That reminds me of living on the south side of Minneapolis, where the panhandlers urinate on your bushes and then pass out from drinking too much generic mouthwash. Or the hookers give blowjobs on the porch of the house next door.
OK, each of those things only happened once in 3 years....
eta: There should be a PSA for panhandlers: Urinating on a guy's bushes makes him
less
likely to give you money....
eta²: And then there's the panhandlers who walked up to our car as a group of us got out, and then tried to pick up our suitcases (apparently to carry them to the door so we'd give them money). Um, no.
Oh, and there's the guy who stole my mail and demanded $10 before he'd give me the check he took....
I want my two dollars...
I bet if you go to Teppy's house and ask real nice....
I just had some guy call me a dumbass when I didn't respond to his greeting as I walked to my building (he was loitering in the darkened parking lot next to it, and started meandering my way as I headed homeward). No, the dumbass would be the panhandler antagonizing a resident who knows there's a squadcar parked one building over due to the recent fistfights at Happy Fun Dive next door.
In nicer news, spent the evening catching up with one of my best friends, who's in town visiting his folks.
Living in the Haight, I don't think I've gone a single day in 22 years without being panhandled, except the days I've stayed inside with a fever of 102.
Living in the Haight, I don't think I've gone a single day in 22 years without being panhandled, except the days I've stayed inside with a fever of 102.
Yep.
Favorite Haight panhandle: some punkish-looking kids asked me, "Can we have some money to buy drugs?"
I hardly ever get panhandled in Chicago now....
A few months back, I paid over 300 bucks in back taxes to the city of LA on a little known law that says if you earn any money on a 1099, you have to file as a business and pay the city taxes on income. There's a creative artist exemption, which I filed for, but "too late" so I had to pay all these fines and back taxes. I got my license and exemption in the mail soon after.
I just got a letter from the city saying I need to pay $2,335.98 for failing to respond...even though I went to City Hall and paid all fees and taxes in person and received a receipt and all the license paperwork.
Now, I have to either pay this, or send a written application for a hearing to explain myself...or, to actually explain the City's incompetence to a judge.
I am already hanging by a thread with the move and the job stress. This? Awful. It's just awful.
The summer I was in San Luis Obispo, my friend and I were waiting for a bus, and this guys comes up to us and asks, with huge deep breaths at each pause, "Would you marry ... and have children with ... an aging hippie ... from the Woodstock ... era?" We both declined.
That's awful, Allyson! If the world were at all fair you would be able to just mail in a copy of your receipt and be off the hook entirely.
Yeah, "Here's my receipt," really shouldn't require a hearing.
