "Need $10 to get back to Mexico"
     
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  11. Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    And a more Christian viewpoint could not be better expressed.

    Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.



    And, you did notice that heart thing, right?
     
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