My Recent Experience with a Transient

I interact with homeless people on pretty much a daily basis. I get sick and tired of being asked for money. When I first started working in downtown Indianapolis, I'd give the random homeless person money 70% of the time. Now, there's no way I'm shelling out my hard-earned money so he/she can get his/her fix for the day. I'm sorry, but those are my beliefs.

I went to the CVS across the street today and there was this homeless old black dude with hair that hadn't been cut/shaved in years and he was asking for money for gloves as his were old and battered. Now, I gave him money because he had the gloves in his posession and you could tell he needed new gloves. I obliged because it was cold outside. Sometimes you can obviously tell they're just going to spend it on drugs and/or booze, but this guy was different. But, most times I just try and ignore them.

I actually had this homeless dude talk shit to me the other day because I passed him without putting money in his cup. Fuck that.