"The begger at walgreens on north" written by Paul on estrip.org

07/12/09 01:27 - 67ºF - ID#49273

The begger at walgreens on north

She is always there or around it. I am so sick of her and her drama
stories. She is a lying hustler. I honestly have a hard time not
spitting on her at this point.

I really hate it when you see the people fall for her shit and give
her money.

Today's story is it's the Taste of Buffalo and the police are just
arresting people . She makes it sound so Nazi state without any
context.

When that doesn't work she pulls out her tried and true story of the
decade: her daughter unexpectantly had a baby she wasn't ready for
and that she needs to get to sisters to deal with it.

She has been telling that very same story since I used to come here in
high school. Either she has 1000 grandchildren or she is a liar. I
vote liar.

Its sad because scumbag, scamartists like her give the city a bad rap
and on top of that make people care less when there is someone that is
really begging for money and really needs it.

The one woman even went back to her car to get more money, what a
sucker. I mean she is definately a hustler, but even if she wasn't,
that is what social welfare programs are for. To help people and to
keep it legit and for that we already pay a lot.

I feel like for the amount of times I have had to put up with that
story, she owes me. Just to be clear she is the one on the stripped
shirt.

dimartiste writes at 11:50:31 07/15/09 - Comment #50031: Beggars - I used to have to talk with them daily on Elmwood. No matter what business I worked for over the years there is always one. Yes. I agree with you. Unfortunately this is there supplemental income. Yes, you are right. "There is a sucker born every minute" (the circus guy said that) Buffalo really is about friendly neighbors, unfortunately most beggars need to learn some protocol. On Elmwood I was like if you asked me once then you are done for the day. Most of them respected that, learning that it depended on my mood. Most of the time on only gave them food. Now I am kind of hard hearted about most of their hard luck stories. They may have been true at one time, but some stories are not good repeat business. That's when I wonder if they are "Day Passes" released from the phsyc center.

I haven't seen her recently as we have switched our family meds back to Wegman's.

OK - I am totally horrible for this, but I also start giving them a hard luck story of my own back.

I really did have a hard time a while back. I was on welfare and couldn't make ends meet. I was so angry how they treated me downtown. Hell I have been paying taxes since I could work. When this beggar came up and asked if I could spare a dollar and I let him have it. My anger at the system, at my roommates for screwing me over with the bills, at the eviction notice, at the bills being run up in my name, at my counselor who acted like I barely could read or write instead of an eduated person with a degree - I rambled on and on and on and on. For every problem he could figure out he heard he handed me a dollar saying he was sorry! That day I cried. Now, I can laugh.

tinypliny writes at 08:35:03 07/12/09 - Comment #49951: Oh man, you are right. I speed-walk in and out because I have small personal record going about how fast I can get milk home. The current record stands at 14 minutes (to and fro, with 3 deep cashier queues).

tinypliny writes at 08:32:43 07/12/09 - Comment #49950: HAHAHA... for some reason Vincent, that is hilarious!

vincent writes at 08:17:58 07/12/09 - Comment #49949: Suckers!

But in actuality that happens everywhere just about every city. I used to have this conversation with co-workers in Canada about the differences in panhandlers between our two countries. We basically decided that Canadian panhandlers were more polite and had some semblance of manners while US panhandlers were belligerent, crude and demanding.

paul writes at 04:44:44 07/12/09 - Comment #49946: My guess is that you walk too fast for it to happen. You have to saunter a bit for her to start the story.

tinypliny writes at 03:15:29 07/12/09 - Comment #49943: I go there all the time and I have never seen this woman...

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

07/11/09 08:59 - 71ºF - ID#49266

Shrimp on mushroom caps

These shrimp on top of mushroom caps at the taste if buffalo were so
delicious. I only wish I didn't have a cold so I could have enjoyed
the food more. I spent the rest of the day in bed.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: movies

07/11/09 08:58 - 71ºF - ID#49265

Geese at Forrest lawn and bruno

We took (e:terry)'s mom to see Forrest lawn after seeing Bruno. That movie was hilarious but totally innapropriate for just about every
demographic. Glad it wasn't my mom there, lol.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: christians

07/11/09 08:55 - 71ºF - ID#49264

The Christian pamphleters

I was amazed to see they are now using children to hand out their
flyers. The one in this picture was actually one of the older ones.
There was seriously one that was like 9, more than 20 ft away from his
dad who was not even looking in his direction. If I had children I
would never leave alone in such a big crowd.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: health

07/10/09 11:43 - 71ºF - ID#49258

I am sick?

So, I think I am getting sick with a real bad with a sore throat. It feels like the beginning of strep throat which is weird because I can't ever recall being sick at this time of year. It's always march and October. So that terifies me that it is swine flu or something.

I guess (e:enknot) was sick last week and he is not dead yet so let's hope it's all good and just a "summer cold"

The dilema. Because of my unbearable seasonal alergies, I have been on Claritin since the beginnng of may. It is the only thing that works for me. the level of allergies I have is worse than being sick. If I stop taking it I will become sicker than hell with allergies on top of being sick. But if I continue to take it, does it Lowers my immunity by blocking antihistamine production. Seriously, I just need to move away from allergy land.

After some research it seems like you can take claritan while sick so I guess that's good? The whole hing is really a myatey to me.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/10/09 01:58 - 81ºF - ID#49249

Thursday in the square with siblings

Had a great evening at Thursday in the square with the siblings,
(e:libertad), and (e:heidi). It was packed with people and I packed
myself full of beer.

Afterwards, we went to lagniappes and I had some crab cakes. Then
over to staples.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: drama

07/10/09 12:51 - 64ºF - ID#49245

Taliban vs faggot

At the corner of deleware and Chippewa across from coulter bay, this crazy ass black dude was screaming about the Taliban, at the top of his lungs for like 5 minutes straight. I thought it was my duty to call the police so I dialed 911.

In the mean time a crazier white dude showed up and started screaming about his girlfriend, kicking the wall at the gas station, etc. They clashed which led to whole a nigger, faggot, nigger, faggot, blah, blah, drama.

Then more guys got involved, so like 7 minutes later a whole bunch of police showed up but at that point I had to go. I am so curious what happend.

The really interesting part was the exchange with 911. The woman acted like I was freakin out when I thought I was talking very calmly. It made me think in a crisis style emergency they wouldn't be able to understand a thing.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/08/09 11:35 - 64ºF - ID#49240

Shooting at Bidwell?

There are like 10 cop cars and state troopers surrounding a mini van
that appears to have holes shot in the drivers door. I couldn't get a
better picture but it right at the corner of Bidwell and elmwood
across from Room? Anyone know the details, I never saw so many police
in one spot.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/08/09 09:45 - 66ºF - ID#49238

Terry's almost 30th Birthday

My mother insisted on celebrating (e:terry)'s 30th birthday a month and
a half early because his mom and sister are in town. He doesn't want
to be 30, so it's pretty funny.

She made carrot cake which is his fave and decorated it with hand
laminated beers. Yes, she has a personal laminator.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/08/09 07:44 - 68ºF - ID#49236

Funannas are yumtastic

We went back to Dug's Dive on the Buffalo harbor and this time we had
some fun-anas. It's basically a frozen banana on a sucker stick.
They have a bunch of dippings and then a bunch of coatings you can
choose from including cookie crumbles, sprinles and pecans.

I had peanut butter with pecan topping. They are only $3.