View Poll Results: Increase in begging?
Yes
21
70.00%
No
9
30.00%
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Panhandling, beggers
#21
05-04-2009, 02:23 PM
HaHa.... and they thought "Earthgirls were easy!" :clap: I don't even want to SUGGEST that the only "foundations" in Texas are RELIGIOUS ones!  Or that the only WOOD in Texas is.... "where WOOD that be?" :lol2: HaHa.... I KID Texans.....cuz it's so easy! But, I love 'em! I have a niece who was born there. She lives there now, again. She just recently had a baby...whom she named HARPER for some reason... and I love them both. I spent 4 or 5 of my most "formative" years there.... near the Red River. I discovered "wimmin" there!  :smokin::lol2:Texans are ALL RIGHT by me! (Heck, they're ALL "right" anyways!) :rofl: Hell, if it weren't for Texans, we'd have to make fun of.... um.... ALASKANS! :moon: Sarah Palin said: "I can see Russia from my HOUSE!" :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: Heck, MOST Texans can see MEXICO from their house! :hellno: Does anybody know why Texas IS the "Lone Star State?" I bet GMAN does! Make no mistake, folks. I KID Texans cuz I CAN! But, there is NO OTHER American that I would want to "have my back" than a TEXAN! It IS a special state. They ARE special people. PATRIOTS.... every ONE of them! Hobo :smokin:
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#22
05-05-2009, 01:31 AM
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Lubbock, Texas
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I saw the same dude on the same corner panhandling everyday. I was drilling out by the Police Impound yard and there are some abandoned building where homeless people crash. I would see him every morning as I was driving up...I'm sure the drillers woke him up. I saw someone give him some money one day when they were stopped at the light, then I saw him again as I was getting field supplies...he was walking to the flashy new Overton Wal-Mart. Maybe they just want to eat what they like. He wasn't buying a brush/comb or clothes. At least he was buying food at Wal-Mart and not at the Flying J.
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#23
05-05-2009, 04:08 AM
Yes. Our office is a double wide. It's not what you think though. It's just open inside. No walls, except for the restroom. On one end, is where the drivers have their desks, etc, and the other end is where the sales people are.
#24
05-05-2009, 04:22 AM
Our warehouse is right behing the flyin hook. Are you talking about that guy that always wears a pair of coveralls? No matter what the weather is, he's wearing his coveralls. He stands at the intersection of I-27/HWY 82. He's usually somewhere under the overpass right there.
#25
05-05-2009, 07:09 AM
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Posts: 1,027
Our warehouse is right behing the flyin hook. Are you talking about that guy that always wears a pair of coveralls? No matter what the weather is, he's wearing his coveralls. He stands at the intersection of I-27/HWY 82. He's usually somewhere under the overpass right there.
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#26
05-05-2009, 07:52 AM
It kinda looks like Willie Nelson's hair, except it looks like it's been a while since he's washed it. :lol:
#27
05-06-2009, 06:31 AM
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Posts: 1,027
That's him. Poor guy. But he's scary looking! I hate to drive by and do nothing but I figured he wouldn't want my Weight Watchers lunch or Powerade Zero...and I never carry cash.
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#28
05-07-2009, 04:35 AM
:lol:
Yeah, it's weird how he just hangs out right there. I don't think I've seen him at the truck stop.
#29
05-07-2009, 05:06 AM
Hey listen man, I got my family on the car, I just ran out of fuel and I am just trying to get home a few hours away, I lost my job and I am just trying to get to my new house so I can start working at this new job I just landed! Plus my kids haven't eaten all day, they are starving, I don't know what to do, think you could spare a few bucks?
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#30
05-23-2009, 02:05 PM
i give every once in a while, if i really believe the person, but most of the time i dont
if they say they need money for gas i will say yea ill fill up my jug and take you to your car...most of the time they say oh you cant do that....they probably just want liquor i grew up and live in the inner city ive dealt with beggers all my life we get the people who give u the card that says they are deaf.....theres a good way to test if they are really deaf but i wont say it, cuz i dont want to get banned on my first post
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