This is becoming more common in my town. I just either feel like an ass saying I dont have cash, or lying, but I also can’t be giving out 20’s to everyone who asks.

I feel bad for most of them but at the same time I get anxiety walking down the sidewalk and seeing someone up ahead that I know is going to ask me for money. Its not like you can say “oh no, I donate to services that help the needy” because that person isn’t necessarily being helped by that. And ignoring completely feels so mean, plus I tried that one time and the person was screaming at me as i walked away that I ignored them.

I also dont want my city to round them up and send them to prison camps, something they are planning and that I know a lot of people would vote for just to “get rid of them” but im not supporting that at all.

Its tough.

  • muziriyaolili@lemmy.world
    41·
    19 hours ago

    I once experienced , in my 22. I gave out about 10 dol , then got keeping asked (i was too shy to reject!) so at last i gave out 50 dol, all what i took from school my college. bad grammar sry

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Here’s how Google translates what you said into Simplified Chinese:

      我曾经经历过，在我 22 岁的时候。我捐了大约 10 美元，然后一直被问到（我太害羞了，不敢拒绝！）所以最后我捐了 50 美元，全部是我在学校和大学学到的。语法不好，抱歉

        • waitaminute@midwest.social
          2·
          6 hours ago

          I would say that like this:

          I experienced this once. When I was 22, I gave out about 10 dollars and kept being asked (I was too shy to say no!) I ended up giving out 50 dollars. I took it out of the money I had saved for college.

          But you really did great and it was a good story