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10-12-2007, 10:09 AM
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[ QUOTE ] 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? [/ QUOTE ] Standard? No! But more interestingly is what are you trying to say with your post, and many answers to it, btw? That homeless should not attempt to have a balanced, or suitable, diet? [/ QUOTE ] LOL yes thats what this thread is about. 
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#33
10-12-2007, 11:52 AM
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Standard? No! But more interestingly is what are you trying to say with your post, and many answers to it, btw? That homeless should not attempt to have a balanced, or suitable, diet? [/ QUOTE ] I was just kinda taken aback that I come out of grocery store with like 5 bags of groceries, homeless older woman asks for money to get something to eat, I offer her something to eat, and she refuses and rides off before I can even offer her something else. I mean if she was really hungry I had like a 2 pound bag of raisins that were on sale, she could have had that, and they would have kept too, not gone bad.
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#34
10-12-2007, 01:49 PM
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If this person is or is not a homeless person is in fact trivial to the discussion at hand, [/ QUOTE ] No its not. What if the person was schizophrenic or had some other psychological problem? This guy was implying by his remarks that the person was a drug addict. I live in Las Vegas. I encounter lots of needy people. They are needy for lots of reasons. When someone asks me for a hand out I give them something. I figure that in most cases they are in pretty bad shape to have to beg for something. What I dont do is critisize them without knowing why they are begging. So yes I took your remarks as in insult. Just the way you said them implied that to me. pokervintage
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#35
10-12-2007, 04:02 PM
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Re: homeless person encounter
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[ QUOTE ] Standard? No! But more interestingly is what are you trying to say with your post, and many answers to it, btw? That homeless should not attempt to have a balanced, or suitable, diet? [/ QUOTE ] I was just kinda taken aback that I come out of grocery store with like 5 bags of groceries, homeless older woman asks for money to get something to eat, I offer her something to eat, and she refuses and rides off before I can even offer her something else. I mean if she was really hungry I had like a 2 pound bag of raisins that were on sale, she could have had that, and they would have kept too, not gone bad. [/ QUOTE ] OK, so when I made my first reply, there was some doubt as to wether OP had forgotten some of the detail that would have made the other person reasonable in her claim of intollerance. This post just vindicates my original thoughts. In addition, to what others have added. a couple of people have said about food being easy to come accross. FACT. I have rolled into many cities in Europe with nothing. Nothing. No food, money or place to stay. Not allways as what most people would describe as a 'homeless' person, although I usually was. I allways had/found work, and paid my way, but people would often ask how I could live that way. my reply was always the same. "A young, physically and mentally healthy person, with any common sense at all will never die of starvation or hyporthermia in a 1st world city." (Obviously freak accidents etc are an exception...)
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#37
10-12-2007, 04:50 PM
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Re: homeless person encounter
There are 2 main routes that I used, although there are numerous others.
The first was just to find the bussiest area of a city, at night, if you walk for a while you will find other homeless people, and they will know all the scheduled (And non scheduled) places where you are welcome to eat for free. There are numerous soup kitchens etc, and so long as you look scruffy enough you will be told where they are. Please remenber though that I never said it was easy, I just said you wouldn't starve. The other way I did it allot was very simple, if illegal. It required that you looked either fairly tidy, or that you were employed. If you wear steel toe capped boots eg, you can look scruffy AND employed if it is ~1pm or 5pm walking into a superstore. (Lunchbreak and after work) Simply grab a trolley and fill it like you would if you were a real shopper, once it is 1/2 full, carry on walking round filling it, but be munching on stuff from the deli, or pies as you go. When you are full, simply leave the trolley and walk out. This is clearly unethical, but we are not talking about that. I suppose that option 2 is the 'easiest' to ask you question. I could go on forever about what you need to look out for, or other methods of attaining food, like fishing/trapping, and raiding vegetable patches etc.....
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#38
10-12-2007, 04:52 PM
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Re: homeless person encounter
(I genuinely answered your post, foal, as it was asked. I know this additional post looks like a set up, but it is not.)
Just made that post, and after I hit 'post' I realised, "Begging for food never even crossed my mind while making that post!"
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