I gave $60 to a homeless guy

One time me and my friends were skating around town and we came across this homeless guy right. So we started to talkin to him and he starts tellin us about how he hates cops who always bust him off of his corner and stuff so my friend decided to give him a dollar. Well my other 2 friends also gave him a dollar or some change. Well all i had was a 5 on me and i didnt want to look like a cheapskate so i gave it to him. I felt good and bad about it at the same time. So what if buys a bottle a vodka, he'll be happy for a little bit.

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Originally Posted by lemonboy

Last night I was going to Best Buy to look at video cards. I didn't buy one but I had a lot of cash with me. When I was leaving there was this homeless guy holding a sign about being Katrina victim and having a family of four. I doubled back and gave him $60. He thanked me in a kind voice. I thought maybe it could bring some comfort. A friend of mine said he probably found comfort in a couple bottles of vodka. Maybe so, is this so bad? There's no way to verify his story anyway.

I didn't feel much better about myself afterwards. I mean that wasn't even the mission but it was an expected byproduct. I feel empty and guilty about it. What's that about?

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the only truth you know is what he told you. you provided food for him and his family for another day. maybe the reason you felt down about doing a good deed is because you realize that no matter what you do, there will still be another time that he is in need. another time that you will not be so fortunate enough to spare him some cash. sometimes it's best to just live and let live.

I gave a drunk guy $10 at a gasstation cause his check card wouldnt let him take out money, he was with a friend. probably bought alcohol or drugs with it, I know how you feel, *Karma*.

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Originally Posted by lemonboy

Last night I was going to Best Buy to look at video cards. I didn't buy one but I had a lot of cash with me. When I was leaving there was this homeless guy holding a sign about being Katrina victim and having a family of four. I doubled back and gave him $60. He thanked me in a kind voice. I thought maybe it could bring some comfort. A friend of mine said he probably found comfort in a couple bottles of vodka. Maybe so, is this so bad? There's no way to verify his story anyway.

I didn't feel much better about myself afterwards. I mean that wasn't even the mission but it was an expected byproduct. I feel empty and guilty about it. What's that about?

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I live in a one-bedroom apartment...

Can I get, like, $10? Or, could that be worth $20?

When I was 14 I gave a homeless guy $2 because he said he was hungry and had no money. Seconds later my mom realized what I did and ripped the money from his hands only to say, "Get a job". I was very mad but I think her act made me realize that I have better things to spend the little money that I have on. Not all homeless people can just start working again, but now I don't feel bad because there's people out there like all of you to help these men and women. $60 may have been a bit overkill, maybe that's why you have that empty feeling. I would've stopped at $20 and felt great for being so generous. Actually no I guess I would never give $20 to a homeless man these days, but if I could afford to do so I probably would. :) Sucks not having a job, but think about this. What if you gave him $20 and just got him really high and went back a few days later to get him high some more? That woulda been cool too right? AND CHEAPER.

george bush sucks. the goverment should be helping our country. i hope when theres a new president things will change.

Thats a good thing you did. At least you tryed to help right? Guilt was either from the idea of you having more then he or that you knew you gave money to support a bad habit but either way you done a nice thing and that shows you have a good heart and thats always needed in this world. A few years back my oldest brother was up to Toronto living and he ran into this one homeless man. The night was really cold and he could see that the man was shaking. He gave him his coat and then went home and took all of his old cloths and even some of his new stuff and went down the street passing it out to homeless people. He also went out and bought some things of them. He even went around door to door and collected cloths and food to give out. It was such a nice thing for him to do. He even was on the news about it. It shocked our family because it seems out of the norm for him to do that. He said he never felt better before in his life then that day.

You act of kindness will come back to you ten fold even if he did use it for vodka.It is the act of your heart that is smiled upon in kind by the Universe..

hahah hes only gonna spend it on grog or smokes or something.

but what do u expect, hes a bum.


you just pretty much threw your money away dude.

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Originally Posted by 420kidder

$60 may have been a bit overkill, maybe that's why you have that empty feeling.

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That may be it. The thing is I could have given him more, though it wouldn't have been a sane thing to do. But I had $20s and I thought... how many of these would it take to actually make an impact? It was from some Christmas money I was just going to spend on myself. Thanks again.