Money: Leave me alone

Leave me alone

By re2K5 - 25/07/2009 16:39 - Korea Republic of

Today, I passed a homeless person asking for change. When I politely apologized and told him that I had none, he yelled angrily, "Who comes to this city without money?" I replied, "Apparently, you do." Wrong answer. He followed me, now screaming. FML

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By HaliMali - 22/02/2015 18:21 - United States - Hastings

Today, trying to do a good deed, I gave a homeless guy a $10 bill. As I walked away, he yelled after me, "You fucking bitch!" FML

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By NoNaMe - 04/06/2009 08:07 - Australia

Today, while walking down the street, a homeless man walked up to me. He opened his mouth to say something and I immediately said that I didn't have any spare change because I was late for work. He then said "I was gonna ask you for the time, dickwad". Apparently he wasn't homeless. FML

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By Anonymous Pillock - 30/04/2014 22:25 - United Kingdom

Today, I came across a street musician. He looked extremely well-fed already, but his music was pretty good, so I gave him some spare change. As soon as I turned away, he started screaming at me for being "cheap", and chased me half a block before running out of breath. FML

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By Jebus - 07/06/2009 20:46 - United States

Today, I walked to Starbucks. On the way a homeless guy asked me for change and I lied and said I had no money. On my way back, Strawberry Frappuccino in hand, the same guy recognized me. He followed me for 3 blocks, swearing and yelling at me. FML

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By katiebell - 04/10/2019 12:00

Today, while I was walking home, a homeless man saw me and didn't ask for change, but how much I charged. FML

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By Anonymous - 13/11/2012 11:34 - United States - Macungie

Today, a homeless man asked me for some money to eat. He ate the five dollars I gave him. FML

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By pinkrazrgirl247 - 03/07/2009 06:29 - United States

Today, I was walking down the street, when a man behind me tapped me on the shoulder. He gave a $5 bill and said that he thought I had dropped it. Not having the integrity to turn him down, I took it. I spent the next 20 minutes being chased by a crazy hobo who claimed that it was his. FML

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By dating a fucking psycho - 14/02/2013 20:06 - United States - Hickory

Today, I tried to give some change to a homeless man. My girlfriend pulled me away and ranted about how homeless people are all basically bastards who deserve their misfortune, and that I shouldn't give "our" money away. FML

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By I’m poor too! - 13/07/2021 00:01

Today, I was accosted by an angry homeless man at the recycling center, since I refused to give him my saved up bottles and cans. He insisted that he needed it more and I was "poaching his turf". I needed the recycling to put gas in my car, just to make it to work and hope I could make it back home. FML

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By Anonymous - 23/07/2016 18:36 - United States - Ridgewood

Today, I saw a homeless man on the street and decided to give him the dollar bill I had left in my wallet. He said "Thank you" then as I turned to walk away, he muttered "Cheap-ass cunt". FML

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jailbot 7

Saturday 25 July 2009 22:34

I applaud your snappy comeback! I bet I'd have said the same thing, I mean, what right does a homeless man have to complain about people having no money to give him?

Dashiell 0

Saturday 25 July 2009 22:35

I heard that homeless people in prime locations can make up to $50,000 a year.

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whitedot 0

Saturday 25 July 2009 22:48

hahaha yeah... one homeless man asked me for coke and i told him i didn´t have any, that i could give him water and tuna... he started arguing and making me feel guilty and blah blah...

egaonogenki 0

Saturday 25 July 2009 22:49

How do you say "who comes to this city without money?" and "apparently, you do." in Korean?

um_duh 0

Saturday 25 July 2009 22:53

#27 - if you have issues with a crazy korean just yell out MITCHINAM OP - you rock!

re2K5 0

Saturday 25 July 2009 23:10

You could say something like :"Noo Goo dohn ohp shi yeo gee aeh wah?" for "who comes here without money?" and "neo ha nun geos eo ro bo yeo jee" for "apparently you do". Please forgive the terrible transliteration, and also for Koreans out there, I'm sure there are better ways to say both. However, being a military Korean linguist, I'm not too good with informal speech. :/

re2K5 0

Saturday 25 July 2009 23:15

Ha, you're right! it's also apparently really bad to say "byeong shin" or "ba bo ka tun nom". Even if a Korean local were to make me angry through, I wouldn't blatantly insult them- makes the other military personnel look bad.