The beggar at Heuston Luas Station

pirelli wrote: »

I have signed up to several charities that DD from my bank Account. I dont give a fcuk about people that give a fcuk about their selfish problems but dont give a fcuk about anything else. **** that sounds like me.

I genuinely respect someone asking for help when they need it, that are not begging but are in a temporary rut. If I do help them it's unconditional and i dont expect anything in return and dont view it as begging at all. As for making a living from begging... it's better than crime, but I suppose pretending to be a cripple is dishonest especially if you do it every week. A once off maybe.

I remember I was unemployed once back in the nineties and the social welfare were more than three months deciding my claim. I was penniless and losing friends fast. My family were on holidays that month and i was desperate.

* edit* (I forgot to say that back then I felt people had more respect for people that managed without begging and I didn't belive in begging, * like busking which I tried once abroad* )

Back to the story...

I was getting very hungry and each day was an adventure ( i was hunting wild animals and vegatation) to feed myself. One day I found a purse/handbag and there was loads of expensive thing in it ( mobile phones..)
and I was too proud to steal it but when handing it in and checking the name a few pounds dropped out of it, I secretly slipped them into my pocket just enough to get some apples. I'm sorry I was starving.


The nexy day I found a check made out to pay cash of fifty pounds. The owner was a Miss O'Leary from dun laoighre and it was a pay cash so i could have cashed it, but I had felt so guilty about stealing the few pounds the day before that I presented it to the local bank branch.

Eventually I met the social welfare woman in tesco with her teenage daughter at the reduced stand where I was contemplating stealing a sausage meat roll and l let rip into her, explaining i was practically a vagrant scrounging for food. I got some £800 pounds in back pay alone that week with another check the next week.