I just started a job in downtown Chicago 3 wks ago. I see this homeless guy 2 or 3X /day right near my office building. I've tried taking different routes but he also changes his begging spot & I still run into him at least 1X /day. He said he's trying to get a bus ticket home to Virginia but my co-workers and friends said that's probably bs (he suggested I could "help him out" by scraping up $70 for the ticket).
Last week I went to the dollar store & bought him a few groceries. Today, I walked out of my building at lunch and BOOM - there he was right in front of my building (he didn't know I worked there - of course, now he does). I ended up buying him food at Panda Express & bringing it back for him.
He's never asked me for anything (not even really the ticket money) and he's always polite but I realize this is my problem and I'm doing it because I feel guilty but I cannot keep feeding this guy.
What should I do? Just walk by him from now on? Find a different route?
2007-11-09 08:17:25 · 4 answers · asked by Kellie C 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Well, you say its you, so he shouldn't get offended or mad at you if you don't offer him anything. If he does try to say something to you and you feel a need to explain, just say money is tight right now. But I wouldn't say anything to him about why you have stopped buying him lunch. If you think find a different route would help then do that. You sound like a nice caring person, don't beat yourself up because over this, you can only do what can and it sounds like you have done enough. You shouldn't do anything out of guilt only love and compassion. That is the best reward.
2007-11-09 08:29:36 · answer #1 · answered by Miss 6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the 1st time approximately 10 years in the past my chum & i finished and he or she gave him the burger she only bought fairly of money. that's all she had. while we've been given around the line he threw it at us swearing asserting he wanted money no F'n burger. final year, diverse city/ diverse chum exterior the theatre a youthful guy asked us for money, she presented foodstuff. He suggested he became finished the meal truck had only got here. He additionally suggested he had an condominium yet did no longer opt to stay in it, he favored the line. yet another guy suggested that he does not have faith he could EVER could pay for housing or foodstuff. Now, I only have faith in helping people who surely choose help.
2016-11-10 23:12:26 · answer #2 · answered by gurucharan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Say hi to him every time you see him and then continue about your business. If you feel guilty then keep doing this for a few weeks and you will slowly stop feeling guilty.
2007-11-09 08:24:22 · answer #3 · answered by heart6213a 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah find a different rute!
Did you hear about the true story
of this guy getting killed by
a homeless person. The guy gave the
homeless person food!
2007-11-09 09:43:06 · answer #4 · answered by Irreplacable <3 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋