2019-08-07 at 4:13 AM UTC
gadzooks
Dark Matter
[keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
I'm out in my old hood Just sippin' and chillin'.
This random dude comes up to me, so I pull my earphones out to be polite.
He starts spewing out this whole story about how he's "stranded and just needs a few bucks to get back home".
Halfway through his sob story I'm holding in a chuckle.
Once he's finished, I immediately jump into it...
"Dude, what about a dude sitting on a couple wooden pallets in a dark alley, sipping something out a brown paper bag, says payday to you?"...
Me still: "you're grifting, and I get it, I used to be a grifter myself (of sorts). First off, the whole ' I'm stranded and need to get back to X city just out of arms reach' thing... it's transparent as shit... Then you ask for a specific amount of money like $23 even? Step your game up. Or don't. I don't do this shit anymore because conning people is wrong..."
Him: "I'm being for raelz tho".
Me: "no. You're not. Maybe you happen to be in an incredibly rare situation, but the way you approached me was entirely too fluid and your whole speech sounded entirely too rehearsed".
I then just told him that:
1. Right now, I barely got enough money to support my drink habit.
2. Even IF I had enough, your whole spiel is just off.
2019-08-07 at 4:35 AM UTC
Nil
African Astronaut
[the overexcited four-footed chanar]
whats with the van area and people with bullshit sob stories? like i had it happen to me when i was there.
the irony of an english guy begging from a native did amuse me tho.
I had a surreal encounter in teh ghetto the other day zooks, a guy on a bmx was coming up behind me and asked if i wanted to buy a bunny. I had to ask "a rabbit?" he stops and hold out this bunny which was cute af tbh. but i had neither 15 dollars or the inclination to purchase it
2019-08-07 at 4:42 AM UTC
Sudo
Black Hole
[my hereto riemannian peach]
There was a black couple when I lived in a town with no black people who would always jump out of the bushes in a specific park downtown and ask for a specific and usually prime number. Would see one of them at a time and learned they were a couple from others. I never gave them anything but it was just weird how they just hung out in a park and asked for specific denominations of currency then would probably meet later and discuss which numbers were most profitable
