homeless person encounter

PLOlover · #1 10-10-2007, 09:36 PM

so anyway I come out of the grocery and a homeless old lady rides up on a bicycle (pretty cool I thought for a homeless to have a bike, I mean it was a really crummy bike but good for gettting around), and asks me for change or whatever, and since it was a woman and she was real skinny and since bread was on sale if you bought 2 loaves I had 2 loaves and so I offered her a loaf of bread, she said ok, I kinda shifted and one bag opened and I was like take it, she looked at me and said is that wheat, I said yes (hello, it's bread), and she said oh I can't eat wheat (she elaborated a tiny bit but I can't remember), and pedaled off.

standard?

MaxWeiss · #2 10-10-2007, 09:48 PM

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so anyway I come out of the grocery and a homeless old lady rides up on a bicycle (pretty cool I thought for a homeless to have a bike, I mean it was a really crummy bike but good for gettting around), and asks me for change or whatever, and since it was a woman and she was real skinny and since bread was on sale if you bought 2 loaves I had 2 loaves and so I offered her a loaf of bread, she said ok, I kinda shifted and one bag opened and I was like take it, she looked at me and said is that wheat, I said yes (hello, it's bread), and she said oh I can't eat wheat (she elaborated a tiny bit but I can't remember), and pedaled off.

standard?

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Uh, your looking for the science forum. This is the theist/atheist argument forum. Also, no, it's not standard, but not completely out there either. Still, odd story, I enjoyed it.

pokervintage · #3 10-12-2007, 03:42 AM

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This is the theist/atheist argument forum

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I thought that was the philosophy forum? Oh I get it theism/atheism are not philosophies.

Speaking of science, i wonder how the OP new tht a person riding up to them on a bike was homeless?

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tame_deuces · #4 10-12-2007, 03:56 AM

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This is the theist/atheist argument forum

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I thought that was the philosophy forum? Oh I get it theism/atheism are not philosophies.

Speaking of science, i wonder how the OP new tht a person riding up to them on a bike was homeless?

pokervintage

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Obv he couldn't know, but indirectly he made an ad hoc hypothesis that it was so. So if the person was in fact homeless or not isn't an issue we need to discuss, and nor is it important to the discussion.

pokervintage · #5 10-12-2007, 06:02 AM

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So if the person was in fact homeless or not isn't an issue we need to discuss, and nor is it important to the discussion.

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Are you the one who determines what or what is not important to this discussion? I'd like to know so that I know who to ask in the future if it is ok to make a comment.

pokervintage

tame_deuces · #6 10-12-2007, 06:11 AM

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So if the person was in fact homeless or not isn't an issue we need to discuss, and nor is it important to the discussion.

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Are you the one who determines what or what is not important to this discussion? I'd like to know so that I know who to ask in the future if it is ok to make a comment.

pokervintage

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If you feel a need to be insulted by a non-insulting post then by all means go ahead. If this person is or is not a homeless person is in fact trivial to the discussion at hand, since it was assumed she was - and most of the respective comments after that were about homeless people. If you can't see that, then harp away at it being all-important all you want - no need to ask me.

PLOlover · #7 10-12-2007, 11:50 AM

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Speaking of science, i wonder how the OP new tht a person riding up to them on a bike was homeless?

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it was pretty obvious if you've lived in a big city.

tame_deuces · #8 10-10-2007, 09:57 PM

If she's gluten intolerant then wheat can be really, really bad.

vhawk01 · #9 10-10-2007, 10:34 PM

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If she's gluten intolerant then wheat can be really, really bad.

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Yeah this was the first thing I thought of, its entirely possible she just cant handle gluten, celiac disease.

Which would REALLY suck if you were homeless, what with the skimpy menus at homeless shelters and the aphorisms about beggars and choosers.

hitch1978 · #10 10-11-2007, 02:49 PM

Man you guy's have a bad read here.

She wanted cash, not bread. You can't buy whatever she really wanted with bread.

If she's wheat intollerant she would never had just said, 'ok,' She would have mentioned her allergy/intollerance then, not after looking in the bag . I suggest that all she was thinking while you were opening the bag was, 'Oh crap, now I've got to ride off carrying a crappy loaf of bread... Hang on, I can say I am allergic.'