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The day I was getting my carpet replaced I saw 2 vans at different times drive up to my house and the guys asked me if I had some paint work or some other work that they could do.
During the past 2 heavy snow falls I could see 4-5 people in a car driving through my neighborhood to see if they can make money shoveling snow (and they did as I saw them cleaning one house about 10 blocks away)
In the past 2 snowstorms, I couldn't find ANYONE to shovel my snow and my car out. I have a postage stamp sized front lawn and walkway, but my 2 cars were buried and I have a bad back.
Professional companies wanted $200!!! to do it. I wish these people had hit up my road, it was about an hour of hard work and I would have paid $50.
Yeah~One time I did go in & tell the cashier to put $2.00 of gas in a guys car..but mostly I don't...
Yup, that's the way do to it if you want to help.
"I need money for food, starving" OK sir, I'll buy you a sandwich
"Need money for gas, can't get home" I'll put $5 in your tank
"Need train ticket home, stuck" Ok - I'll get you a ticket!
The train ticket deal, I was stuck once when I was a teen and someone nice gave me $10 to get home... so I'd help someone in that situation. I ran into kids asking for train fare by GCT a few years ago and said "Sure, I'll buy you a 1way ticket back" and they scoffed and walked away, lol.
It's horrible, yet funny, and possibly dangerous, but my line when anyone asks me for change or a dollar: "sorry, all I got is hundreds on me right now"
I've used this probabally a thousand times over the years, and the most popular reaction I get is the deer-in-the-headlight look.
The thing that got me is that the guy would sometimes be out there in the pouring rain when it was 40 degrees out and stuff..the guy has a house? Bizarre.
This morning I saw a guy standing on the corner of Route 83 and Horseblock road holding a sign that said Carpenter 4 Hire. The guy was white, so he may have been an American.
Maybe he is out of work or figures if others in that area can do that, so can he.
First time I ever saw him though.
WHAT a white guy there! that is unheard of! except for the ex military guy who always used to be there turns out her was lying and not ex military or so i heard
What is with that? The NC plates, I live near F-Ville and see them all over the place, I figured it was connected to the illegals, but how do they obtain them? Anyone know why the NC plates are so popular?
Because NC will register cars belonging to illegal aliens.
"I need money for food, starving" OK sir, I'll buy you a sandwich
"Need money for gas, can't get home" I'll put $5 in your tank
"Need train ticket home, stuck" Ok - I'll get you a ticket!
The train ticket deal, I was stuck once when I was a teen and someone nice gave me $10 to get home... so I'd help someone in that situation. I ran into kids asking for train fare by GCT a few years ago and said "Sure, I'll buy you a 1way ticket back" and they scoffed and walked away, lol.
LOL I was at the auto parts store by the Wantagh LIRR station about a year ago and some kid came up to me asking if I could spare a couple bucks for a train ride back to Lindenhurst. Coincidentally, I had taken the train from Wantagh to Babylon a few nights earlier but the conductor never took my ticket and I still had it in my wallet! I told the kid "I'll do you one better!" and handed him the ticket.....I wasn't that shocked when he just sighed and walked away, without the ticket hahaha.
WHAT a white guy there! that is unheard of! except for the ex military guy who always used to be there turns out her was lying and not ex military or so i heard
He wasn't. He pretended he had an injured knee but that knee would heal dramatically when someone handed him money. Of course after he took the money, he always limped back worse and hold his knee.
Then I saw him outside of Walmart in Setauket. Gee, he gets around good for a homeless injured veteran. I'm sure the hike from Farmingville to Setauket magically healed his left knee but in the process, he injured his right knee. It was funny, he switched knees in Setauket.
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