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<\/p>\nWhen I was a kid, I didn’t understand that a lot of “homeless” people and panhandlers in general weren’t doing it because they were starving.<\/p>\n
There were a lot of them, and still are today, conmen and people just looking for money for drugs and booze.<\/p>\n
I remember about ten years ago my wife and I were walking through a downtown area of a city we were visiting and there was this homeless guy outside the diner we were eating at.<\/p>\n
She felt bad for the guy. So she ordered him a big giant breakfast, certainly bigger than anything I had ever ordered in my life.<\/p>\n
We took it out to the man who promptly threw it at us. He was clearly asking for money for drugs or alcohol.<\/p>\n
It’s why you have to be really careful about who you give money to, or who you donate to.<\/p>\n
That being said, there are some legit folks out there who are just going through a hard time. I have an uncle for example who ran a small business where he would need help doing odd jobs around his shop every now and then.<\/p>\n
He would from time to time offer to help folks that needed help by giving them a place to sleep in the back, and would pay them for an honest day’s work sweeping up and things like that.<\/p>\n
It really helped some people when they needed it, and there were some people that just wanted to be given everything.<\/p>\n
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Take for example the case of a man named Bray. Bray is a very fortunate man, owning his own remodeling business. He saw a panhandler on the corner one day and walked up to him with an offer.<\/p>\n
He would do the same thing that my uncle did that I mentioned a moment ago and having him do odd jobs and other yard work for his business.<\/p>\n
The guy stared cursing him out and began kicking Bray’s car while he was still at the light.<\/p>\n
However, Bray had a plan. You see, he’s like me. If people want help, they need to be able to work for it.<\/p>\n
Bray showed up on the opposite corner a short time later.<\/p>\n
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He had a sign with him telling everyone about his encounter with this ungrateful bum.<\/p>\n
I kind of sympathize with Bray here. I mean, if you are going to act like you want help you should take it in any manner possible…not just when it could score you your next fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I was a kid, I didn’t understand that a lot of “homeless” people and panhandlers in general…\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-viral","8":"cs-entry","9":"cs-video-wrap"},"yoast_head":"\n