I?d like to confess something. Deep down in my heart, I?m an evil man.
I have this policy that I don?t give to beggars. Nothing. If you give beggars money or stuff, you are basically supporting that lifestyle, helping them to live on the streets etc - and I don?t want to support this. (please remember, I?m speaking about Germany here - nobody has to live on the street here or be hungry - our national welfare system, social services and also a lot of donation funded programs can and WILL help anyone who wants it)
But that?s not the evil part (actually I think giving beggars money is truely evil - even If you just want to help them) now I?ve started giving beggars these:
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Tokens from a store ... of wich if you collect some dozend of, you they?ll give you little sample for free (or something like that). They have about the same size and weight as 1Euro coins. And are worth absolutley nothing. So far none of them noticed (too drunk to notice) anyway.
So Ive been praised a lot these last days from stinking men with beards ... and prob hated by the same men some minutes later.
It might sound mean, but most of the beggars are really, really annoying these days and like follow you for 5 min, telling you some stupid story how they need money for some good cause (while they stink of cheap wine and piss). I like to think of this as payback and a cheap way to shut them up.
On second thought, I?m not evil. I?m Jebus himself!