When I worked downtown I was often approached by people asking for money because they were hungry. Made it a habit to never refuse but always offer to buy them food rather than give them cash. Probably 75% of the time they’d end up turning me down because they wanted the cash instead. Several times they went with me to the restaurant or other food vendor, the whole time walking there trying to convince me to not waste my time and just give them the cash. A few times I ended buying food only to have them disappear and not even take it, and then I’d just give it to some random homeless guy I’d find, and that was always appreciated.
I use to never see the issue. I have a homeless dude 20 bucks and he asked me to buy him lunch instead because the place didn’t take cash.
I never thought about it since I don’t use cash much. So yeah it sunk in
Glad you helped somebody and he was truly hungry.
When I worked downtown I was often approached by people asking for money because they were hungry. Made it a habit to never refuse but always offer to buy them food rather than give them cash. Probably 75% of the time they’d end up turning me down because they wanted the cash instead. Several times they went with me to the restaurant or other food vendor, the whole time walking there trying to convince me to not waste my time and just give them the cash. A few times I ended buying food only to have them disappear and not even take it, and then I’d just give it to some random homeless guy I’d find, and that was always appreciated.